Politics

Government pressured for concessions to avert defeat on amendment to HE Bill 

Universities New Zealand highlights university entry gap between ethnic groups

University’s head of Brexit strategy urges universities to apply pressure over ‘essential’ priority

UUK poll ahead of key Commons vote finds only 26 per cent see students ‘as immigrants’

The American-Hungarian institution proves that learning through diversity is not an impossible dream, says Marvin Lazerson

Global academic leaders have found themselves powerless against Hungary’s government

University of Gibraltar vice-chancellor Daniella Tilbury reflects on how Brexit negotiations are awakening old insecurities

The world is dotted with institutions that have strong US links, but they often have domestic opponents, who may be watching the case of CEU closely

Nearly a million households expected to benefit from deal covering SUNY and CUNY systems 

Sociologist is reportedly still blocked from leaving the country

V-c warns that European Court of Justice role in grant disputes makes UK association ‘difficult to see’

US academics might find a warm word for the president if he forces universities to become financially disciplined and sustainable, say Jose Garcia, Don Barwick and Joseph Garcia

Parliament approves legislation that institution says would force it out of Budapest

Susan Michie calls for a radical upgrade in the use of social science to tackle poor public health

Critics fear global event risks ‘trivialising and politicising’ research

Universities warn they may be unable to meet staffing and facilities costs alone

Next Universities Australia chair sees big role for universities in shift to post-industrial society

All three of England’s for-profit universities owned in Netherlands

Universities must play a major part in the emergence of the new technical education sector envisaged in the chancellor’s recent Budget, says Andy Westwood

George Soros-funded institution could be ‘first victim’ of increasingly illiberal world order, observers say

Union calls for universities to remove barriers to peaceful protest

John Morgan finds sector statements on ‘momentous day’ taste a little bland

Evidence for the harm done by including students in net migration figures is clear, says Huw Owen

Challenger to Merkel is popular, despite attacks on his educational record

Holyrood free tuition pledge puts pressure on rest of UK to guarantee support

Without more conservative perspectives in the academy, lawmakers will increasingly ignore and potentially defund social science, says Musa al-Gharbi

While learning to work quickly is a useful life skill, a greater gift to students is permitting unhurried excursions and digressions, says Shahidha Bari

Higher education funding from US state governments has always been volatile, but reforms to healthcare could put public universities’ income under even greater pressure, says Will Doyle

V-c counters that institutions will ‘inevitably’ plan for overseas campuses after referendum

Military might and border walls are of more importance than compassion in Trump’s America, says John Fea

Minister emphasises transnational education, sidestepping mention of Home Office visa policy

Minister's speech disrupted at event aimed at finding solutions to sector challenges

Universities Australia urges government to recognise sector's role in foreign policy review

We must make it clearer to UK-based European scholars that the UK higher education sector wishes to remain open, says Sir Keith Burnett

Sector expert predicts dissent will be crushed when Lords amendment reaches Commons

Alternative for Germany also wants to end funding for gender studies, saying discipline is not a serious subject

Leave-supporting MP challenged in debate with King’s College London academic

University of Waterloo recruits British academics ‘worried about future’ after referendum

Interviews in progress for Office for Students chief executive, with v-cs among those shortlisted

Life science is a big part of the UK government’s industrial strategy, but neglecting basic research will drive top researchers abroad and threaten the flow of translatable discoveries, says Philippe Froguel

Universities should consider building ‘families’ of schools and colleges to facilitate easy transfer between different levels of education, says David Phoenix

South Sudan may be racked by famine, civil war and corruption, but the probity and effectiveness of its largely Western-educated vice-chancellors are providing the rest of the public sector with considerable food for thought, says Kuyok Abol Kuyok

There is a growing recognition in Australia that the future of higher education must be considered alongside what happens to its struggling technical and further education sector.

Matthew Reisz in Bogotá examines how quickly a TACTIC nation can become a more effective player in global higher education

Role of Ewha Womans University protests in Park Geun-hye scandal highlighted

Vote hailed as ‘notable victory’ in battle to remove overseas learners from net migration targets

Sir Mark Walport believes that the amended HE Bill will assist him in making the UKRI the best research funding agency in the world

Lords may insist on changes if they scent chance of overturning UK government’s slim Commons majority

Expert on EU warns academics against a ‘Brussels monopoly’ over how they research the union

John Cater maligns the misuse of an NSS that can offer genuine insight into university teaching

‘It's a clear commitment and we want to deliver,’ says shadow chancellor

Students and staff raise concerns about impact of more two-year degrees

Increasing the number of fast-track degrees may devalue the currency of UK undergraduate courses in Europe, warns Jack Grove

But UUK calls for universities to be given more support over working courses

The ‘indigenisation’ of Canada’s academy has had many positives, but some scholars are uneasy about universities’ reluctance to challenge native beliefs about the world, say Rodney Clifton and Gabor Csepregi

When the US primary season threw up numerous examples of weak and fallacious argument, Michael Ventimiglia thought his time had come. But subsequent events left him grappling with his discipline’s apparent impotence

Cramming study into the shortest possible time will impoverish the student experience and drive an even greater wedge between research-enabled permanent staff and the growing underclass of flexible teaching staff, says Tom Cutterham

Peers back further amendments to Higher Education and Research Bill

Chancellor Philip Hammond allocates previously announced industrial strategy funding