Politics

Lord Stern's warning adds to concerns about a brain drain from British universities in the wake of the referendum result

Greater financial uncertainty caused by the EU referendum result should lead to a rethink of proposed reforms, says Labour

Ahead of the HE and Research Bill's second reading, vice-chancellors Steve Smith and Edward Peck explain why they think reform is necessary 

The TEF will divide universities into 'institutional sheep and goats' and then starve the goats, writes Dorothy Bishop on the eve of the HE Bill's second reading

Keith Burnett explains why the University of Sheffield's activities in the Yorkshire town of Rotherham might offer many lessons for the government's new education team

Scrapping of BIS prompts warnings that universities may lose influence in Whitehall

Johnson survives Theresa May’s reshuffle

Concerns raised over splitting research and universities, while Theresa May’s focus on ‘industrial strategy’ prompts questions

Former higher education minister Bill Rammell, now vice-chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire, on why he is pleased that schools and universities have been united in one department

Sector aims for stronger collaboration with schools in new department

The new education secretary has much to get to grips with as she arrives at the Department for Education

Theresa May’s decision to put schools and higher education together won’t automatically lead to closer collaboration, writes Chris Havergal

Justine Greening is new education secretary, while BIS reshaped

Former UN secretary general insists that scholars have to make politicians listen in order to influence change

Jeremy Corbyn urged to investigate claims of abuse much more actively and openly

Vice-chancellors argue that exercise should not go beyond pilot stage because of ‘significant instability’

Minister invites researchers to send ‘concrete’ examples that UK academics are being stopped from bidding for EU grants 

David Feldman describes his experiences of being ‘misrepresented in the public sphere’

The UCU's Sally Hunt warns that if people from the EU no longer feel welcome in UK universities, the damage to our international academic reputation will be near fatal

Impact of EU withdrawal on UK universities ‘more nuanced’ than some believe, says Nick Hillman

Her Home Office record and previous views on universities give clues as to what we might expect from Theresa May, writes Emran Mian – and it's not all bad news

In Home Office and shadow education brief, Ms May has long history with higher education

For-profit college stripped of right to receive public funds

Scottish students less likely to be offered a place than rest-of-UK and non-EU applicants, according to watchdog

Universities have a European union far older than many nation states. We must not lose sight of that in the aftermath of Brexit, says Howard Hotson

Rising immigration-related costs and lack of employer support send an unwelcoming message to international staff, says Jason Danely

We need quick agreements to mitigate the damage that UK exit will have on the European academy, argues Bernd Huber

UK alone could not match ERC prestige, senior Swiss research figure tells MPs

Like the UK’s referendum on the EU, the US presidential race looks set to split the population between graduates and non-graduates

Survey also finds cases of foreign scientists opting against taking up UK jobs

Mark Griffin has a European School education in common with Boris Johnson, but it is fair to say it has not left them seeing eye to eye

What the UK can learn from examples of non-EU nations in Horizon 2020

Horizon 2020 picture unchanged, writes science, research and innovation commissioner Carlos Moedas

An often anti-intellectual Leave campaign has triumphed, leaving scholars wondering why so many appear to distrust them

But research leaders in the UK say their European counterparts are already freezing them out when it comes to applying for EU money

UCL event considers the responses of anthropologists and artists to the refugee crisis

Students are dangerously unclear on the value of their high-ticket education, says David Palfreyman. We urgently need ‘contracts to educate’

Former universities minister sees Chinese branch campuses as ‘prize’ for UK

Brexit vote leads some European researchers to conclude joint bids with UK academics are now too risky

Minister backs continued UK success in EU’s Horizon 2020 and pledges to press ahead with HE bill

Kerstin Mey has worked in UK higher education for more than 20 years and fears what the referendum means for her adopted academic home

There was huge support for Remain from university staff – but the public begged to differ

Joanna Williams voted Leave, and has been left disappointed by the academy’s reaction to the EU referendum result

Sector warned that Brexit vote may also leave ‘big question mark’ over current funding

Nadine Muller has lived and worked in higher education since 2005, and has seen big changes in recent years

Europe's higher education sector must not be pushed apart by the result of the EU referendum, says Keith Burnett

The government needs to act fast to maintain British excellence in the sciences and humanities in an era of Brexit, they say

Leave vote triggers warnings of recruitment problems and of UK academics seeking better opportunities elsewhere

Brexit leaves the UK in a 'Breaking Bad' scenario, as a terminal Britain struggles to be great again, writes Willy Maley

Jamie Martin, former adviser to Michael Gove, believes the Brexit vote represents the dawning of a bright new era for British universities

Possible domino effect could weaken Europe as an academic powerhouse, says Maastricht University’s Martin Paul, but collaboration can and must continue

Will UK universities be seen internationally as less concerned with the world? Ronald Barnett considers the EU referendum result

For many working-class people, this was a referendum not on the EU but on their quality of life, writes Lisa Mckenzie

UUK moves to reassure sector, saying it will lobby government on EU staff and students being able to ‘continue to work and study at British universities’

Sir David Greenaway is ‘peddling self-interest’ when he says the UK’s universities are better off in the EU, but he believes the facts back him up, too

Academics and activists to explore how the History Workshop movement can still inspire new historical research and political thinking

UUK warns that EU funding 'goes beyond money' after open letter from pro-Leave ministers

Data reveal that countries such as China and Saudi Arabia produce only a tiny fraction of the history and political science papers of democracies

Meanwhile government says fees could be a maximum of nearly £12,000 by 2025-26 under TEF rises with inflation

Our data team’s modelling of the potential teaching excellence framework results shows the Russell Group losing out to a new elite