University funding/finances

Fearing pressure on the humanities, professor runs the numbers and sees his elite institution in danger of falling short

Country must address socio-economic and regional inequalities, UN committee advises

University says current cohorts will be the last, blaming declining student numbers

Institution blames inflation and rising pay and pension contributions

Newly appointed trustees of small liberal arts college want to revitalise facilities with funding request worth $571,000 per student

Shitij Kapur fears country’s world-leading universities face ‘triangle of sadness’ as problems with student debt, university finances and staff discontent pile up

April’s rise in employers’ contributions to Teachers’ Pension Scheme could leave modern universities unable to compete, leaders say

Republican front runner lifts from DeSantis playbook in idea for free online alternative to ‘woke’ universities, connecting to concerns on endowments and access

Changes to visas and foundation years likely to hit income, deans fear, with big repercussions for parent universities

Aberdeen’s proposal to close language degree programmes might save money but it will impoverish international understanding, says Charles Burdett

Centre for Antiracist Research doesn’t have obvious funding flaws, but celebrity activist still leaves university questioning its Floyd-era hiring coup

Sally Mapstone on why university funding problems are too urgent for ‘something more radical’ or a review – and what she really thinks about corduroy

Graduates would pay higher contributions over shorter time to make system ‘self-funding’ and solve funding crisis in proposal from dataHE co-founder

Despite pricey accommodation and high living expenses, learners continue to flock to Korean capital, amid perception of better quality education

Australian researchers propose alternative way of redistributing university resources, but warn it won’t be easy

Most-travelled US university president says sector must make hard calls on priorities, but has too few willing to do so

Research ‘challenges the view that barriers to university education are driven by socio-economic disadvantage’

Academics welcome the move, but some are concerned over displacement of island’s students from its top institutions

Leaders argue that integrating operations will strengthen specialisms, but students give plans a frosty reception

Party stalls even on limited changes like stepped loan repayments, while deeper reform might only come ‘in return for value-for-money case’

McGill and province’s other English-language universities see dire threats to their finances and diversity

Australia’s proposed international education levy is replete with policy contradictions, new paper argues

Pennsylvanian liberal arts school planning to reduce, and possibly eliminate, adjunct and visiting assistant professor positions, faculty fear

The challenge for universities seeking greater openness, innovation and collaboration is they can’t do it on their own, say Ian Matthias and Mike Boxall

Lord Robbins’ review of British HE has had a 60-year legacy, but it ducked the question that looms largest over today’s sector, says Nick Hillman 

Shadow education secretary avoids mention of the word ‘fees’ in conference speech comments

Beijing is ‘actively seeking to deter many young people from pursuing a degree’ to stem graduate unemployment, researcher says

Voters have little enthusiasm for paying higher taxes to fund universities, new polling finds

Matt Western calls sustainable sector funding ‘a big ask’ as two vice-chancellors back graduate tax

While universities bankroll more research from their own pockets they exercise less discretion about the things they study

With tuition fees no longer an issue of contention, higher education reverts to bit-part role in forthcoming election

Vice-chancellors express ‘near unanimous’ support for lowering costs and restoring benefits, and want it to happen more quickly than scheduled

With deadlines rushed and then missed, even the straightforward work of Australia’s major higher education review is looking anything but

New Olympic Park campus will host one of UK’s largest universities and add thousands more jobs and students. What can it achieve?

Sussex chief challenges ‘uninspected belief’ that additional cash for student learning – including grants for Covid-hit generation – is politically unthinkable

Accord panel should take note that fee changes ‘don’t change behaviour’, researcher urges

Four years after massive budget cuts, enrolment starts perking up, but with doubts that it can help the remote state recover a dire exodus of talent

Folasade Ogunsola discusses her country’s battle with brain drain and universities’ search for ‘creative’ ways to combat funding shortfalls

Schumacher College, which is run by the Dartington Trust, delayed the start of several courses by one day

As arguments for cost sharing in England advance, questions linger over what September changes mean for government-graduate balance

Vassar College faces lawsuit brought by current and former faculty members as gender pay gap across US higher education widens

Review of Devon-based Schumacher College launched in drive to operate trust with ‘more sustainable approach’

The gulf is growing between self-perpetuating middle management and the people who ‘produce the value’, Australian symposium hears

If Australia proceeds with a levy on international students’ fees, the money should only be used for students’ benefit, representative body argues

While faculty, students and politicians protest, biggest US four-year system notes that it remains major bargain by nationwide measures

‘New Conservatives’ say young people ‘do not have the right to study Mickey Mouse courses at the taxpayer’s expense’

Non-elite institutions have fuelled recent technological successes – with IIT graduates ‘few and far between’ at India’s space agency

‘Punitive’ requirements could make admissions from under-represented groups too risky, Australian university representatives warn

New research finds 20 per cent of universities still accepting cash for tuition fees and accommodation costs, despite risks posed by criminal gangs

As their flagship campus draws national alarm, professors protest Gordon Gee’s move to slash positions and programmes

Labour should push for cross-party review but take lead if Tories unwilling to ‘put needs of UK first’, says former education secretary

Dame Sally Mapstone says universities ‘must earn’ increased public investment

For university students, living matters as much as learning. Piling pressure on local private rental markets helps no one, says Lorna Fox O’Mahony

Report by London Economics finds sector supports more than 750,000 jobs across country

While inclusivity efforts have focused on boosting admissions from under-represented groups, targets could also be achieved by adjusting overall enrolments downwards

Russell Group study says average top-up of undergraduate education costs could reach £5,000 per student per year by end of decade

Judges ask university to make changes to its proposal, including boosting international capacity and adjusting down expected growth figures

Things go from bad to worse for student-starved sector, with unexpended funds recycled one month and repossessed the next

Disappointment comes months after v-c told alumni that government funding was ‘becoming extremely inadequate’

Experts counter analysis suggesting that mismanagement, not declining government subsidies, is cause of financial woes