Make research funding more flexible, says German science council
Country’s top policy advisory body calls for project funding to be more generous with fewer constraints, as institutions’ budgets swell
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University referrals to Prevent ‘strikingly low’, says review
Controversial counter-terror scheme widely shunned by academics despite risks to universities from extremist groups
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US universities test limits of abortion bans
Amid a still-evolving patchwork of laws and interpretations after Supreme Court ruling, campuses are taking risks and pushing boundaries
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Rapid block teaching uptake ‘dispels sector inertia myth’
Snap adoption of new teaching model, after half a century of gestation, shows that universities can get things done quickly
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Nursing and teaching hardest hit as UK applications drop
Total number of applications to study for a degree in UK down by 2.3 per cent at January deadline
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Scottish access commissioner eyes ‘mature conversation’ on target
Government-set access target ‘can’t become a burden’ and there is ‘debate to be had’ on its metrics, says academic and ex-football referee
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Decisive action must follow the warm words about degree apprenticeships
More support and less complex regulation will allow the hybrid qualifications to flourish across more English institutions and sectors, says Dan Lally
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Ministers win free speech bill vote on right to sue universities
Minister calls statutory tort an essential step to ‘cultural transformation’
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How a soaring deficit brutalised UEA’s modernising ambitions
Institution famed for its brutalist campus has paid price for bad luck and bad decisions, staff say
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Chinese universities criticised over continuing Covid controls
Academic emphasises need for transparency as institutions forced into U-turns on restrictions
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Australian universities funded for unsolicited places
Warning of ‘stranded funding’ as bureaucrats bend the rules of a programme with too many goals
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University of Phoenix’s two-year bid for a buyer revealed
Once the largest US online university, for-profit has been arguing without luck that it’s a last best chance to enter fast-growing world of adult training
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A 10 per cent UK pay rise would risk the livelihoods of many post-92 staff
The ‘sector’ may be able to afford more than the current offer, but many individual universities cannot, says Peter Sloane
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Students trapped following deadly Turkey earthquakes
Universities join rescue mission after 7.8 magnitude tremor strikes near Gaziantep