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Ministers urged to protect budget for ‘strategic priorities’ as government funding cuts over past decade place higher burden on graduates

New flagship university-based research centres may signal end of intentional sidelining of pedagogy academics

University to shutter course less than a year after it launched, despite vice-chancellor’s commitment to training next generation of black academics

Uncertainty remains on whether students would be locked out of classrooms mid-semester if a university folded, education committee warns

Vice-chancellor defends deep job losses at embattled institution, insisting restructure will help it adapt to changed environment in higher education

‘Stark’ regional inequalities persist despite massive expansion of higher education globally, finds Unesco

Regulator imposes extra conditions on institution following probe into computing courses that Northampton says was based on outdated data

Case against university being thrown out ‘swings pendulum’ back towards harassment protections, says legal expert

Institutions on the continent much more susceptible to government interference owing to reliance on state funding, report warns

Automation may be used as an excuse to cut further posts, experts warn, even if it isn’t capable of replacing academics

The European Research Council’s swiftly withdrawn proposal to limit resubmissions was decried as an own goal for the â€˜Champions League’ of research. But how else can the pressure be eased on referees? And is excellence still tenable as the sole criterion of selections? Jack Grove reports 

Students on languages, medicine and veterinary sciences courses also report far higher incidents of harassment than sector average