Alison Wolf: ministers ‘increasingly aware’ of HE growth failings Universities unable to deliver governments’ ‘unrealistic expectations’ of prosperity and social mobility, says English funding review member By John Morgan 26 March
Scientific outcry as Norway approves loans for astrology courses Oslo-based programmes win accreditation after regulator rules there is a "field of work" astrologers can enter after graduation By David Matthews 26 March
Lee Elliot Major: university access heading for ‘perfect storm’ UK’s first professor of social mobility says institutions must focus on outreach activities that are proven to work By Anna McKie 26 March
Cardiff’s German link aims to protect funding access post-Brexit New partnership with the University of Bremen will involve the cross-affiliation of staff By Ellie Bothwell 25 March
Working-class academics ‘face discrimination throughout careers’ New association will seek to tackle class-based barriers prevalent in academia, says chair By Jack Grove 25 March
UK business school leaders predict closures and mergers Rapid change in the business school market is ‘almost unmanageable’, according to report from the Chartered Association of Business schools By Anna McKie 25 March
New female principal investigators in UK ‘paid £5K less than men’ Female PIs awarded lower starting salaries than similarly qualified male research group leaders, survey suggests By Jack Grove 23 March
More than quarter of UK HE institutions post deficits Latest sector-wide figures likely to increase concerns about financial sustainability By Simon Baker 22 March
Germany offsets demographic decline with recruitment abroad One in six campuses is shrinking as low birth rates bite, says study By David Matthews 22 March
Nature editor: researchers should be forced to make data public But funders still need to create standardised data repositories for all fields, says Magdalena Skipper By David Matthews 22 March
‘Unparalleled public intellectual’ Mary Warnock dies aged 94 Tributes paid to pioneering philosopher who established guidelines on embryo research in the UK By Anna McKie 21 March
Grade threshold ‘exemptions for poorest’ risk Treasury rift Post-18 education review also said to have looked at proposals to allocate top-up public funding according to subjects’ cost of provision By John Morgan 21 March
