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British Council discussions are under way, reports Donna Bowater from Rio de Janeiro

Better regional R&D strategies needed to access structural funds, sector told.

State lowers pay hurdle for overseas graduates as mandarin backs student migrants. David Matthews writes

The University Alliance mission group has gained another new member from Million+ while also announcing it is signing a partnership with its Australian counterpart.

Foreign students struggle to gain recognition for Oxford Brookes’ distance-learning qualification.

Premium route to highly trusted sponsor status will cost £8k a year. David Matthews reports

Secretary general points to body’s valuable support for the developing world

Minister of education tells conference his country cannot progress without building foreign partnerships

University vice-chancellor reveals the struggle to educate students who have been brutalised by civil war

For long-term prosperity, universities in war-torn countries must focus on rebuilding infrastructure, conference hears

The Prime Minister has rejected calls to withdraw overseas university students from the government’s target to reduce net migration, saying the move “would not make any difference to our student migration policy”.

The Labour Party has warned that the government’s drive to reduce net migration is choking off the flow of “legitimate university students” while ignoring abuse of the visitor visa route used by English language students.

English cannot be the only acceptable language of scholarship, says Toby Miller. It’s arrogant, impractical and anti-intellectual

Tories may ban overseas students from using NHS

Death of Hugo Chavez unlikely to lead to changes within Venezuela’s ‘isolationist’ university system, says expert

International students add £120.3 million to the Sheffield economy each year, an in-depth analysis has concluded.

Ministers have written to Universities UK to urge the sector to waive the fees of Syrian students who have been impacted by the country’s civil war.

The United Arab Emirates is now “deeply inimical” to university values, according to a lecturer from the London School of Economics and Political Science who was barred from entering the country.

The number of visas issued to overseas students has fallen by a fifth although applications for university student visas have increased by 3 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Office of National Statistics.

But it continues with court case seeking to overturn home secretary’s decision to revoke Highly Trusted Sponsor status last year

Emirate’s flagship aims to integrate partners in postgraduate programmes as part of ‘2030’ plan

Confused political rhetoric on student visas threatens one of the UK’s greatest global assets, says Martin Davidson

State cuts lead sector to impose ‘arbitrary’ student targets. Phil Baty reports from New Orleans

Report identifies ideal environments for UK. Jack Grove reports

Institutions need not subject international students to biometric attendance monitoring, agency reveals

Regent’s College is to take over the American InterContinental University London in what is thought to be the first UK acquisition of a for-profit by a not-for-profit higher education provider.

The government has rejected universities’ calls for overseas students to be withdrawn from the net migrant count, a move that may kill off hopes of securing the change in the current Parliament.

The idea of “education diplomacy” has “really arrived” at the highest levels of American foreign policy, a US State Department official has told an international higher education conference

The University of Gloucestershire has agreed to validate a range of pre-degree courses for international students as part of a new tie-up with private firm INTO University Partnerships.

Ambassador discusses efforts to combat perceptions of hostile sector

Jack Grove on a European institution’s mission to foster cross-border scholarship

New UK-validated for-profit college to sell itself on sun, sea and low fees

‘Change of tone’ will not arrest falling student numbers, critics argue. David Matthew reports

The visa process can trap students in a costly Kafkaesque limbo. To improve life for foreign scholars, the sector should halt its failed lobbying over policy and focus on publicising the misery caused by Byzantine bureaucracy, argues Simeon Underwood

UK universities have announced a series of research partnerships and scholarships to coincide with the prime minister’s visit to India to bolster trade and education links.

Degree programme aims to give graduates edge in job market

Institution aims to make job adverts globally understandable

University’s provision in collaboration with overseas partners ‘requires improvement’, report states

British Academy issues warning over future of language study in UK

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The next European Union research and innovation programme, Horizon 2020, has been allocated a budget of almost €71 billion (£60.4 billion) in an agreement reached on 8 February.

Leaders of the Russell Group of research intensive universities have added their voices to the clamour calling for the European Union’s research and innovation funding to be protected.

The chairs of five parliamentary committees have written to the prime minister urging him to remove overseas university students from the net migrant target, highlighting “unprecedented” consensus between MPs and peers on the move.

Uclan’s Cyprus outpost of ‘particular concern’ to UN secretary general. John Morgan reports

Commissioner warns of heavy R&D cost should UK quit the European Union. Elizabeth Gibney reports

The government’s immigration policy harms student traffic from abroad and the economy, claims Shabana Mahmood

The government is being urged not to implement immigration proposals that it is claimed could have a damaging effect on UK science, engineering and wider academia.

Projects focussing on graphene and research into the human brain have won what the European Commission has called “the largest research excellence award in history”.

Loss of international student licence exacts heavy toll on London Met. David Matthews reports

Research Councils UK plans strategy to benefit from global collaboration. Elizabeth Gibney writes

Loss of international student licence exacts heavy toll on London Met. David Matthews reports

Government rhetoric over visas is to blame for a perception that the UK is not a good place for international students to set up a business, according to a recent survey

Post-study employment changes and a shrinking ‘expat premium’ prompt second thoughts about value of overseas study. Joanna Sugden reports from New Delhi

Scholarship has long been international but the current vision of a ‘worldwide’ academy of rootless student-consumers and national economic competition is as contradictory as it is immoral, argues Thomas Docherty

Mark Harper shares with John Morgan some good and bad news for the sector on immigration policy

Mark Harper shares with John Morgan some good and bad news for the sector on immigration policy