Tertiary education a net loser from New Zealand fee-free reversal
Country’s budget shifts more costs on to students, with money saved from signature policy diverted to other priorities
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£500 million boost to help modernise university estates
National Wealth Fund and Lloyds pledge to back environmental projects that tackle challenges universities face in retrofitting campuses
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Some universities ‘face losing quarter of students’ in next decade
‘Perfectly good’ institutions ‘may fail’ without curbs on recruitment being reintroduced, report argues, ahead of expected dip in youth population
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Franchising crackdown ‘should target rapidly expanding providers’
‘Catch-all’ responses risk driving out high-quality provision, report warns
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R&D tax incentive tweaks ‘will benefit Australian universities’
Changes fall short of comprehensive overhaul prescribed in landmark innovation report but are welcomed anyway
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ERC funding settings are creating a bubble of unsustainable careers
The availability of ERC grants falls off a cliff in your 40s, and in most countries there are few comparable alternatives, says Cristina Muñoz PinedoÂ
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UK research funding bounces back after return to Horizon Europe
Findings strengthen case that UK should agree early access to next framework programme as soon as possible, say v-cs
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Jo Grady calls for ‘emergency’ HE funding review
UCU leader tells annual congress that sector faces threats like never before and issues cannot be fixed under current model
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News Talks podcast: Are mergers the answer to UK HE’s woes?
With King’s College London and Cranfield University planning to join forces, we discuss whether mergers are a sensible way forward for UK universities beset by financial challenges
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Sussex’s plans to cut 200 jobs ‘causing strain and uncertainty’
Union fears remaining staff will face even heavier workloads as 500 jobs have already been lost over past two years
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Eight in 10 say repaying student loan ‘harder than expected’
Survey of current and prospective loan holders finds ‘massive frustration’, with system putting off future students
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Specialist providers buck downturn due to ‘limits on expansion’
Smaller English institutions among those faring best in current financial crisis because they ‘never had the fat years’
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The exiled former professor who could be Venezuela’s next leader
Leopoldo López reflects on how academic writing helped him while in prison, the impact of political interference on his country’s universities and what it will take to rebuild civil society