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Indian branch campuses will not fill Australia’s looming China gap

Universities have 10 years to prepare for China’s demographic crunch. They need to start now, say Craig Jeffrey, Michael Simmonds and Donald Speagle

Scrap visa salary discounts for PhD holders, UK told

No evidence that people with a doctorate experience ‘significant wage penalties’, finds committee’s review of key visa route

UKRI funding shake-up hands big rise to priority research areas

New targeted model will see funder split budget across four “buckets”, with money for curiosity-driven work remaining broadly flat

UK aims to widen access to Erasmus after agreeing to join in 2027

Confirmed deal to cost UK £570 million in first year, with ministers targeting 100,000 participants including apprentices and adult learners

Australasian universities strike deal with Elsevier

‘Significantly improved’ agreement with world’s biggest scholarly publisher averts new year shutdown

Csiro funding lifeline ‘will not save researchers’ jobs’

Australian science lobbyists pin hopes on research and development review, saying ‘one-off’ mini-budget funding boost will not compensate for years of decline

Trump restricts travel from 20 more countries

New bodies mooted as leadership appointments come under spotlight

Senator warns universities have ‘few levers’ to pull when things go badly – citing ‘havoc’ at the Australian National University under former vice-chancellor

Elwen Evans: ex-lawyer on turning around Wales’ oldest university

Facing a £12 million deficit and a beloved but underutilised rural campus, former barrister who led murder cases says she took lessons from legal career when attempting to modernise an institution...

Google Scholar’s citation errors skew h-index leaderboards

Thousands of mistakenly awarded citations left uncorrected highlight the perils of leaving profile curation to academics, say critics

England’s free speech rules need a complaints scheme urgently

To give the law teeth, the government must commit to promptly implementing the promised mechanism for flagging breaches, says Abhishek Saha

UK set to rejoin EU’s Erasmus+ student exchange scheme

Westminster government reportedly agrees reassociation to Europe’s flagship student exchange programme five years after departing under Brexit

Coventry ‘on path to recovery’ despite £59 million deficit

Newcastle and Bradford also in the red as UK universities continue to publish their annual accounts

Search data shows interest in studying in Western Europe surging

Spain, Italy, Germany and France rivalling traditional destinations such as Australia and Canada as recruitment patterns shift

Exam board fined over issues with online English language tests

More than 9,000 results revoked after Pearson found students had been getting others to pass tests for them