Fluctuating overseas income fuelling ‘winner takes more’ divide
Select group of elite universities increase share of fee money as others lose out, leading experts to fear ‘two-tier’ sector is developing
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Asia ‘will train future academic workforce’ for the world
Western educators are mostly oblivious to a change of guard in higher education, authors of a new ‘mapping exercise’ warn
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Atec appointments ‘signal intent’ on joined-up tertiary system
First leader of sector steward ‘happy to look at fees’ while commission pursues costing analysis
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India’s elections will exacerbate fraught centre-state relations over HE
Beneath the uncompromising rhetoric, however, federal higher education policies are likely to be gradually implemented, says Eldho Mathews
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Direct international recruitment ‘more exposed to policy shocks’
UK universities urged to diversify recruitment methods after steep drops in master’s enrolments
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Self-censoring students ‘fear social ostracism and lower marks’
Immigration, transgender issues and race among the topics many students avoid talking about on campus, OfS survey suggests
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Milburn review: ‘schools pushing too many students to university’
One in 10 out-of-work young people have a degree, major review finds, as UK prime minister warns too many are missing out on ‘high quality alternatives’ to university
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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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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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£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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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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