New Zealand universities face a bleak choice between rejecting eager students or shouldering much of the expense of educating them, after authorities warned that funding was unlik ...

Australia’s third smallest university is taking the contest to its big-city counterparts with a “brand campaign” urging students to “stop worshipping sandstone”. The Uni ...

Staff at the University of Sheffield have voted to go back on strike after managers refused to rule out compulsory ...

Higher education wants to hire academics with real-world experience – yet the identity shift required often goes unnoticed.

From subtle undermining to overt hostility, misogyny is rearing its ugly head in higher education classrooms, fuelled by ...

The academic workforce at London South Bank University is set to be divided into two “career pathways” in a move unions fear will “degrade the terms and conditions of all staff”.

The University and College Union (UCU) has written to the government demanding ministers protect access to the Teachers’ Pension Scheme (TPS) for university staff, warning faili ...

Cardiff University recorded the largest underlying deficit for 2024-25 at £36 million, followed by Swansea University at £31 million. The University of Wales Trinity St David, the University of South ...

Australia’s government supports the “agenda” of its landmark research review but will not rush consideration of the recommendations, a Canberra forum has heard. Science mini ...

The Russell Group has accused the government of making “misleading” claims to justify its policy of halting student visa applications from several countries. The Home Offices ...

Local students risk being “overlooked” by elite UK universities as they try to meet their widening participation targets, ...

Universities must shift their approach to widening participation from a “cure” to a “prevention” model to avoid failing disadvantaged students, a new report has warned. Th ...