Latest Home Office data adds weight to universities' case that visa restrictions have done their job of bringing numbers down - and further reforms could do significant damage timeshighereducation.com/news/dependant…

Here's the latest from Times Higher Education as police arrest dozens of protesters at Columbia and violence flares at UCLA timeshighereducation.com/news/police-ar…

Students occupy Warwick piazza over university’s ‘Israel ties’ timeshighereducation.com/news/students-… via Paddy Jack

David Maguire named as UEA v-c on permanent basis - halfway through interim appointment timeshighereducation.com/news/david-mag…

UK HE needs new regulator charged with protecting financial resilience of universities, says The British Academy president timeshighereducation.com/news/regulator…

Hundreds of Queen Mary academics tell it boycott Hebrew University of Jerusalem over detention of Palestinian scholar Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian timeshighereducation.com/news/calls-boy… via Paddy Jack

Academics with access to sensitive research in UK universities could be required to undergo security vetting, ministers say timeshighereducation.com/news/security-…

How a leading private university has been drawn into the corruption claims against the Spanish PM's wife - which could trigger his resignation timeshighereducation.com/news/universit…

University staff should be given training in how to pronounce students’ names to make learners from diverse backgrounds feel more welcome in the classroom, say Dr Jane Pilcher Hannah Deakin-Smith
& Chloe Roesch timeshighereducation.com/news/call-trai… via Paddy Jack

Researchers applying for Wellcome grants will have to explain how they plan to reduce energy consumption, reuse equipment and recycle waste products timeshighereducation.com/news/energy-sa… via Jack Grove

Weakening exchange rates across South-east Asia could hit international student demand, experts warn timeshighereducation.com/news/south-eas… via Helen Packer

Aboriginal staff at Murdoch University to get 'cultural workload allowance' of £5K a year. 'It's only fair that they get recognised and compensated.' timeshighereducation.com/news/extra-pay… via John Ross

More than 50 UK universities now making redundancies, and even some sector leaders are questioning whether cuts are going too far, too fast timeshighereducation.com/news/too-hard-… via Thomas Williams

Here's the cover of this week's Times Higher Education #tomorrowspaperstoday

Issues with governance and sector relationships hindering Alan Turing Institute in its goal of being UK's national centre for AI and data science, review finds timeshighereducation.com/news/alan-turi… via Paddy Jack

Close the franchising 'back door' to student loan fraud in England, says Public Accounts Committee timeshighereducation.com/news/franchisi… via Jack Grove

Leeds bans staff and students from social media posts which are 'unfairly disparaging' of university, but union warns this could breach free speech rights timeshighereducation.com/news/leeds-ban… via Thomas Williams

New visa processing arrangements favour the richest universities – which already dominate international enrolments – while encouraging student flows from China, the dominant source country. timeshighereducation.com/news/australia…

UK university staff and students more likely to describe themselves as LGB+ than general population, data shows - John Armstrong & Professor Alice Sullivan say on this basis affirmative action to expand representation further 'may be unlawful' timeshighereducation.com/news/universit…

Men more likely to evade academic service tasks, such as organising seminars, supervising PhDs or participating in committees, while women feel obliged to take them on, find Margaretha Järvinen & Nanna Mik-Meyer timeshighereducation.com/news/how-men-g… via Emily Dixon