Education research in UK universities requires a “significant uplift” in funding, say The British Academy & The Royal Society timeshighereducation.com/news/education… via Jack Grove

Leading archaeologist and husband allegedly created 'culture of fear' in Dutch university for over 30 years, including manipulation, bullying, and mishandling of human remains timeshighereducation.com/news/leading-a… via @helen_packer

UK ministers will have to “own” fact that changes to graduate visa route will have rapid impact on universities as perilous nature of some institutions’ finances can no longer plausibly be denied, sector leaders warn timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-govern… via Thomas Williams

Nine of 10 New South Wales universities ends 2023 in deficit - buoyant international education earnings fail to outweigh soaring costs timeshighereducation.com/news/new-south… via John Ross

Some ethnic minority researchers giving up on UKRI funding, says PVC, as number of black PIs applying halves in a year timeshighereducation.com/news/black-aca… via Rosa Ellis

Australian universities may already have reached the international enrolment caps proposed by the federal government, stoking fears that they will struggle to stave off deficits. timeshighereducation.com/news/australia…

Decline in funding for research with and about China has coincided with an almost complete absence of China specialists on the ARC’s College of Experts, from which grant reviewers are drawn. timeshighereducation.com/news/china-res…

Scores of jobs set to go in London South Bank restructure, London South Bank University UCU threatens strike action as cuts will leave university 'a shell of its former self' timeshighereducation.com/news/scores-jo…

Stalling domestic recruitment coupled with sharp decline in international students could plunge more than 80 per cent of UK universities into deficit in less than three years, says The Office for Students (OfS) timeshighereducation.com/news/recruitme… via Thomas Williams

'Now is the time to build a funding model that is fit for purpose, instead of cobbling together a system based on short-sighted policy decisions and driven by migration-orientated political objectives,' says Portsmouth v-c Graham Galbraith.
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Sharp rise in complaints from non-EU students pushes number of grievances received by England and Wales’ HE ombudsman OIA to all-time high timeshighereducation.com/news/overseas-… via Jack Grove

Nigerian PhD student facing potential deportation after doctoral studies halted by illness and breakdown in relations with supervisor - plight highlights precarity of international students who complain about course, says UnisResistBorders #WearAMask #BordersKillKnowledge timeshighereducation.com/news/ill-niger… via Jack Grove

Why has policing of US campus protests gone so wrong? Ideal of student-oriented officers, arising from 1960s-era protests, appears to have lost ground to profession’s more enduring imperatives, writes Paul Basken timeshighereducation.com/news/why-has-p…

Decision on whether the UK will retain its graduate visa could come in “the next week”, says MAC chair Brian Bell timeshighereducation.com/news/decision-… via Thomas Williams

Is the UK’s graduate visa being used for immigration instead of education? What does the Migration Advisory Committee say about how the visa works? Paddy Jack explains everything you need to know as the MAC publishes its highly anticipated review
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Sector reaction to MAC report: ministers must now give “categorical reassurance that graduate visa is here to stay”, says vivienne stern Universities UK timeshighereducation.com/news/v-cs-now-… also featuring Russell Group MillionPlus University Alliance

All the key points from the MAC review of the UK graduate visa summarised here by Paddy Jack (no paywall) timeshighereducation.com/news/mac-repor…

Fairly astonishing to see MAC conclude that ministers' claim that majority of graduate visa switchers go into care work is 'incorrect' - in fact figure is about 20% timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-should…

Graduate visa is 'not undermining integrity and quality of UK HE system', instead it helps universities make up for financial losses on domestic students and research, MAC review concludes. Now will ministers listen? timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-should… via Thomas Williams

UCU staff @uniteucu vote to strike over allegations of workplace racism timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-union… via Paddy Jack