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Australian university representatives warn of unintended consequences from two-year limit in new workplace relations act

Peers amend controversial legislation owing to prospect of ¡°endless litigation¡±, with ban on non-disclosure agreements also supported

New Korean president¡¯s plan to cut school funding to boost universities amid demographic and economic changes may be ¡®prescient¡¯

Education secretary distances herself from plans to restrict study visas being pushed by No 10

White paper vows to reshape science sector but also shies away from suggested creation of base operating grants for institutions

While unions see applications in the private college sector, Australian universities worry about being forced to enter collective bargaining

Proposals said to have brought opposition from DfE and to have potential to end post-study work rights for graduates of institutions deemed substandard

As political own goals go, threatening to both cap and confine international students to ¡®elite¡¯ institutions was in a class of its own, says David Bell

Concerns over prospect of ¡®endless litigation¡¯ lead to government tabling changes to controversial legislation

Plea comes as European Parliament pledges new focus on academic freedom

Conservative ex-universities ministers aim to force government into rowing back on plans to allow universities to be sued over free speech

German-style political stability and long-term science funding could help mitigate the damage, say Zach Meyers and John Springford

More hardship funding, bigger maintenance loans and restored grants would all complement universities¡¯ efforts, says Sarah Stevens

Politicians and sector leaders respond strongly to reports Westminster government could restrict foreign students to ¡®elite universities¡¯ only

The department¡¯s threat to ban international students from all but the top UK universities is totally counterproductive, says Nick Hillman

Return of grants after almost a decade of loans could create an enrolment surge in an already straining system

After government reaffirms LLE support, post-18 education review chair remains ¡®apprehensive¡¯ while OU v-c sees ¡®big design challenges¡¯

The need to rearrange academic units and, potentially, cut staff is the direct result of UK government policy, say David Latchman and Matthew Innes

Australian public service chief rails against scale in call for ¡°alternatives¡± to huge comprehensive institutions

The UK¡¯s Higher Education Bill could become a new global reference on academic freedom ¨C if only it can get the definition right, say Liviu Matei and Shitij Kapur

Chris Skidmore urges universities to demonstrate how international students cross-subsidise course places for domestic classmates

Too many European policymakers see universities as ¡®knowledge factories¡¯ that exist to serve state interests, according to College of Europe professor

Articulating numerical goals can focus efforts, commentators say, but not always in the right direction

Westminster government provides ?30 million for ¡®talent and stabilisation fund¡¯ and pumps extra ?100 million of quality-related support into English universities

Sector should use review to break free from internal preoccupation and ¡®utilitarian¡¯ focus on private domestic benefit, conference hears

Move seen as a way of strengthening links between academia and policymakers to ensure parliamentarians have access to latest scholarship

Chancellor heralds switch of investment zone focus to higher education institutions in ¡®left-behind areas¡¯

Academic research leaders welcome shift from Trump hostilities but see unnecessary limits on foreigners in US labs, and uncertainties over unification of disclosure rules

High turnout among college-aged voters helps Democrats, but renewed Republican control of House may limit their payback on affordability and equity

Chancellor also announces that investment zones will be refocused to centre on universities in ¡®left-behind areas¡¯ driving growth sectors

Author of centenary report on UK adult education says plans as they stand unlikely to undo decades of neglect

Steve West also calls on politicians to ¡®get serious¡¯ about solution to declining university funding

Latest DfE appointee tells event he does not want the policy debate ¡®to be about Oxbridge, Oxbridge, Oxbridge¡¯

If government sets clear ambitions, innovation follows from the private sector and charities ¨C not the other way round, says Ian Walker

Non-partisan panel asked to update access targets and complete Bradley review¡¯s unfinished business

National Union of Students urges government to provide support in autumn statement as students slash spending on food and heating to get by

Consensus with regions and reversals by parliament¡¯s budget committee help keep coalition promises

But lead negotiator for parliament¡¯s research committee said refusal to plough more unspent funds back into programme ¡®cannot stand¡¯ 

All but tiny minority of population qualify for enrolment under ¡®economically weaker¡¯ label

Increasingly international universities want to push native-language brain drain up the political agenda, despite their rescue from ¡®freefall¡¯ by a recent funding top-up

Universities should not be obliged to support speech that restricts another¡¯s right to speech or academic freedom, say James Murray and Alice Sullivan

You are part of the problem, academic union tells Labour, as government declines to ¡®step in¡¯

Funding council reviewer signals intent to recommend ditching ERA, rewriting national interest test and circumscribing veto power

Ministerial reshuffle nears completion as faces new and old take up key positions in business and education departments

Always left holding the wrong end of the stick, independent institutions hope for a ¡®reset¡¯ from the misleadingly named universities accord

Pause of Norway¡¯s prestigious investigator-led grants comes as EU alternatives also face the chopping block

Former education committee chair ¡®appears to have interest in detail of policy¡¯ and sees employability as purpose of university

Responding to Laurentian crisis, proposal moving through federal Senate would bar public universities from creditor protection, but with only a promise of unspecified alternatives

Iain Mansfield aims to work on ¡®breaking the impasse¡¯ on funding in new thinktank role and denies being ¡®culture warrior¡¯

Permanent expansion of Covid-era waiver on interest payments cheered by student activists but lamented by conservatives as wasteful and by progressives as missed opportunity

International students are ¡®part of the solution, and not the problem¡¯, says ex-minister on launch of new commission

Populist right-wing leader leaves office with public universities facing bankruptcy and country polarised

Concerns over more rigid control of universities and fear of isolationist thinking causing ¡®intellectual impoverishment¡¯ for East and West

Scholar warns that growing influence of ideology over education could be ¡®the most dangerous thing¡¯ happening in modern-day Russia

Decade-old policy has dramatically changed the make-up of institutions, but critics claim it is unfair and unconstitutional

Policymakers will need to work out exactly what ¡®equity¡¯ means before entrenching it in new funding arrangements

The new prime minister¡¯s orthodoxy will prevent a repeat of the Iron Lady¡¯s raid on the science and higher education budgets, says Terence Kealey

Australia¡¯s new Labor government must allow more fee flexibility for high-cost degree subjects otherwise genuine student choice will disappear, say Robert Griew and Ian Anderson

Seeing racial inequities in system of Republican-controlled legislature appointing campus trustees, state¡¯s Democratic leader sets up commission to press reforms

Ahead of ruling on Harvard and North Carolina cases, conservative majority on nation¡¯s top court makes clear it leans towards ending predecessors¡¯ 2003 approval of racial preferences in college admissions