Unpredictable business school enrolment poses threat to finances Changes to visas and foundation years likely to hit income, deans fear, with big repercussions for parent universities By Tom Williams 13 November
Universities’ dwindling budgets threaten support for enterprise Funding emerges as biggest challenge to helping staff and students set up businesses, as community outreach work ‘nosedives’ By Tom Williams 13 November
Teaching modern languages without culture will harm global relations Aberdeen’s proposal to close language degree programmes might save money but it will impoverish international understanding, says Charles Burdett By Charles Burdett 13 November
London mayoralty frontrunners clash on international students Sadiq Khan claims Susan Hall is ‘against foreign students’ coming to the capital, but she accuses him of ‘making things up’ By Patrick Jack 12 November
Voters divided on Sunak’s crackdown on ‘rip-off degrees’ Polling also finds public ‘misunderstanding’ in idea that graduates lean left on economics, suggesting impact of ‘woke’ universities narrative By John Morgan 10 November
Gaza war drives new wave of academic emigration Palestinian universities in West Bank face losing scholars, while Netanyahu opponents also predicted to leave Israel By Pola Lem 9 November
Domestic students squeezed out as UKRI PhD support contracts Overall decline in number of doctoral candidates winning support masks even sharper drop among UK-domiciled applicants By Jack Grove 9 November
Russell Group wants ?4 billion hike in UK research spend by 2030 Westminster government must match ambitious rhetoric with increased investment to keep pace with competition, says mission group’s manifesto By Jack Grove 9 November
Board gender quotas ‘boost female numbers across senior ranks’ Despite backlash fears, quotas aimed at increasing proportion of women on academic boards can aid gender equality more broadly, study suggests By Emily Dixon 9 November
English HE won’t get something for nothing from Labour With helping students and graduates the likely priority, universities will have to make concessions for a share of any spare cash, says Jonathan Simons By Jonathan Simons 9 November
Johnson: King’s Speech degrees line a ‘culture wars dog whistle’ Former minister wary of ‘policy that would throw the engines of social mobility in higher education into reverse’ By Patrick Jack 8 November
UUK chief: minister’s funding rebuff ‘not end of conversation’ Sally Mapstone on why university funding problems are too urgent for ‘something more radical’ or a review – and what she really thinks about corduroy By John Morgan 8 November