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Other UK government departments outside science will be encouraged to allocate a proportion of their research budgets to long-term funding

Secretary of state promises to focus on building global partnerships in vital document that will shape approach to education exports

Current widening participation approach not working, say academics, as rural villages and coastal towns revealed as areas with lowest levels of progression to universities

While some see higher compliance thresholds as way to identify rogue operators, the threat of losing licences could push universities to withdraw from certain regions entirely

Science academy urges government to facilitate curiosity-driven research and protect researchers from intimidation

Latest cost-cutting drives to hit UK sector include planned compulsory redundancies at Bournemouth-based institution

Experience Down Under suggests universities should not be too quick to torpedo idea that overseas income should be redistributed

If universities must boost opportunity and growth to unlock financial relief, partnering with strategic authorities makes perfect sense, say Chris Cunningham, Jo Davies, Michael Donnelly and Nadia Siddiqui

All of university¡¯s hourly paid lecturers in social sciences set to go under plans that will affect a quarter of academic workforce

Job cuts target drops from initial 400 after university accepts proposals put forward by staff which will see schools ¡®teaching higher numbers of students¡¯

English sector facing total bill of ?620 million a year, if government goes ahead with plan to take cut of international earnings

From next year, the AHRC will fund vastly fewer student-initiated PhDs, focusing more of its reduced funding on specific challenges. Critics say this will undo a decade of improvements in PhD supervision and limit vital opportunities to exercise intellectual autonomy. Jack Grove reports