MEP: ‘symbolic’ budget cut ‘defunds 50 potential Nobel winners’ European finance ministers told to abandon ‘absurd’ plan to shift unspent Horizon funding elsewhere in their squeezed 2023 budget Ben Upton 10月 5日
Tory conference: ‘Harry Potter studies’ jibe was ‘appalling’ Claim universities feed students ‘anti-British history’ was ‘cheap wisecrack’ when ‘mature debate’ needed, says ex-No 10 adviser John Morgan 10月 4日
UK sector agencies Jisc and Hesa complete merger Union achieves key aim of 2017 Bell review of sector organisations Chris Havergal 10月 4日
Alice Gast: championing international students Compelling stories of how foreign-born founders drive economic prosperity are more likely to convince policymakers about the need to embrace overseas students, says Alice Gast, who recently stepped down as president of Imperial College London Jack Grove 10月 4日
Reactionary lecturers ‘emboldened’ by incoming Italian government But political scientists and politician-scientist say the country’s rightward shift poses ‘no risk’ to academic freedom or international recruitment Ben Upton 10月 4日
Retraction of masturbation study ‘troubling for free speech’ New York-based manga comic expert claims withdrawal of Karl Andersson’s controversial paper may ‘stifle innovation and scholarship’ in future Jack Grove 10月 4日
Tory conference: Jenkyns says universities offer ‘Harry Potter studies’ Minister’s comments at Conservative conference reignite culture wars over universities John Morgan 10月 3日
Nusrat Ghani named UK science minister Strong critic of Chinese human rights abuses takes on brief after hiatus of several months Jack Grove 10月 3日
V-cs ‘disappointed’ by Braverman’s overseas students comments New home secretary concerned about dependants ‘piggybacking’ on family members’ student visas Patrick Jack 10月 3日
Tory conference: lifelong loans ‘must not wither on the vine’ Philip Augar issues warning on LLE, but Lord Willetts fears new government ‘would like to’ restrict higher education entry John Morgan 10月 3日
Swedish geneticist wins medicine Nobel for Neanderthal research Svante P??bo follows in footsteps of his father, a fellow Nobel laureate Jack Grove 10月 3日
Tory conference: contextual admissions ‘as abhorrent as racism’ Iain Mansfield warns ‘widespread discrimination’ against wealthier students weakens university funding case John Morgan 10月 3日