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Co-branded campuses and partial mergers expected to become more common in face of higher borrowing costs

Annual report reveals A$90m surplus but university insists ‘structural and operating deficit’ makes belt-tightening necessary

Liverpool Hope and Manchester to provide support as Spurgeon’s College shuts after nearly 170 years

Vocational and English language colleges have incurred the brunt of Australia’s international education crackdown, latest figures show

Government urged to address shortfall in funding for Irish universities ‘immediately’ amid high staff-student ratios

Leeds Trinity and Canterbury Christ Church among institutions hardest hit after slashing of Strategic Priorities Grant

The Oxford-Cambridge Arc universities kept the faith, but the sector’s current focus is inevitably on shorter-term priorities, says Alistair Lomax

More regular payments for per-module study would help even out income over course of a year, according to new Open University leader

New president’s plan to spread excellence beyond capital ‘unfeasible’ in era of declining enrolments, academics warn

Several student protection directions active in last financial year, with 71 institutions subjected to formal monitoring

Sustainable business plan and programme diversity key, says vice-chancellor who stepped in to save historic institution

Universities ‘still unprepared’ for market failure and should pay into scheme that can cover expenses, says OIA

Research-intensive universities face £315 million bill for proposed fee levy, adding to pressures caused by massive erosion of fee value, says lobby group

Applications for professional service posts decline as appeal of working in universities ‘fades’, but academics face more competition than ever

Warning more institutions may look to Scottish government for support as ailing university’s problems blamed on mismanagement rather than wider funding pressures

Further meetings fail to reach agreement in UK sector talks, with union calling 1.4 per cent rise a ‘real-terms cut’

User-pays immigration overhaul could undermine international education recovery, universities warn

Surrey one of the first institutions outside TPS to look at offering different terms and conditions for new hires to save costs

One in five UK university leaders exploring mergers as sector fears ‘contagion’ effect of institutional failure

UCU claims institution hasn’t ruled out compulsory redundancies as it cuts further 75 roles

Using money raised from international fees could help support most disadvantaged to attend university, finds inquiry

Australian National University’s 60-year-old school to become a ‘programme’, as performance, composition and theory give way to ‘music and well-being’

Domestic student places and essential courses face axe as plan to tax international tuition fees could prove to be ‘final nail in a coffin’ for some institutions

Market logic has converted universities from publicly oriented educators of citizens to workforce training institutions serving economic interests, says Graeme Turner

Affected professional services staff will be given the chance to apply for one of hundreds of new posts

Ability to run courses and research in Leicester relies on income from international operations, leader warns after criticism of expansion plans

Data shows surge in enrolments concentrated in metropolitan universities, as new Australian commission comes into being

Cash-strapped university tightens executive pay as it hopes to return to ‘break-even’ position in 2025

Iain Gillespie admits not knowing his former institution breached banking arrangements until reading about it in damning report

Past few years have felt like ‘tumbling around in a washing machine at times’, university leader tells MPs

Dundee bailout could set precedent for government intervention but new pots of money could come with strings attached, event hears

Money for ailing institution via Scottish Funding Council comes on top of the £22 million previously made available

Annual reports paint 2024 as a year of reprieve, but expiry of teaching subsidy enhancement ‘will make things tighter’

Union members call for new democratic management structure as interim vice-chancellor appointed to lead Scottish institution

Institution says it is ‘not immune’ to financial challenges as it looks to axe 400 jobs

Government set to resurrect integrity measures, as predatory institutions profit from their competitors’ ‘blood, sweat and tears’

The tasks that can be automated or augmented are some of those that university staff undertake day in and day out, says Alexander Iosad

Interim vice-chancellor steps down after investigators blame financial crisis on mismanagement, not external pressures

Growing numbers of higher education leaders believe their institutions need to change, but only a minority are confident that they can

Four in five tertiary education students globally to be in developing world by 2040, World Bank research predicts

Foreign student numbers rebound despite fee increases as other anglophone countries impose immigration restrictions

Institution falling back on reserve cash to pursue growth through major transformation, including a new teaching model, overseas expansion and controversial staff redundancies

Universities call for more support as government rhetoric suggests policy focus shifting to wider tertiary sector

Welsh university leader warns of further job losses for professional services staff as politicians probe scale of original cuts

Education committee announces inquiry into higher education funding as financial position of sector worsens

Annual data shows universities in England and Northern Ireland face growing losses on research and teaching domestic students 

Redundancies are being pushed through at many universities even as their accounts attest to relatively robust financial health. But as Labor’s de facto caps on international enrolment start to bite, some suggest that vice-chancellors are right to be prudent. John Ross reports

With spending review expected to leave little room to manoeuvre, focus on post-16 agenda worries universities

Risk of ‘progressively more destructive patterns of behaviour’ as UK institutions find themselves increasingly ‘boxed in’

Savings only part of the motivation for university’s ‘realignment’ to ‘remain relevant’, but union says management wants the humanities ‘burned’

Universities eye ‘block teaching’ as way of attracting more students but staff at places that have made the switch warn it is having the opposite effect

Students given wrong question and others left without supporting documents, but institution denies impact of voluntary severance programme was to blame

Difficult to get new models of collaboration off the ground without ‘transformation funding’, finds efficiencies review

Uncertainty over the future of degree apprenticeship funding endangers success of crucial upskilling programme, says Exeter v-c Lisa Roberts

Proposal to increase money paid by top US institutions fifteenfold could prove to have deeper impact than more headline-grabbing Trump policies

Incoming deputy prime minister casts doubt on plans to boost domestic medical training, saying he is ‘standing up for careful use of taxpayer money’

Turnaround in financial fortunes in New South Wales largely driven by growth of wealthy institutions, with others still in deficit

Potential reprioritisation of parts of research budget could heap pressure on institutions already counting cost of immigration and tax changes

Union threat could prove to be more about ‘propaganda’, with legality of pursuing dispute against education secretary questioned

With international students being squeezed, both government and industry must ‘grapple with university funding realities’, according to Carolyn Evans