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Worcester vice-chancellor forecasts 'significant financial difficulty' for dozens of universities because of dip in student numbers

Molly Corbett Broad warns that sectors' pre-eminent position in global higher education may be at risk

Free movement and ECJ jurisdiction seen as potential stumbling blocks at Russell Group's meeting with MEPs

Fears over youth unemployment and excessive university expansion could be behind weak support as some countries mull shift

While participation has continued to grow under ?9,000 fee regime, researchers argue efforts to widen access would be helped by abolition of fees

Purdue University¡¯s controversial acquisition of Kaplan University reflects the failure of for-profit education. But, under Trump, it may have an unwelcome resurgence, warns Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

The Deutschlandstipendium, which sponsors students with a mixture of public and private funding, has disappointed some critics

Minister puts blame on failure to budget for uncapping student numbers, as opposition mounts

Removing the cap on subsidised sub-bachelor¡¯s places in public universities will pull the rug out from under technical and further education providers offering similar qualifications, says Gavin Moodie

University leaders highlight teaching funding proposal¡¯s similarity to England¡¯s TEF and fear ¡®perverse incentives¡¯ 

Labour MP and Corbyn critic Wes Streeting poses question of whether ¡®bold¡¯ pledge will boost student turnout

UCU figures on job cut plans in 2017 reveal scholars¡¯ vulnerability in wake of Brexit and TEF

As higher education costs rise inexorably, students or governments will inevitably have to pay more, says Peter Coaldrake

British universities would be ¡®most affected¡¯ by failure to increase Horizon 2020 funding, MEP warns

UCU attacks plans to cut 171 posts, but university denies Brexit 'the reason'

Students and academics are flocking to other states as funding impasse approaches two years

Conservative politicians emboldened by the president¡¯s election could exact the heaviest toll on higher education, says Matthew Hartley

Proposals to introduce tuition fees in Finland met with resistance

Support for medical science and the humanities will increase under 2017 budget deal

Leading universities could widen access without harming academic standards or budgets, report says

Government warned against further reductions in sector funding in upcoming budget

Some research-intensive universities grew value of collaborations by more than 20 per cent in 2015-16

As the country succeeds in attracting even more students from overseas, a mixture of demographics, ¡®soft power¡¯ concerns and local politics help explain its policy

Government concessions needed ¡®if it is not to lose its bill¡¯, senior Labour peer warns

Sir Keith Burnett returns from Australia with some astute observations on two far-from-perfect higher education systems

Nearly a million households expected to benefit from deal covering SUNY and CUNY systems 

Warnings that state involvement in funding decisions is harming institutions¡¯ abilities to compete

US academics might find a warm word for the president if he forces universities to become financially disciplined and sustainable, say Jose Garcia, Don Barwick and Joseph Garcia

The decline of a once-lucrative indoor market shows how job losses at Heriot-Watt could signal big trouble ahead for the sector, says Helga Drummond

Next Universities Australia chair sees big role for universities in shift to post-industrial society

Two-thirds of funding over past three years went to just 20 institutions 

Colorado¡¯s excise tax set to raise millions of dollars to support college access

Latest report on sector¡¯s financial health paints picture of growing gap between haves and have-nots

Higher education funding from US state governments has always been volatile, but reforms to healthcare could put public universities¡¯ income under even greater pressure, says Will Doyle

Minister's speech disrupted at event aimed at finding solutions to sector challenges

Latest data on research grants show just how much UK institutions get from the EU

Steve Keen laments loss of ¡®time and freedom¡¯ for universities¡¯ ¡®original thinkers¡¯

Current loan system in US puts high repayment burdens on low-earning graduates, says paper

Despite uncertainty, institutions remain willing to invest to compete globally

¡®It's a clear commitment and we want to deliver,¡¯ says shadow chancellor

Chancellor Philip Hammond allocates previously announced industrial strategy funding

Looking at how tuition fees have swelled university coffers may tell only part of the story

But new analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies pinpoints risks for the future

Labor calls for funding alternatives to fee deregulation

Study claims California¡¯s higher education policy environment has led to the ¡®stagnation¡¯ of the state¡¯s universities 

University of Paris Seine offers UK institutions chance to create a base in France

Universities Australia warns government against scrapping Education Investment Fund

Adrian Furnham makes his case for a discerning approach to philanthropy

UK ¡®naive¡¯ to think that it could replace academic links with European industry with those from elsewhere

Investing in UK science may be cheaper after Brexit but the true cost to innovation system remains to be seen, says Holly Else

Novo Nordisk to invest ?115 million in University of Oxford centre despite Brexit

Ucas January deadline figures show 5% fall across all students

FT commentator gives damning verdict on what he describes as ¡®government takeover of university sector¡¯

Universities¡¯ records on admissions for different ethnic and social groups also highlighted

But L. Rafael Reif admits the university may have to look for alternative funding sources and new ways to ¡®stay connected¡¯ to world 

Scholars fear reputation of country¡¯s higher education sector will be damaged as evidence of brain drain mounts