36+ min ago   (93+ words) Research Professional News University leaders pledge “redoubled” collaboration but call for policy backing and acknowledgement of past inequalities Associations of African and European universities have urged policymakers to provide more support to research and higher education partnerships between the two…...

5+ day, 18+ hour ago   (85+ words) Student access bill ‘gives government too much control’ Research Professional News Image: Craig, via Adobe Stock Australian universities say Accord legislation is a threat to international student numbers Legislation designed to increase access to Australian universities risks undermining international student…...

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (718+ words) Image: Matt Buck [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Flickr UCU branch's strike action aims to fight “likely” redundancies across several research areas Redundancies are feared across music, modern languages and American and Canadian studies at the University of Nottingham, a University and…...

6+ day, 16+ hour ago   (102+ words) Research Professional News Image: House of Commons [CC BY-NC-ND 4.0], via Flickr British expertise will help develop AI technologies for Ukraine and the UK using battlefield data UK universities will back Ukraine in exchange for battlefield data that can train artificial…...

6+ day, 17+ hour ago   (187+ words) Image: Scottish Government [CC BY 4.0], via Flickr Ben Macpherson resigns from innovation, technology and tertiary education brief for health reasons Scotland’s minister for innovation, technology and tertiary education, Ben Macpherson, has stood down due to health reasons. In a letter…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (191+ words) Misuse of student financial support has prompted action, higher education and regulatory bodies say A coalition of higher education and gambling regulatory bodies in South Africa has launched a national task team to curb the growing use of student financial…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (340+ words) Multi-year investigation finds 5.1 billion rand improperly awarded to 40,000 students in South Africa South Africa’s national student financial aid scheme has been described as “a fiscal leak” in urgent need of reform by one of the country’s political watchdogs. Advocate Kholeka…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (488+ words) Image: Canva Studio, via Pexels Innovative organisations that can “do things differently” should be eligible for funding, group argues A group of research bodies has urged UK Research and Innovation to lift a “de facto ban” on supporting new organisations,…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (576+ words) A Royal Society fellowship scheme for mid-career research leaders has been branded a “policy failure” over the seniority of its latest cohort of winners. The national science academy’s Faraday Discovery Fellowships were launched in 2024 with a £250 million endowment from the…...

1+ week, 6+ day ago   (660+ words) Image:?????????????, via Adobe Stock Institutions recovered 67 per cent of research costs in 2024-25, as concerns over sustainability grow UK universities continued to face a research funding gap of more than £6 billion in 2024-25, according to new data, despite a marginal improvement in…...