Closing Department of Education is Trump’s ‘shock and awe’ via @paddywjack

What legacy does Yale-NUS College leave in Singapore? Long caught up in debates about academic freedom and internationalisation, liberal arts may not survive in city state beyond closure of pioneering partnership, finds @Helen_Packer

RT @JohnRoss49: Academics on the left should “speak up to help depoliticise this issue. Medical science should fully embrace the equality a…

On top of job cuts and course closures, Cardiff University planning to reduce undergraduate recruitment and increase student-staff ratios as it battles threatened £65m budget black hole via @JulietteRowsell

16% fall in real-terms value of QR research funding ‘threatens the very foundations of British science’, Imperial president warns via @jgro_the

Union members @UEA_UCU vote to strike over job cuts, and members of @sheffielducu could be next via @JulietteRowsell

‘No major reform’ of English HE funding, or significantly more cash, minister @Jacqui_Smith1 tells @DrJoGrady in @ucu interview - white paper to address HE/FE fragmentation, though via @JulietteRowsell

RT @ChemistryNCL: Yesterday, after 34+ years of excellence in teaching & research, Dr Julian Knight gave his last organic chemistry lecture…

Average pay packages for vice-chancellors at UK universities have increased by £40,000 – to over £340,000 – in just three years, reports @paddywjack

Humanities risk becoming “ornaments” on science-focused university course portfolios as they take a “disproportionate” hit from the UK sector funding crisis, warns @DavidOlusoga via @JulietteRowsell

RT @JohnnySRich: This is terribly sad. The coordinating role of @NightlineAssoc provides efficiency & effectiveness to literally life-savin…

Cardiff cuts: ‘They don’t appreciate what the university means for Wales’ via @JulietteRowsell

The Nightline Association, the umbrella charity for student-run listening and information services on UK university campuses, has announced that it is to close

RT @JohnRoss49: The cost of educating Australian uni students has risen by more than one-fifth in just four years, with public unis’ expens…

Crisis-hit Cardiff University records UK HE’s biggest operating deficit yet for 2023-24, with the total shortfall across Welsh institutions forecast to reach £70 million via @paddywjack

More cash-strapped English universities have decided against asking their current students to pay higher fees, while legal wrangling continues at other institutions via @TWilliamsTHE

Government should consider exempting international applicants hoping to study STEM master’s degrees from its ban on dependants accompanying students, says @LordsSTCom via @paddywjack

RT @JohnRoss49: Changes to New Zealand research funding rules are “disappointing and worrying” for humanities academics, deans said, as the…

Another week, more HE job cuts: this time a voluntary severance scheme at Queen's University Belfast, with @ucuatqub saying 270 roles will go

RT @DrLancaster: Should we concerned about LLM censorship? Report here in @timeshighered, complete with some of my thoughts #academicintegr…