UK universities are increasingly reserving PhD opportunities for ethnic minority students in a move seen as a way of widening the talent pipeline www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

Who will be the next chief executive of the Office for Students? @helenpacker.bsky.social looks at the potential candidates, and what the sector wants from them www.timeshighereducation.com/news/who-wil...

[email protected] threatens to sue University of Bristol over its handling of a guest lecture that was disrupted by transgender rights activists www.timeshighereducation.com/news/gender-... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

“Big five” academic publishers reach agreements with UK universities, with a trial that will remove fees on a per article basis from certain journals being hailed as a “global first” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-publ... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

A cross-party review of the financial sustainability of Scotland’s universities will go ahead after months of initial talks between university leaders and politicians, reports @helenpacker.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/scottis...

Return of Erasmus+ may prove particularly beneficial for mid-tier universities which lost significant numbers of students from the EU post-Brexit, reports @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/returni...

I like this from @jgro-the.bsky.social: "Textbook inspires professor’s AI-enabled ‘academic trance’ album" feat @digitalurban.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/textboo...

Eliminating funding for 3* research in next Research Excellence Framework would benefit Russell Group institutions by about £50 million a year, suggests modelling www.timeshighereducation.com/news/beware-... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

Failure to adequately manage work-related stress at University of Birmingham breached health and safety regulations, watchdog rules www.timeshighereducation.com/news/birming... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Australian universities will be assessed on efforts to stamp out antisemitism on campus, and risk losing funding if they are found wanting, under government moves following Bondi Beach terrorist attack www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

Good to see @patrickjack.bsky.social's scoop on vice-chancellor bonuses being followed up across the nationals. You can read the original piece here (it was Patrick who did the hard yards of trawling the accounts): www.timeshighereducation.com/news/vice-ch...

Discounts that allow PhD holders to qualify for a UK visa below the usual salary threshold should be abolished, says Migration Advisory Committee www.timeshighereducation.com/news/scrap-v... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Bonuses of £50k. £100k. Even £145k. All while the sector is in crisis. UCU general secretary @drjogrady.bsky.social says vice-chancellors should “do the charitable thing and donate their bonuses to the food banks that will be supporting far too many students”.

UKRI unveils major research funding shake-up, splitting funding across curiosity-driven research, national priorities, innovation and PhDs/infrastructure www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ukri-fu... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

Full details from @helenpacker.bsky.social on UK's return to Erasmus+, including funding, participation, and the future of the Turing scheme www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-aims...

Facing a £12 million deficit and a beloved but underutilised rural campus, a former barrister who led murder cases says she took lessons from legal career when attempting to modernise a university with Victorian origins www.timeshighereducation.com/news/elwen-e... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

UK return to Erasmus+ opens up "fantastic opportunities" for students and will "renew the huge contributions" that EU learners make to UK campuses, says @russellgroup.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-set-... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

UK is expected to rejoin the EU’s Erasmus+ exchange scheme from January 2027, reports @helenpacker.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-set-...

Coventry University insists it is on road to recovery despite posting second successive £59 million deficit - Newcastle and Bradford also among latest institutions to report losses www.timeshighereducation.com/news/coventr... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Exam board find £750K by Ofqual for allowing malpractice to occur in English language proficiency test used by UK universities in international student admissions www.timeshighereducation.com/news/exam-bo... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Vice-chancellor bonuses growing despite sector funding crisis, reports @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/vice-ch...

Southampton Solent staff vote to strike in pensions dispute as Essex union calls industrial action ballot over job cuts www.timeshighereducation.com/news/southam... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Trans scholars say they are being ‘pushed out of academia’ in wake of the Supreme Court ruling and OfS Sussex fine www.timeshighereducation.com/news/trans-s...

Higher education providers applying for degree-awarding powers in England are reporting processing times in excess of two years www.timeshighereducation.com/news/college... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Who was a change-maker in higher education this year - who made the @timeshighered.bsky.social Faces of 2025? See the full list: www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/faces-...

Australian universities should not react to Bondi Beach attack by steering clear of Israeli-Palestinian tensions, academics say - instead they should focus teaching, research and conversations on the issue, "from a place of generosity and goodwill" www.timeshighereducation.com/news/hard-co...

Latest UK universities to post deficits: Cambridge, Queen’s Belfast, Leicester, London Met, Derby, Nottingham Trent, Liverpool John Moores www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

UK universities agree terms for deals with four big publishers: Elsevier, Springer Nature, Wiley and Taylor & Francis www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

University Academy 92 to open campus inside Old Trafford stadium www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ua92-op... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Students and staff calling on University of Cambridge to keep its veterinary school open after internal review concluded there was no long-term solution for its survival www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Susan Lapworth to step down as Office for Students chief executive www.timeshighereducation.com/news/susan-l...

"It was hard; everyone understood it was hard. It was deeply emotional; these are people’s lives. But don’t believe everything you read in the newspapers," Wendy Larner tells me as she reflects on a tumultuous year at @cardiffuni.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/wendy-...

“The reality must be that this work stream had drifted really far off course for this kind of dramatic action to be felt necessary so late in the process,” says @johnwomersley.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/last-mi... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

"[This] is a pragmatic response...The use of the word 'culture' itself was becoming a distraction...but the new framing should by no means be interpreted as a climbdown.' @wellcometrust.bsky.social CEO @jarottingen.bsky.social on #REF2029 rules www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/refs...

Idea that Competitions and Markets Authority would punish universities which work more closely together is 'a bit of a fantasy', says OfS chair www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

House of Commons Education Select Committee challenges skills minister Jacqui Smith over her assertion that a university could keep teaching even if it became insolvent www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mps-que... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

Record 90,000 undergraduates living at home this year, according to Ucas data. More than half of students from most disadvantaged backgrounds now commuting to campus www.timeshighereducation.com/news/more-ha... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Canada launches C$1.7 billion (£920K) initiative to recruit international researchers. Series of programmes hopes to attract 1,000+ academics over next 12 years www.timeshighereducation.com/news/canada-... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Southampton v-c Mark Smith to step down to become University of oxford pro vice-chancellor www.timeshighereducation.com/news/smith-l...

Breaking: REF 2029 downgrades research culture weighting, reinstates five outputs per academic limit www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ref-202... via @jgro-the.bsky.social #REF2029

International student levy expected to add to pressure on already “squeezed” middle-ground universities, writes @helenpacker.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/interna...

Researchers moving to UK under Global Talent Fund speak out, saying global race for top scientists is hotting up www.timeshighereducation.com/news/talent-... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Really interesting study finding two-thirds of UK university estate land is at risk of extreme heat stress from climate change, with smaller proportion at risk of flooding www.timeshighereducation.com/news/researc... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Next Scottish government should “waste no time” in launching review into how nation’s post-16 education system is funded, says @antonmuscatelli.bsky.social in @royalsoced.bsky.social report www.timeshighereducation.com/news/next-sc... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Ministers going ahead with making franchise degree providers with more than 300 students register with OfS but some fear institutions will try to stay under the threshold by splitting up provision or starting new subsidiaries www.timeshighereducation.com/news/fears-p... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Martin Parr was best known for his photos of the British seaside, but @ox.ac.uk was one of his subjects too, as @timeshighered.bsky.social reported back in 2017: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/martin-...

UNSW Sydney to open Indian branch campus in Bengaluru www.timeshighereducation.com/news/unsw-un...

Hugely enjoyed this conversation with @rstephenson123.bsky.social. Thanks for having us on, @tom-richmond.com!

It's the @srhe.bsky.social conference this week. It's a few years since my last visit, but I have long enjoyed mining the programme for gems like this one www.timeshighereducation.com/news/imperso... #SRHE2025

Academic management of Afghanistan’s universities has been systematically dismantled by the Taliban, with almost no leaders appointed prior to 2021 still in post, writes @tashmosheim.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/taliban...