More than 1,000 staff will be affected as Cardiff University undertakes a “massive” restructuring of its professional services team www.timeshighereducation.com/news/cardiff... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

John Blake to leave OfS as Labour signals new approach to access www.timeshighereducation.com/news/john-bl... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

From a @ucunorthumbria.bsky.social member: "it is wrong to frame this as saying staff will have options, when all options correspond to a significant reduction from the status-quo, and the status-quo corresponds to decades long losses in academic pay. This endangers the future of the UK academia."

Northumbria University to offer staff one-off payment of £5.8K-£10K if they switch from expensive TPS pension to USS - those who do not switch face a pay freeze www.timeshighereducation.com/news/northum... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Nottingham to suspend music and modern foreign language degrees, warning international fee levy will wipe out income from domestic fee rise. Some nursing, theology, education, microbiology and agriculture degrees hit too www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Universities warned against “inherently inflationary practices” such as using multiple algorithms to determine a module’s mark and discounting lowest scores, as St Mary's and UWL found to have breached grade inflation rules www.timeshighereducation.com/news/inheren... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

Some excellent Renaissance history and @warburginstitute.bsky.social chat in this interview!

Canadian budget cuts international student cap by more than half www.timeshighereducation.com/news/canadia... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Will The Last King court settlement finally lay Leicester's Richard III saga to rest? @julietterowsell.bsky.social investigates www.timeshighereducation.com/news/will-co...

Labour is to scrap the English Baccalaureate (EBacc) after concerns that the narrow list of recommended subject choices in schools is not helping pupils increase their chances of attending top universities www.timeshighereducation.com/news/narrow-... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

The British Library’s chief executive has resigned with immediate effect mid-way through strike action www.timeshighereducation.com/news/british... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

More universities are vying to become the first to launch branch campuses in Saudi Arabia, but experts have warned that they face tight regulation and risks to their reputations, writes @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/will-br...

Is the Teaching Excellence Framework a solution that has finally found a problem? Long read on @timeshighered.bsky.social from @julietterowsell.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/tef-so...

Welsh government commits to increasing its cap on university tuition fees to keep it in line with English equivalent www.timeshighereducation.com/news/tuition... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

British nationals living abroad have called on UK universities to introduce a new tuition fee tier to put an end to the requirement that they pay international student prices www.timeshighereducation.com/news/stop-ch... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Sheffield Hallam University apologises to @lauratmurphy.bsky.social, whose research into alleged human rights abuses was blocked from publication after political pressure from Chinese security services www.timeshighereducation.com/news/sheffie... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

With the international student fee levy now likely to go ahead, vice-chancellors are focused on delaying or reducing it - and in the Russell Group, pushing for a flat fee rather than a %, writes @helenpacker.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/delay-r...

Higher education gender gap worsening in nearly half of world’s countries www.timeshighereducation.com/news/he-gend... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Covid, inflation and immigration crackdowns in the anglophone ‘big four’ have fuelled speculation that Asian students will switch to cheaper and friendlier options closer to home. But will Asian students really turn away from the West? Tash Mosheim and Paul Jump report https://ow.ly/te1v50XhqOi

Some UK universities stop accepting applications from students in Afghanistan while others impose tighter restrictions amid growing concerns Home Office will revoke licences for institutions engaged in “risky” recruitment www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Reforming external examining and introducing progression measure risk standardising university curricula and treating them like schools, warn @paulashwin.bsky.social @davehitchcock.bsky.social @profstevenjones.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/risk-st... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Students who threaten or intimidate university staff should be expelled, the UK government’s antisemitism adviser says, after masked protesters allegedly threatened to behead economics professor during lecture www.timeshighereducation.com/news/expel-s... via @tashmosheim.bsky.social

Introducing break points in degree programmes will help drive lifelong learning, but success will require rethink of graduate outcome measures and increased recognition of lower-level stand-alone qualifications, advocates tell @helenpacker.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/degree-...

From DfE to PwC and now LSBU: new vice-chancellor Paul Kett sees himself as “a poacher, a gamekeeper and a rabbit” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/paul-ke... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

University of Derby has reports itself to Information Commissioner’s Office after letters sent to staff accidentally revealed they were vulnerable to redundancy www.timeshighereducation.com/news/derby-l... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Southampton Solent University accused of “unprecedented” attempt to move staff on to “inferior” pension schemes, with those not complying facing losing their jobs www.timeshighereducation.com/news/southam... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social

Are we finally going to see a United States of Europe for research? Emily Dixon investigates prospects for the European Research Area www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/are-we...

Improved offers from the “big five” academic publishers may still prove too costly for many UK universities to accept, raising the prospect of thousands of scholars losing journal access www.timeshighereducation.com/news/new-off... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

Harvard and Oxford educate most world leaders, finds @hepi-news.bsky.social research www.timeshighereducation.com/news/harvard... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

UK universities’ campuses in China may have breached equality and free speech laws due to “pervasive” Chinese Communist Party control, report claims www.timeshighereducation.com/news/pervasi... via @tashmosheim.bsky.social

Home Office likely to resist pressure to ban those on student visas making asylum claims and will instead focus on increasing scrutiny of university recruitment practices, experts say www.timeshighereducation.com/news/tighter... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Creating an emergency administration process for universities at risk of closure could make it “more likely that the institution effectively collapses”, @universitiesuk.bsky.social chief exec @viviennestern.bsky.social tells MPs www.timeshighereducation.com/news/adminis...

Two perspectives on the Skills White Paper on @timeshighered.bsky.social this morning from two of the sector's leading HE commentators: @nickhillman.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/skil... and Diana Beech www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/skil...

Westminster government announces plans to automatically raise English university tuition fees with inflation, but says future increases will be linked to the quality of teaching www.timeshighereducation.com/news/skills-... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Another sign of madness of British parliamentary system when skills white paper - trailed as being published today - yet to see light of day on eve of 5pm because education secretary hasn't yet been able to stand up and make a statement about it in Commons (which didn't start sitting until 2.30pm)

Post-16 education in our country has been fragmented for too long. It’s held back learners, it’s held back our economy. Today, Labour is unveiling once in a generation changes to modernise our system so we can unlock opportunity for young people and drive growth for our country.

It's possible that the SNP thought sorting out Scotland's university funding crisis would be someone else's problem. But even now its polling fortunes have arrived, it may still have limited appetite to tackle the issue, writes @helenpacker.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/univers...

Post-16 Education and Skills White Paper due today - as well as new 'V levels', it is expected to include plans for student number controls on courses deemed to be poor quality www.timeshighereducation.com/news/governm... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

University of Buckingham may need to make “significant adjustments to its model” to attract investment after it was rumoured to be up for sale despite leadership and financial issues www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bucking... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

Universities must be ready to impose “very severe sanctions” on international students caught reporting classroom conversations to authorities in their homeland, England’s free speech tsar warns www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

‘Big four becomes big 14’ in international student recruitment www.timeshighereducation.com/news/big-fou...

Two-thirds of English higher education institutions which franchise courses have fallen below the sector regulator’s thresholds for undergraduate student outcomes in these partnerships, writes @patrickjack.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/two-thi...

“Important work risks being drowned out by a surge of low-quality or AI-generated content,” warns @universitypress.cambridge.org. “The sheer volume of publications threatens to overwhelm the ecosystem.” www.timeshighereducation.com/news/low-qua... via @jgro-the.bsky.social

Students who study and later work in the region they grew up in are often “marginalised” in government policy despite their role in driving local economic growth, says @millionplus.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/student... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

University processes are “ripe” for automation by generative artificial intelligence, according to a new report, with “massive implications” for professional services jobs, says @hepi-news.bsky.social report www.timeshighereducation.com/news/painful... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

Universities in Wales have asked politicians to commit to an independent review of higher education funding and student support as campaigning ramps up for next year’s parliamentary elections www.timeshighereducation.com/news/call-fu... via @helenpacker.bsky.social

UK university spin-outs raise record £3.4 billion in investments www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... via @patrickjack.bsky.social

Shorter UK graduate visa to be introduced in January 2027 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/shorter... via @twilliamsthe.bsky.social

Universities have long trumpeted graduates' employment advantages. But as the jobs market dries up, this could come back to bite them, writes @julietterowsell.bsky.social (feat @profstevenjones.bsky.social @paulashwin.bsky.social) www.timeshighereducation.com/news/faith-u...

Competition law exemption ‘needed to prevent courses dying out’ Some comments here in @timeshighered.bsky.social from me on the challenges and impacts of CMA involvement in higher education at the moment. #Regulation #ShakespeareMartineau #CMA www.timeshighereducation.com/news/competi...