If universities must boost opportunity and growth to unlock financial relief, partnering with strategic authorities makes perfect sense, say Chris Cunningham, Jo Davies, Michael Donnelly and Nadia Siddiqui
Job cuts target drops from initial 400 after university accepts proposals put forward by staff which will see schools ‘teaching higher numbers of students’
From next year, the AHRC will fund vastly fewer student-initiated PhDs, focusing more of its reduced funding on specific challenges. Critics say this will undo a decade of improvements in PhD supervision and limit vital opportunities to exercise intellectual autonomy. Jack Grove reports
Science department will publish specific objectives with ‘corresponding key performance indicators’ for the ?9.6 billion research funder this summer, reveals NAO report
Universities set to lose millions in income if government goes ahead with plan to take a cut of overseas earnings, and are unlikely to see much benefit from levy spending, critics say