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Institutions need to communicate recognition of prior learning policies more clearly if lifelong education reforms are to bear fruit, says QAA

Academics investigating why female students lose their high school grade advantage at university determine that higher levels of perceived discrimination are associated with lower academic performance for women

Scientists argue disciplines need their own ways of thinking about student belonging to reach diversity goals

Loss of Devon-based Schumacher College ‘significant blow to ecological education at a critical time’

Play celebrates the turbulent career of a pioneering female astronomer

Financial challenges facing institutions mirror those plaguing Treasury, asserts PhD-bearing science secretary, who jokes he ‘wouldn’t wish a doctorate on my own worst enemy’

Proposed Australian caps show how quickly policy environment can change, says new Manchester v-c, who has just made the switch from Down Under

Improved fortunes of UK-based researchers follows return to Horizon Europe, but grantee numbers are still much below pre-Brexit levels

Former universities minister agrees with King’s principal that ‘now is the moment’ for fee increase

More than 70 institutions shortlisted in record-breaking 20th anniversary for coveted sector awards

Forcing UKRI-backed researchers to publish their papers as preprints would save £40 million annually and ‘accelerate scientific progress’, says thinktank

Report attempts to quantify economic benefit of universities as financial issues heap doubts on their future