Europe

Inventor’s Wiltshire-based training centre is first to go through new Office for Students process

Incoming right-wing government plans to reduce spending by €1 billion, just as efforts to reduce precarity and overwork were starting to have an effect

Scale of research precarity at top UK university and its effect on staff laid out in new report

Undermining universities offering degrees to fund apprenticeships is poor policy. Here are some better ones, says Paul Baines 

Labour’s official science slate is dull but radical moves to reform research funding and engage industry could be close, experts believe

Government proposes full-cost tuition plus application fees for non-EU applicants, while aiming for international recruitment increase

Unite branch leads walkout, saying industrial relations in union are ‘broken’, just hours after general secretary delivers unity message in opening speech

Tory plans to close low-performing degrees to fund apprenticeships ‘miss the mark’, says UK sector

Late responses to PhD applicant enquiries and lack of signposting might contribute to poor ethnic minority representation at doctoral level, researchers say

In congress address, general secretary pledges to work to end in-house industrial dispute and to ‘hold Labour’s feet to the fire’

University leader turned Palestinian Authority minister pledges to rebuild destroyed campuses

Report into scandal highlights danger of relying on singular sources of knowledge, in contrast to inquiry itself, which utilised vast range of expertise to get to the bottom of what happened