Europe

James Cleverly becomes home secretary as former prime minister David Cameron replaces him as foreign secretary

Changes to visas and foundation years likely to hit income, deans fear, with big repercussions for parent universities

Funding emerges as biggest challenge to helping staff and students set up businesses, as community outreach work ‘nosedives’

Dominant role of UK capital in highly skilled employment means university leavers elsewhere may find it harder to fully capitalise on their degrees, says IFS

Aberdeen’s proposal to close language degree programmes might save money but it will impoverish international understanding, says Charles Burdett

Sadiq Khan claims Susan Hall is ‘against foreign students’ coming to the capital, but she accuses him of ‘making things up’

Polling also finds public ‘misunderstanding’ in idea that graduates lean left on economics, suggesting impact of ‘woke’ universities narrative

Overall decline in number of doctoral candidates winning support masks even sharper drop among UK-domiciled applicants

Westminster government must match ambitious rhetoric with increased investment to keep pace with competition, says mission group’s manifesto

Despite backlash fears, quotas aimed at increasing proportion of women on academic boards can aid gender equality more broadly, study suggests

Palestinian universities in West Bank face losing scholars, while Netanyahu opponents also predicted to leave Israel

With helping students and graduates the likely priority, universities will have to make concessions for a share of any spare cash, says Jonathan Simons