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Arizona State University¡¯s Michael Crow was the highest-earning leader in 2015-16

Threshold freeze bites while poorest graduate ¡®with largest debts¡¯ of ?57,000 on average, researchers warn

Senior minister said that there may need to be a ¡®national debate¡¯ about student debt

Jo Johnson takes aim at Southampton¡¯s leader in outspoken attack on ¡®sharp increase¡¯ in salaries

Lecturers and vice-chancellors will now be eligible for four-year visas and permanent residency

¡®Shocking¡¯ shift away from fundamental projects harms country's scientific reputation, says author of report

Low salaries, excessive bureaucracy and poorly defined research policies add to region¡¯s woes

UK universities¡¯ complacency in the good times has left them ill-equipped to respond to falling postgraduate master¡¯s enrolment, says Michelle Morgan

The sweatshop conditions in which sessional academics work in Australia mirror the treatment of schoolteachers in Victorian times, say Hannah Forsyth and Jedidiah Evans 

Exercise that could take money away from universities likely to be shelved or scaled back

Vice-chancellor explains traditional offices and teaching styles will disappear at ?330 million Waterside project

As student loan debt in the UK passes ?100 billion, Sir Keith Burnett says it¡¯s time we faced up to the real cost of tuition fees and debt

Forty-one per cent of respondents to ACE survey describe political climate as ¡®hostile¡¯ to higher education

Figures from latest Times Higher Education/Grant Thornton survey highlight ¡®arbitrary nature¡¯ of awards, says UCU

Lots of money is spent on medical education in England ¨C but very little of it goes towards teaching, says Philip Chan 

In our annual survey of vice-chancellors¡¯ pay, which reveals double-digit hikes for some and more modest rises for others, Simon Baker examines how remuneration committees make their decisions amid calls for greater transparency over the ¡®arbitrary¡¯ nature of salary increases

Popularity of plans to scrap tuition fees in England sparks interest Down Under

Proportion of universities saying making money is a key motivation doubles in five years

UK¡¯s distance learning institution looking to save equivalent of nearly a quarter of its budget

Party figures warn vice-chancellors not to ignore public anger over tuition fees

Concerns over political failure to agree strategy and predictions of mergers raised in major survey

The maths just does not add up when you look at the impact of cuts on tuition fee prices, says Andrew Gillen

Worcester vice-chancellor forecasts 'significant financial difficulty' for dozens of universities because of dip in student numbers

Molly Corbett Broad warns that sectors' pre-eminent position in global higher education may be at risk

Free movement and ECJ jurisdiction seen as potential stumbling blocks at Russell Group's meeting with MEPs

Fears over youth unemployment and excessive university expansion could be behind weak support as some countries mull shift

While participation has continued to grow under ?9,000 fee regime, researchers argue efforts to widen access would be helped by abolition of fees

Purdue University¡¯s controversial acquisition of Kaplan University reflects the failure of for-profit education. But, under Trump, it may have an unwelcome resurgence, warns Felipe Fern¨¢ndez-Armesto

The Deutschlandstipendium, which sponsors students with a mixture of public and private funding, has disappointed some critics

Minister puts blame on failure to budget for uncapping student numbers, as opposition mounts

Removing the cap on subsidised sub-bachelor¡¯s places in public universities will pull the rug out from under technical and further education providers offering similar qualifications, says Gavin Moodie

University leaders highlight teaching funding proposal¡¯s similarity to England¡¯s TEF and fear ¡®perverse incentives¡¯ 

Labour MP and Corbyn critic Wes Streeting poses question of whether ¡®bold¡¯ pledge will boost student turnout

As higher education costs rise inexorably, students or governments will inevitably have to pay more, says Peter Coaldrake

UCU figures on job cut plans in 2017 reveal scholars¡¯ vulnerability in wake of Brexit and TEF

British universities would be ¡®most affected¡¯ by failure to increase Horizon 2020 funding, MEP warns

UCU attacks plans to cut 171 posts, but university denies Brexit 'the reason'

Students and academics are flocking to other states as funding impasse approaches two years

Conservative politicians emboldened by the president¡¯s election could exact the heaviest toll on higher education, says Matthew Hartley

Proposals to introduce tuition fees in Finland met with resistance

Support for medical science and the humanities will increase under 2017 budget deal

Leading universities could widen access without harming academic standards or budgets, report says

Government warned against further reductions in sector funding in upcoming budget

Some research-intensive universities grew value of collaborations by more than 20 per cent in 2015-16

As the country succeeds in attracting even more students from overseas, a mixture of demographics, ¡®soft power¡¯ concerns and local politics help explain its policy

Government concessions needed ¡®if it is not to lose its bill¡¯, senior Labour peer warns

Sir Keith Burnett returns from Australia with some astute observations on two far-from-perfect higher education systems

Nearly a million households expected to benefit from deal covering SUNY and CUNY systems 

Warnings that state involvement in funding decisions is harming institutions¡¯ abilities to compete

US academics might find a warm word for the president if he forces universities to become financially disciplined and sustainable, say Jose Garcia, Don Barwick and Joseph Garcia

The decline of a once-lucrative indoor market shows how job losses at Heriot-Watt could signal big trouble ahead for the sector, says Helga Drummond

Next Universities Australia chair sees big role for universities in shift to post-industrial society

Two-thirds of funding over past three years went to just 20 institutions 

Colorado¡¯s excise tax set to raise millions of dollars to support college access

Latest report on sector¡¯s financial health paints picture of growing gap between haves and have-nots

Higher education funding from US state governments has always been volatile, but reforms to healthcare could put public universities¡¯ income under even greater pressure, says Will Doyle

Minister's speech disrupted at event aimed at finding solutions to sector challenges