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Ditching high-profile pledge to spend ?300 million more on maths research over next five years will harm under-pressure discipline, experts warn

Universities urged to rule out taking advantage of planned redrawing of UK legislation

President must learn to work with a fragmented parliament, but experts say likely allies will back his push to liberalise higher education

Winners of internal competitions will not be eligible for research council grants, as power shifts to government

Change is finally beginning to happen across higher education but campaigners say structural change is needed, not sticking plasters

Big publishers finding switch away from paywalls challenging, says European-led coalition

Science leaders beg Ursula von der Leyen to break political impasse

European doctoral body says funders must recognise that current financial support is often insufficient for PhD researchers

Survey finds UK undergraduates appear a lot less supportive of free speech than they were six years ago

Analysis of ¡®true economic value¡¯ of sector says staff are essentially subsidising a broken system

Position will be used to ¡®keep universities on a shorter leash¡¯ and ¡®pre-empt any potential dissent¡¯, academics say

Female scholars grossly under-represented on editorial boards of public health and environmental science publications, says Cambridge-led study