UK sector eyes end to foreign student stagnation as rivals profit Immigration bill and education exports strategy seen as key windows for reform after disappointing MAC review By John Morgan 20 September
Jane Turner: &I am often the only woman at the table' The Teesside pro vice-chancellor discusses promoting gender balance and being diagnosed with ovarian cancer By Ellie Bothwell 20 September
The European Union of Scholars must be preserved Science blooms when colleagues* ideas cross-pollinate. Impediments to free movement will lead to a disastrous withering, says Sir Keith Burnett By Keith Burnett 20 September
Irish universities &struggling to cope* as funding cuts bite A decade of budget reductions and surging student numbers leaves sector ill-prepared for further increases, institutions warn By David Matthews 19 September
Degrees in Dutch &facing extinction* in Netherlands Courses in Dutch language and literature are now more popular in Poland than in the Netherlands, figures suggest By Jack Grove 19 September
Professor: replace humanities funder with liberal arts colleges Cambridge fellow also calls for arts to be excluded from research excellence framework By Rachael Pells 19 September
Wellcome Trust*s student housing firm held in Luxembourg Critics question why iQ, with UK property worth ?2.2 billion, is registered offshore in favourable tax regime By John Morgan 19 September
France boosts international student numbers Increase may reflect efforts to target markets where UK has traditionally been strong By Matthew Reisz 18 September
Report cements fear of UK visa &deterrent* for EU nationals But universities welcome Migration Advisory Committee call to end Tier 2 visa cap By John Morgan 18 September
Questions surround data used to reject UK post-study work visas Government*s lead migration adviser admits graduate earnings information is &not as good as we would like* By John Morgan 18 September
Russian tension with West &further weakening* research links Data on international collaboration show cross-border authorship share falling over recent years By Simon Baker 18 September
Number of academics working beyond 65 in UK doubles Data unclear on whether older scholars are keeping younger researchers out of jobs By Jack Grove 17 September