Members of BCU UCU threaten strike action after university told staff to leave if they do not agree with its transformation plan timeshighereducation.com/news/birmingha… via Juliette Rowsell

Breaking: outgoing Nottingham Trent vice-chancellor Edward Peck picked as next Office for Students chair timeshighereducation.com/news/nottingha…

Latest Teaching Excellence Framework estimated to have cost the English HE sector more than £15 million, but most students are unaware of it timeshighereducation.com/news/tef-cost-… via Paddy Jack

UCU steps back from immediate ballot for industrial action over pay, but strikes remain a possibility for the start of the next academic year timeshighereducation.com/news/ucu-drops… via Juliette Rowsell

Members of UCU Edinburgh accuse University of Edinburgh of using UK HE’s financial crisis as smokescreen for “incredibly arbitrary” job cuts timeshighereducation.com/news/edinburgh… via Juliette Rowsell

Bolton MP Phil Brickell MP calls for independent investigation into financial arrangements of University of Greater Manchester after being “inundated” with allegations of “concerning practices” timeshighereducation.com/news/bolton-mp… via Thomas Williams

Welsh govt may step in to protect courses if review identifies subjects of 'strategic importance' put at risk by university cuts, says minister timeshighereducation.com/news/welsh-sub… via Thomas Williams

“I don’t see us getting any bigger over the next five years. If we are to grow, it will be only in areas where there is student demand or to meet particular research needs. And it may well be that we shrink in some areas.” timeshighereducation.com/news/end-notti… via Thomas Williams

Launch emergency fund to protect university jobs, UCU tells ministers, warning 5,000 posts have already been axed this academic year and more are set to follow timeshighereducation.com/news/universit… via Juliette Rowsell

Universities should be able to sort out their financial issues on their own and avoid “moral hazard” of having to be bailed out by government, prospective OfS chair Edward Peck tells MPs timeshighereducation.com/news/governmen… via Thomas Williams

Hundreds of overseas PhD candidates have paid the Australian government more than half a million dollars to process visa applications that appear to have been frozen indefinitely by a computer glitch. timeshighereducation.com/news/computer-…

Early international enrolment data indicates why some big UK universities are cutting jobs so deeply - recruitment down 37% at Sheffield, 33% at Leeds, 24% at Southampton, 21% at Newcastle timeshighereducation.com/news/overseas-… via Paddy Jack

Kingston University's acclaimed philosophy centre set to close under plans to shut institution's humanities department, also ending degrees in English literature timeshighereducation.com/news/kingston-… via Jack Grove

Big chunk of “swing to science” at degree level driven by shifts in ethnic make-up of school-leavers, says @hepi-news.bsky.social report by Peter Mandler.bsky.social warning policymakers to be “more modest” about ability to drive changes in subject choice timeshighereducation.com/news/growing-d…

University of Cambridge’s under-fire veterinary school will continue to accept admissions following student and union protests timeshighereducation.com/news/cambridge… via Juliette Rowsell

It's a huge privilege to succeed John Gill as editor of Times Higher Education. Big shoes to fill, but we've got a great team - and at this moment the sector needs independent, critical journalism more than ever before timeshighereducation.com/news/new-edito…

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