Chris Havergal
@chrishavergal.bsky.social
Editor, @timeshighered.bsky.social
PM commits £1 billion for regional innovation clusters over next four years www.timeshighereducation.com/news/burnham... via @francesjones.bsky.social
Burnham tasks UKRI with diverting £1 billion to regional clusters
UK research agency to play a central role in prime minister’s ‘innovation agenda’, but union seeks clarity on organisation’s budget changes after recent physics cuts
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Thinktank @ukandeu.bsky.social to close at the end of this year after losing @ukri.org funding www.timeshighereducation.com/news/kings-b... via @seher-education.bsky.social
King’s Brexit thinktank to close after losing funding
Director of UK in a Changing Europe announces it will shut at end of the year
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Newcastle and Westminster are latest UK universities to end Turnitin contracts, following Southampton - others say they are reviewing their use of the tool www.timeshighereducation.com/news/more-un... via @georgialouluck.bsky.social
More universities end Turnitin contracts as concerns mount
Newcastle and Westminster join Southampton in decision not to renew deal with plagiarism checker amid questions over how once-ubiquitous service is adapting to AI age
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Another month, another fall in applications for UK student visas - September tally was down 10.3% on last year www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-stud... via @jgro-the.bsky.social
UK student visa applications fell sharply in September
Latest Home Office statistics show student visa bids hit five-year low for pivotal recruitment month
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Tories say that ministers must urgently come up with a clear plan for what would happen to students left stranded by university closures www.timeshighereducation.com/news/labour-... via @georgialouluck.bsky.social
Happy 55th birthday this month to @timeshighered.bsky.social! Today we profile the golden generation of journalists who got the title off the ground, and how they helped to forge the sense of a unified higher education sector www.timeshighereducation.com/depth/times-...
Peter Mathieson to step down as University of Edinburgh principal in 2028 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/peter-m... via @jgro-the.bsky.social
Peter Mathieson to step down as Edinburgh vice-chancellor
Leader of strike-hit Scottish institution will not seek third term of office
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University of Nottingham confirms it will close its music and languages departments as it presses ahead with more than 500 job cuts despite widespread opposition from staff and students www.timeshighereducation.com/news/notting... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Nottingham confirms course closures with hundreds of jobs affected
Languages and music departments to close despite strikes and protests but university insists it has addressed staff concerns in revised plans
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Leading Chinese physicists condemn UK Research and Innovation’s “irresponsible” decision to withdraw funding from an upgrade to an experiment at Cern www.timeshighereducation.com/news/chinese... via @francesjones.bsky.social
Chinese scientists criticise ‘troubling’ UKRI funding withdrawal
Unusual public rebuke from China comes amid questions about whether the country may take over the UK’s leadership role, relinquished earlier this year
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Research funding network that used artificial intelligence to reject half of the grant proposals to its latest funding call has committed to redoing the review process www.timeshighereducation.com/news/grant-p... via @francesjones.bsky.social
Grant proposals rejected by ‘AI triage’ to be reassessed
CRANE says it will look again at all applications from recent cybersecurity research funding call after backlash against non-human review
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arXiv’s new preprint submission cap - two per month per author - divides academics www.timeshighereducation.com/news/arxivs-... via @francesjones.bsky.social
arXiv’s new preprint submission cap divides opinion
Some hail preprint server’s two papers per month policy move for promoting ‘quality over quantity’, but others question cap’s scientific implications
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Several universities in France have closed their campuses after university students joined a nationwide youth protest and blocked access to institutions across the country www.timeshighereducation.com/news/several... via @seher-education.bsky.social
Several French campuses close amid expanding student protests
University students have joined a massive revolt against the education system in the country, mounting blockades at dozens of institutions
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UK universities urged to implement final pay rise offer of 2% uplift, depsite it being rejected by the sector's five trade unions www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
UK universities told to implement 2 per cent pay uplift
Employers’ body instructs members to implement final pay offer as further negotiations fail to resolve impasse with unions
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100+ academics linked to UK institutions have unknowingly contributed to projects funded by a research institute “with very strong ties” to China’s intelligence service, according to MI5 www.timeshighereducation.com/news/mi5-iss... via @rosalindskillen.bsky.social
MI5 issues China espionage warning to UK universities
Universities have urgently been told to review their ties with Chinese research institute after spy warning
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Bucks New University student visa sponsor licence suspended www.timeshighereducation.com/news/bucks-n... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Bucks New University student visa sponsor licence suspended
Bucks New University has been suspended from issuing student visas, the Home Office has announced
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Hundreds of UK university students are still waiting for marks after this summer’s assessment boycotts, with some unable to graduate yet www.timeshighereducation.com/news/hundred... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Hundreds of students still without marks after boycotts – union
Learners left unable to graduate or progress by ‘last resort’ industrial action
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Kurdish academic faces trial in Turkey over US doctoral thesis www.timeshighereducation.com/news/kurdish... via @seher-education.bsky.social
Kurdish academic faces trial in Turkey over US doctoral thesis
Germany-based sociologist Güllistan Yarkin has been accused of ‘public denigration of the Turkish state’ over passages relating to treatment of Kurds and the Armenian genocide
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Academics express dismay as AI used to reject half the grant proposals in a UKRI-funded call www.timeshighereducation.com/news/ai-only... via @francesjones.bsky.social
AI-only research grant rejection in UKRI-funded call sparks alarm
Artificial intelligence used to cull half of applications submitted by cybersecurity scholars, before they got to human eyes
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Raising tuition fees in England is the least popular education policy Andy Burnham could adopt, while universities are the lowest priority for government investment, new polling reveals www.timeshighereducation.com/news/voters-...
Voters sour on increasing tuition fees and university funding
Polling suggests sector is public’s lowest priority for education investment
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EU moves to restore Horizon Europe access for Hungary www.timeshighereducation.com/news/eu-move... via @seher-education.bsky.social
EU moves to restore Horizon Europe access for Hungary
Universities which were once barred from funding because of their governance model could soon regain full access to the programme
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Leaders at Ormiston Academies Trust have paid tribute to an ‘extraordinary man’ and the trust's chair, Julius Weinberg, who died this week
Tributes paid after death of trust chair Julius Weinberg
Ormiston Academies Trust recalls ‘extraordinary man’ whose career encompassed medicine, education and public service
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"I know there’s this whole principle about…not having too much political interference. But I think things have gone the other way, where a lack of accountability has led to some bizarre, funny decisions, and this is ultimately public money." www.timeshighereducation.com/news/haldane...
Haldane won’t stop us defunding ‘bizarre’ research, Tories say
Shadow science secretary eyes ‘far clearer strategic objectives and priorities’ for UK Research and Innovation
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@britishlibrary.bsky.social names former @ukspaceagency.bsky.social head @paulbate.bsky.social as new chief executive www.timeshighereducation.com/news/british... via @jgro-the.bsky.social
British Library names ex-UK space boss as new chief executive
Last incumbent left suddenly amid industrial action and in wake of devastating cyberattack
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Long-running strike action marking the start of the academic year on UK university campuses being driven by new wave of union militancy and could serve as “test case” for wider walkouts, experts say www.timeshighereducation.com/news/uk-univ... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
UK universities face autumn of chaos as ‘prolonged’ strikes planned
Unprecedentedly long strikes at Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee could be the shape of things to come, observers say
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Russell Group backs higher fees as £3,000 loss per student revealed www.timeshighereducation.com/news/russell... via @jgro-the.bsky.social
Russell Group backs higher fees as £3,000 loss per student revealed
Chief executive Libby Hackett says top universities should charge more as scale of teaching deficit is revealed
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‘Difficult political choices’ ahead as Welsh HE review begins, minister @cefincampbell.bsky.social tells @jgro-the.bsky.social www.timeshighereducation.com/news/difficu...
‘Difficult political choices’ ahead as Welsh HE review begins
Education minister Cefin Campbell admits review will not remove the need for tough decisions on how to support both students and universities
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Quite a different - and, I suspect, welcome to many - tone being struck by principal Sally Mapstone as St Andrews tops The Sunday Times Good University Guide.
Destructive game of policy copycat continues, as Australia follows UK in banning most international students from bringing dependants with them www.timeshighereducation.com/news/immigra...
Immigration cuts ‘wipe out Australia’s advantage’
Visa rights canned for dependants of most students and temporary graduates, with transfers to inferior courses also banned
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University of Brighton seeks to redraw union recognition agreements and plans to close Falmer campus www.timeshighereducation.com/news/brighto... via @julietterowsell.bsky.social
Brighton looks to redraw trade union agreements and close campus
UCU and UNISON warn changes to trade union agreements could lead to unions being derecognised
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UKRI should fund fewer, longer research projects, says new science minister, who criticises the grant application process as a "value-destroying activity" www.timeshighereducation.com/news/science... via @jgro-the.bsky.social
Science minister: UKRI should fund ‘fewer, longer awards’
Chris McDonald backs UK Research and Innovation’s demand management push with dig at ‘value-destroying’ peer review
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