Offer students incentives to study in-demand skills, says report Fee forgiveness or more generous student loans could be used to ensure an area’s skills needs are met, argues MillionPlus By Tom Williams 5 December
Professor to sue Cambridge over ‘forced retirement’ rules Institution faces first legal test of its EJRA policy as it grapples with fallout from Oxford tribunal By Tom Williams 5 December
UK to review post-study work visa in drive to cut immigration Graduate route needs fresh look to ‘prevent abuse’, says home secretary, as increase in visa salary thresholds confirmed By Patrick Jack 4 December
Gaza university president killed in Israeli air strike Sufyan Tayeh, head of the Islamic University of Gaza, dies with his family as war resumes By Chris Havergal 4 December
Scholars ‘stumble through’ as British Library tools stay offline Loss of access to EThOS archive of 600,000 doctoral dissertations causes major disruption for PhD students By Jack Grove 4 December
Julie Sanders on making the vice-chancellor job ‘less lonely’ Royal Holloway head discusses decentralising university leadership and tapping into the creative industry in Surrey By Tiya Thomas-Alexander 4 December
Our programmatic approach could earn education research a gold star Too often, studies are atomistic and avoid the more complex, large-scale questions that vex politicians and system leaders, says Andrew Noyes By Andrew Noyes 2 December
Language barrier holds back international academics in Germany Xenophobia and complex career paths also dissuade researchers from pursuing professorships, study finds By Emily Dixon 1 December
Israel’s Gaza border college on ‘healing mission’ after attacks After killings of dozens of students, faculty and staff, and with 1,000 still displaced, Sapir College looks to rebuild and renew By Pola Lem 1 December
Aberdeen set to close language degrees as recruitment nosedives Union pledges to fight ‘academic vandalism’ being consulted on by Scottish university By Jack Grove 30 November
Norway set to relax requirements for full university status In change welcomed by sector leaders, institutions can become fully accredited with only one PhD programme from 2025 By Emily Dixon 30 November
Can troubleshooter vice-chancellors turn universities around? With UK sector in increasing dire financial straits, universities are turning to experienced hands to steady the ship, but is short-termism really what institutions need? By Tom Williams 29 November