Goldsmiths fine art students call for compensation over record tutor strike https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/oct/26/goldsmiths-university-fine-arts-students-call-for-compensation-strikes #GoldsmithsUniversityOfLondon #Students #HigherEducation #Universities #UniversityFunding #InternationalStudents #StudentExperience #Education #IndustrialAction #UkNews
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Goldsmiths fine art students call for compensation over record tutor strike
By Richard Adams Education editorWith industrial action over job cuts heading into its 21st week, students at famed London college are unhappy
#GoldsmithsUniversityofLondon #Students #Highereducation #Universities #Universityfunding #Internationalstudents #Studentexperience #Education #Industrialaction #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardAdamsEducationeditor
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Edinburgh joins UK universities heading for strikes as cuts spread through entire sector
By Sally Weale and Richard AdamsStudents at Edinburgh, Dundee and Nottingham face a term without any teaching as sector struggles with rising financial uncertainty
#Universities #Students #Tradeunions #Universityfunding #Industrialaction #UniversityofNottingham #UniversityofEdinburgh #Universityadministration #Highereducation #Education #UKnews #Politics #UniversityofDundee #TheGuardian #SallyWeale #RichardAdams
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/440957/ Ex-LASU VC’s ₦1m tuition remark misinterpreted – Aide #300LevelLASU #EmmanuelAdeyemi #HikeInTuitionFees #IbiyemiOlatunjiBello #LagosStateUniversity #Nigeria #UniversityFunding
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Thirty Days in the Bank: How Britain’s universities are running out of money, and why almost nobody is shouting about it
https://dominusmarkham.com/thirty-days-in-the-bank/
#UKUniversities #HigherEducation #UniversityFunding #HEcrisis #InternationalStudents #UCU #Hull #BritishPolitics
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https://www.europesays.com/iran/276201/ Scientists at 30 US schools have done military research for Israel #ForeignInfluence #Israel #UniversityFunding #Weapons
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UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students
By Richard Adams and Rowena MasonHigher education figures call on Labour to reverse tax on fees and warn institutions at risk of ‘going under’
#Universityfunding #Internationalstudents #Admissions #Students #Alevels #Highereducation #Universities #Education #UKnews #Politics #TheGuardian #RichardAdams #RowenaMason
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UK universities face ‘financial crisis’ amid collapse in international students https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/aug/13/uk-universities-face-financial-crisis-amid-collapse-in-international-students #UniversityFunding #InternationalStudents #Admissions #Students #Alevels #HigherEducation #Universities #Education #UkNews #Politics
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Government piling debt on to future graduates in England, analysis finds
By Richard Adams Education editorExclusive: Report warns of ‘ticking timebomb’ as cost of higher education ‘falls overwhelmingly on the individual’
#Students #Highereducation #Studentfinance #Admissions #Tuitionfees #Alevels #Universityfunding #Universities #Education #England #UKnews #TheGuardian #RichardAdamsEducationeditor
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/351827/ Ruto defends full state funding for university, college students #EducationFunding #HigherEducation #HuaweiICTAwards #Kenya #KenyaNews #KenyaUniversities #star #StarNews #StarNewsKenya #StarNewspaper #StarNewspaperKenya #StateHouseNairobi #StudentCentredFundingModel #TheStar #TheStarKenya #TheStarNewspaper #UniversityFunding #UniversityStudents #WilliamRuto
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The Guardian view on humanities cuts in universities: academic departments are more than cost centres | Editorial
By EditorialLiterature, the arts and social sciences must not be sacrificed as higher education funding is squeezed
#Highereducation #Universityfunding #Universities #Humanities #Education #Artsandhumanities #UniversityofNottingham #UniversityofExeter #Socialsciences #TheGuardian #Editorial
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Students could be required to pass GCSE English to access university loans https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jun/17/students-pass-gcse-english-university-loans-proposals #Students #Admissions #StudentFinance #DepartmentForEducation #UniversityFunding #Gcses #UniversityAdministration #Universities #HigherEducation #Education #UkNews
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Grade requirement for student loans would cut a financial lifeline for English universities https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/jun/17/grade-requirement-for-student-loans-would-cut-a-financial-lifeline-for-english-universities #Students #HigherEducationPolicy #Admissions #UniversityFunding #UniversityAdministration #StudentFinance #HigherEducation #Universities #Education #UkNews
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UK universities warn of cuts for impoverished students if dire funding issues continue https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/25/uk-universities-cuts-impoverished-students-funding #Students #UniversityFunding #Access #HigherEducation #UniversityAdministration #Universities #Education #UkNews #Inequality #StudentFinance #England
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Sons of jailed Saudi scholars urge Cambridge to drop plans to train Riyadh staff https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/17/sons-scholars-facing-death-penalty-cambrige-judge-business-school-saudi-defence-ministry #UniversityOfCambridge #SaudiArabia #UniversityAdministration #UniversityFunding #HumanRights #HigherEducation #Education #WorldNews #UkNews
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King’s College and Cranfield hope to be stronger together in surprise merger https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/15/kings-college-cranfield-stronger-together-surprise-merger #UniversityMergers #KingsCollegeLondon #CranfieldUniversity #Students #UniversityFunding #HigherEducation #Universities #Education #UkNews
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King’s College London to merge with Cranfield University https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/14/kings-college-london-to-merge-with-cranfield-university #KingsCollegeLondon #CranfieldUniversity #UniversityFunding #Research #OfficeForStudents #UniversityMergers #HigherEducation #Students #Universities #UkNews
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Cambridge University seeks deal with Saudi defence ministry despite rights concerns https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/may/11/cambridge-university-judge-business-school-saudi-defence-ministry #UniversityOfCambridge #UniversityFunding #SaudiArabia #Universities #HigherEducation #Education #UkNews #WorldNews
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https://www.europesays.com/africa/184876/ Education CS Ogamba Promises Smooth Fee Payment for 2026 University Intake #HigherEducation #KCSE2025 #Kenya #KUCCPS #UniversityFunding
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‘Excessive’ financial risks threaten survival of many English universities, report warns https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/apr/09/english-universities-excessive-financial-risks-survival-warns-thinktank #UniversityFunding #Universities #HigherEducation #Education #England #UkNews
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Office for Students faces judicial review over public funding for bible colleges https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/mar/15/office-for-students-judicial-review-public-funding-bible-colleges #OfficeForStudents #HigherEducation #Students #StudentFinance #UniversityFunding #Religion #Education #UkNews #Christianity #England
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Vice-chancellor calls for review into student loans for those without A-levels https://www.theguardian.com/education/2026/mar/06/university-vice-chancellor-review-student-loan-a-levels-education #HigherEducation #UniversityFunding #StudentFinance #UniversityOfBirmingham #Students #Admissions #Universities #Education #UkNews
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Incoming Tallinn University rector: Academic freedom doing great in Estonia | News
It seems to me that Tallinn University has been somewhat hesitant to highlight the fact that your primary…
#Estonia #EE #Europe #Europa #EU #education #Eesti #estonia #HigherEducation #lawyers #ministryofeducationandresearch #priitreiska #tallinnuniversity #Teachertraining #universityfunding #Uudised
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https://www.europesays.com/2807064/ Incoming Tallinn University rector: Academic freedom doing great in Estonia | News #education #Eesti #estonia #HigherEducation #lawyers #MinistryOfEducationAndResearch #PriitReiska #TallinnUniversity #TeacherTraining #UniversityFunding #Uudised
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‘If I think about what this means, I want to cry’: what happens when a city loses its university? https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/04/essex-university-southend-campus-closure-seaside-deprivation #England #UkNews #Students #UniversityFunding #Education #HigherEducation #SocialExclusion #Society #YoungPeople #CommitmentToWideningParticipation #Cities #SocialMobility
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It's no coincidence that, by and large most sources of protest and dissidence around the world have been university humanities faculties AND that governments have attacked and made substantial funding cuts to said faculties. This is part of a wholesale attempt to suppress protest and govt accountability.
Just a few years ago here in Australia, our right-wing federal government doubled the cost of arts degrees (for local students).
This assumption that the humanities only teaches critical thinking is reductive and seems strategically designed to hollow out institutions essential to a free and functioning democracy.
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Petition: Restauration et protection de la mission universitaire au Québec - https://www.assnat.qc.ca/fr/exprimez-votre-opinion/petition/Petition-11733/index.html
Rallumons le phare (Bluesky) : Sans un financement public adéquat, nos universités cessent d’être un levier collectif pour devenir celui des plus fortuné·es. https://sauvonsnosuniversites.ca/financement-des-universites/
Universities need public funding to serve the collective good! https://sauvonsnosuniversites.ca/en/university-funding/
#Rallumerlephare #Financementdesuniversités #RelightTheBeacon #UniversityFunding
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https://www.europesays.com/uk/380277/ University warns of ‘urgent financial challenges’ as new redundancy scheme opens – The Irish News #Britain #Edinburgh #Education #GreatBritain #HigherEducation #ProfessorSirPeterMathieson #Scotland #UK #UnitedKingdom #Universities #UniversityFunding #UniversityOfEdinburgh
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From AP News: Trump administration freezes $339M in UCLA grants and accuses the school of rights violations
https://apnews.com/article/trump-ucla-research-grants-civil-rights-60d9d370ac7a1fb648752e06d4f655c3
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The Freunde der TUM, our #Alumni and Friends Association, has already supported numerous exciting projects. Do you have an #innovative idea for #research as well? Apply now for funding by May 2: http://go.tum.de/909871
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NIH freezes all research grants to Columbia University
https://www.science.org/content/article/nih-freezes-all-research-grants-columbia-university
#HackerNews #NIH #ColumbiaResearch #GrantsFreeze #ScienceNews #UniversityFunding
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The Cuts in UK Higher Education
Today friend of mine send me a message pointing out that in order to save money the University of Sussex is planning to make about 300 staff redundant; you can see an article about it in the Times Higher here. For the time being it seems the plan to make these savings via a voluntary severance scheme. I don’t know whether academic and administrative staff will be treated equally, either.
This is grim news. I worked at Sussex from 2013 until 2016 when I resigned my post as Head of School of Mathematical and Physical Sciences. I took that decision largely for personal reasons but there were professional reasons too. From 2013 the University had embarked on an ambitious growth plan based on buoyant student numbers and the fee income generated thereby. Staff numbers grew too, to cope with the increased demand for teaching. Unfortunately the management was unable to match this with real improvements in infrastructure, largely due to the disastrous outsourcing of campus estates and services. Many promises made to me as Head of School by Senior Management were broken. I wasn’t the only Head of School to compain of this, either. Although things were still going relatively well when I left in 2016, and I was optimistic for the future of the School then, there were severe risks to its financial stability if student recruitment dived. Sadly, that’s exactly what happened. Falling student numbers – especially from overseas – left the institution very vulnerable, especially since the fee per student did not change. That problem was exacerbated by a burst of inflation. AlthoughIt has clearly been a very difficult time for the University of Sussex, largely due to national and international forces beyond its control, but exacerbated by ineffective, and at times incompetent, institutional management.
It worries me that Maynooth University is also trying to grow very quickly, without adequate investment in infrastructure especially teaching. It isn’t increasing the number of academic staff much either, preferring to hire more and more managers; yet another such position was advertised this week. I don’t know whether Maynooth’s financial trajectory will follow that of Sussex. The funding environment is very different in Ireland compared to the UK, so it may not. It is clear that the enviroment for education and research here is being steadily degraded by the current leadership.
Anyway, when I saw the announcement about Sussex, I checked other Universities I’ve worked in over the years. There’s a list here. It seems that while there are particular factors at play at Sussex, there are similar difficulties across the Board. Cardiff University has a deficit of £35 million and the VC has refused to rule out compulsory redundancies there. I’m not sure how this is all affecting the School of Physics & Astronomy. Nottingham University, where I worked from 1999 to 2007, has deficit of £30 million, in response to which it has opened a voluntary severance scheme, introduced hiring freezes, cut non-pay budgets, and refused to renew 500 fixed-term contracts.
There certainly are cold winds blowing across the University landscape in the United Kingdom, and there is no sign of any respite. This is just the start.
#CardiffUniversity #HigherEducation #Sussex #universityFunding #UniversityOfSussex
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Aim for 70% tertiary education takeup by 2040, say UK university chiefs https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/sep/30/aim-for-70-tertiary-education-takeup-by-2040-say-uk-university-chiefs #Universityfunding #Tuitionfees #Students #Admissions
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@tomstafford Is this the kind of data you mean? Net liquidity in days, from the OfS. https://www.officeforstudents.org.uk/publications/navigating-financial-challenges-in-higher-education/
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UK universities face growing struggle to recruit international students https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jul/12/uk-universities-face-growing-struggle-to-recruit-international-students #Internationalstudents #Immigrationandasylum #Universityfunding
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UK universities face ‘irreversible decline’, global league table suggests https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jun/04/uk-universities-face-irreversible-decline-global-league-table-suggests #Universityfunding #ImperialCollegeLondon #Highereducation #Students
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Read the interview with our President Thomas F. Hofmann, who talks about the new round of the #ExcellenceInitiative, which clusters have entered the competition, and what lies ahead: http://go.tum.de/266614
#universityfunding #highereducation
📷A. Eckert
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Yesterday Goldsmiths
Today Kent
Tomorrow - watch your backs#MassacreOfTheHumanities #UniversityFunding #PhilistinePolitics #KentUniversity
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Eight major arms companies give UK universities £100m | openDemocracy
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/universities-millions-defence-companies-israel-gaza/#Universities
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“Universities are independent organisations”.
Except when they’re not, apparently.
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Sunak to force English universities to cap numbers of students on ‘low-value’ degrees | Students | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees#Sunak
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"Labour to begin consulting on new ways to fund university education"
I suggest general taxation. It works well in countries like Denmark, where state-funded education is a lifelong thing, with opportunities also for vocational retraining that reflect real-world economic changes. This is how you should run a dynamic market economy.