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It's a huge privilege to succeed @JG_THE as editor of @timeshighered. 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/new…
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/new… via @JulietteRowsell
“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/new… via @TWilliamsTHE
Members of @ucuedinburgh accuse University of Edinburgh of using UK HE’s financial crisis as smokescreen for “incredibly arbitrary” job cuts timeshighereducation.com/new… via @JulietteRowsell
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/new… via @paddywjack
Members of @bcu_ucu threaten strike action after university told staff to leave if they do not agree with its transformation plan timeshighereducation.com/new… via @JulietteRowsell
Hong Kong universities asked to hand back a third of their reserves - around £400 million - back to the island's cash-strapped government timeshighereducation.com/new… via @Helen_Packer
University of Edinburgh to cut about £140 million from its budget, with jobs set to go following announcement branded “devastating” by unions timeshighereducation.com/new… via @JulietteRowsell
Dozens of higher education institutions have appealed to the English regulator for permission to publish their accounts late timeshighereducation.com/new… via @paddywjack
Gap in university entry rates between London’s poorest and richest pupils expected to continue to grow to “unprecedented levels”, warns London Higher timeshighereducation.com/new… via @JulietteRowsell
Lack of information and narrowing of subjects at A level means students potentially being “locked into” university options they are not happy with, says @joshfreemanUK in @HEPI_news report timeshighereducation.com/new… via @JulietteRowsell
University of Edinburgh warns it may need to close programmes or schools to fend off deficit - principal says "nothing is off the table" timeshighereducation.com/new… via @jgro_the
National observatory for research careers to track where the UK’s PhD graduates work could provide valuable insights into whether it still pays to get a doctorate timeshighereducation.com/new… via @jgro_the
Science minister Patrick Vallance has said he is more focused on ensuring the UK’s research budget is spent effectively than securing the biggest possible budget for his department timeshighereducation.com/new… via @jgro_the
UK universities make lowest number of unconditional offers for a decade, but they remain “one of the few recruitment levers still left to pull” for some less selective institutions timeshighereducation.com/new… via @paddywjack