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Read our latest updates, press releases and responses to sector news. Our policy experts are available to provide insights across a wide range of higher education and R&D topics. For interview requests and all other media enquiries, see Contact Us to get in touch with our press office.

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Financial sustainability
Education

Response to 2025-26 Strategic Priorities Grant funding

The Russell Group's statement on cuts to the Strategic Priorities Grant funding for 2025-26

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Financial sustainability
Research

DSIT announces new 10-year R&D budget plans

The Russell Group responds to the announcement of plans to support ten-year funding for certain R&D activities

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Announcement
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International students
International

Response to the government's immigration white paper

The Russell Group responds to the government's new white paper and the likely impacts on the university sector

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Financial sustainability
Education

New OfS analysis on the pressures on university finances

The Russell Group responds to the OfS's latest report on the financial sustainability of universities, with continued pressures across the sector

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Research collaboration
International
Research

Global Research-Intensive Universities Network issues Ottawa Declaration

Leading research universities from across the world have issued a joint declaration to call for intensified international collaboration amid international uncertainty

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Financial sustainability
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QR funding
Research

Flexible funding for universities drives research excellence, new analysis shows

A comparison of different nations’ research funding systems reveals the importance of block grants (like quality-related research funding) and maintaining both discovery and applied research

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Financial sustainability
Education

Universities issue joint call for government action to support a secure future for HE

After giving evidence to the House of Commons Education Committee, the Russell Group and Universities UK have highlighted the financial challenges facing the UK's higher education sector

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Announcement
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Economy
Research

Response to DSIT’s R&D budget allocations 2025/26

The Russell Group comments on the confirmed R&D budgets for the year ahead, calling for flexible, longer-term funding like QR to be prioritised

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