Poor-quality degrees are “tarnishing the reputation” of England’s universities, the higher education regulator has said, as it pledged to crack down on franchise courses and teaching that does not ...

UK graduates who finished first degrees in 2024 are more likely to be unemployed, unpaid or working part-time than previous cohorts, but AI has not been the biggest factor, according to official data ...

The gap between corporate India’s public optimism and household and investor anxiety has become increasingly apparent ...

The Chinese drugmakers with the strongest research and development pipelines stand to benefit from this trend more than others. Hengrui Pharma, which recently licensed an experimental weight-loss pill ...

EQT has agreed to buy German diagnostics group Qiagen in a deal valued at €10.8bn, marking one of the largest take-private transactions in Europe this year.

The London Stock Exchange Group is nearing a deal to acquire credit specialist Octus from Permira for $3.5bn, in a move that would bolster LSEG’s financial data services for customers. LSEG and Octus ...

Treasury secretary Scott Bessent told investors in a private meeting that he did not see a “systemic problem” with the AI boom, playing down concerns that the industry is in a bubble like the one that ...

The US state department has ordered some personnel to leave Saudi Arabia amid increasing attacks from Iran-backed Houthi militants on the kingdom.

Filings show the party and its affiliated groups have amassed a big war chest but polling favours Democrats in many races ...

Tesla’s quarterly profits declined on weakening sales of its automotive and energy-storage businesses, a day after Elon Musk said it would be a “good idea” to merge the carmaker with SpaceX. Adjusted ...

The European Commission on Wednesday asked member states to hold off on pursuing their demand for cheaper fees for EU students at British universities until after a planned November 20 summit, ...

Researchers used OpenAI models to find severe faults in software used on majority of websites around the world ...