US: Poll results may mean tighter university budgets

The recent midterm elections in the US - in which the Republicans gained control of the House of Representatives and some key governors' offices - are likely to add to the financial pressures on colleges and universities, writes Scott Jaschik for Inside Higher Ed.

Although Republicans did not focus on higher education in their Congressional campaigns, they vowed to roll back federal spending in most areas unrelated to the military or national security. If the Republicans keep their promise, higher education institutions could see an end to the generous increases in federal student aid and research programmes that they have enjoyed in the first two years of the Obama administration.
Full report on the Times Higher Education site