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Conservative ex-universities ministers aim to force government into rowing back on plans to allow universities to be sued over free speech

Academics suggest the answers to the hard lessons that Fifa is learning now should have been obvious from the experience of higher education institutions in the Gulf state

Narrow line between success and failure in latest round of Australian competitive grant funding

Politicians and sector leaders respond strongly to reports Westminster government could restrict foreign students to ‘elite universities’ only

Sir Jeremy Farrar delivers Royal Society’s annual Science and Civilisation lecture

Return of grants after almost a decade of loans could create an enrolment surge in an already straining system

After government reaffirms LLE support, post-18 education review chair remains ‘apprehensive’ while OU v-c sees ‘big design challenges’

Arrivals in country soar following rollback of Covid-era travel restrictions

On the picket lines in Cambridge, union members insist this year’s 3 per cent rise is nowhere near enough to contend with spiralling living costs

‘Renaissance’ ideals of integrity may mean little to the sharing economy generation, Australian conference hears

Australian public service chief rails against scale in call for “alternatives” to huge comprehensive institutions

The war studies professor on Ukraine, writing speeches for Tony Blair and late career fame on Substack

Hepi report says long, free-form format is ‘incompatible’ with fair admissions code and calls for switch to short-response questions

Postgraduate researchers respond positively to online-offline support packages but purely online contact is less valued, finds Advance HE survey

Incoming staff and students risk losing jobs and funding over delayed checks in ‘sensitive’ fields

Authorities to inspect institutions ‘one by one’ amid concern institutions are being overzealous in their application of Covid-19 restrictions

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Office for National Statistics survey shows students are also considering pausing their studies or switching to remote learning

Central reporting depersonalises attacks and helps police spot patterns, according to prominent vaccine scholar who has faced threats

LSE historian accuses journal of ‘compromising intellectual quality in favour of identity politics’

Chris Skidmore urges universities to demonstrate how international students cross-subsidise course places for domestic classmates

For all their collegiality, pay disparity in Australian universities is ‘not out of step’ with big business

US institutions continue to dominate 2022 Global University Employability Ranking

Too many European policymakers see universities as ‘knowledge factories’ that exist to serve state interests, according to College of Europe professor

Articulating numerical goals can focus efforts, commentators say, but not always in the right direction

New university pathway meant to boost talent, but academics concerned over graduate retention

Leading institutions are not ‘lining their pockets’ by shifting recruitment to international students, says analysis, and situation for less prestigious campuses is even worse

Australian study suggests simply reinstating on-campus tests may not have much effect

Discussing growing influence of philanthropic donors, experts stress need for transparency and careful thinking

Authors say Omani findings could help drive education reform

Cleaners, security guards and catering staff set to be on picket lines alongside UCU colleagues

Westminster government provides £30 million for ‘talent and stabilisation fund’ and pumps extra £100 million of quality-related support into English universities

Sector should use review to break free from internal preoccupation and ‘utilitarian’ focus on private domestic benefit, conference hears

Speaking on eve of strikes, new chair George Boyne says affordability is ‘the big constrictor’

Move seen as a way of strengthening links between academia and policymakers to ensure parliamentarians have access to latest scholarship

Academic research leaders welcome shift from Trump hostilities but see unnecessary limits on foreigners in US labs, and uncertainties over unification of disclosure rules

Chancellor heralds switch of investment zone focus to higher education institutions in ‘left-behind areas’

Analysis reveals which UK universities have the widest gender pay gaps

Fourth edition of ‘very effective’ programme will look more closely at recruitment processes and science disciplines

Classicist hopes her retirement will allow more of the ‘precariat’ to get a foot on the academic career ladder

English regulator focuses on law, business and computing courses not meeting thresholds for continuation, completion and progression

Biden-backed settlement benefits 200,000 students from 153 institutions, largely in the for-profit sector, with no expectation taxpayers will be reimbursed for the losses

Ongoing faceoff with administrators, which began with demand to raise stipends, leaves two students in hospital

Institutions having to make more direct interventions as cost-of-living crisis bites with little sign of help from Westminster

High turnout among college-aged voters helps Democrats, but renewed Republican control of House may limit their payback on affordability and equity

Northumbria named University of the Year and Dame Mary Beard honoured at ‘Oscars of higher education’

Economist released weeks after being sentenced to three years’ imprisonment over ‘trumped up’ charges

Sector leaders acknowledge long-term problems with pay and say now is the time to resolve them after union promises strikes

Chancellor also announces that investment zones will be refocused to centre on universities in ‘left-behind areas’ driving growth sectors

UUKi report records 12.7 per cent increase in transnational education headcount in space of a year

Scholars express ‘deep concern’ over recent decrees banning women from public places and reinstating sharia

Universities told to spend 5 per cent of total income on equality programmes after report finds UN 2030 goal ‘highly unlikely’ to be met

Data hint at progress in ‘improving the pipeline’ of female researchers

Don’t wait for governments to act, say university leaders

Author of centenary report on UK adult education says plans as they stand unlikely to undo decades of neglect

Difficult decisions require uncomfortable truths, epidemiologist tells Pacific Rim universities

Steve West also calls on politicians to ‘get serious’ about solution to declining university funding

Latest DfE appointee tells event he does not want the policy debate ‘to be about Oxbridge, Oxbridge, Oxbridge’

Dozens of publishers have disclosed cost data as part of next stage of European-led open access push but ‘big two’ are absent

Non-partisan panel asked to update access targets and complete Bradley review’s unfinished business