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Two genetics experts with series of shared attributes enjoy collaborating, but suspect coincidences not bloodlines

Universities should avoid rushed assumptions about Covid’s financial impacts and its effects on study plans, survey suggests

Science committee hears evidence of ‘shocking’ levels of under-representation of ethnic minority experts at research council meetings

Philosopher A. C. Grayling says scholars should not fight digitisation but should seek to protect academic freedom and avoid the creation of a gig economy

Grant reviewers should close the circle by evaluating final reports, and recipients should spend the money as they see fit

Plans for a legal statute to smooth cross-border working were embraced by those struggling with national reforms, but most EU governments are getting cold feet

Some institutions lost about a tenth of their non-academic workforce in main year of pandemic

Informatics faculty turns its hand to creating tools to help civilians and hamper Russian attacks

Slump in applications to country’s biggest tertiary admissions centre aligns with anecdotal reports that universities are struggling to find students

Harvard insists it is ‘important not to conflate’ actions of a government with academics’ nationality in light of Ukraine invasion

Science minister sets up working group to examine how academics can move more freely between public and private research

Vocational and higher education get equal billing, as Australian university groups unite in jobs-focused election spiel

Institutions cannot ‘in good conscience’ partner with Russian counterparts while Ukraine war continues, says Chris Philp

Universities UK raises concern about ‘requires improvement’ TEF rating and overall administrative burden

While all US states exempt non-profit organisations, communities under financial stress renew push for campuses to contribute voluntarily

Radical measures to combat bullying in UK science may backfire, warns sector bullying lead, but ex-research council head urges boldness

Approach will aid those who are already able to get ahead, critics warn

Annual measure offers significant aid increases for low-income and minority students, more modest gains for research spending

Flagship campus resumes full autumn admissions plans after legislature exempts it from environmental ruling, but promises fixes to housing crisis

Police, politicians, doctors, cleaners and school students share Southern Cross campus as an emergency base

Research-intensive universities step up Russia boycott measures as UK Research and Innovation turns off funding over Ukraine invasion

Union leaders insist support for further strikes is strong but new pressures may harden university leaders’ resolve, experts warn

Crisis spotlights Russia-linked donations in UK after MP starts plan to force transparency on universities’ foreign funding

Just weeks into Russia’s war on Ukraine, academics are leaving the country, in what could be the beginning of a new brain drain

Data useful ‘if considered in context’, Australian university says, but union insists its publication is ‘dangerous’

Australian study probes the difficulties facing latter-year students – and the ‘balancing act’ required of their lecturers

Authorities to debate changes to master’s and PhD enrolment systems

Genetics expert Magnuson leaves vice-chancellor post saying he inadvertently copied online text into grant application

Dispute over indigenous knowledge ‘not amenable to resolution’, investigation panel finds, as New Zealand society pledges ‘helpful and constructive’ dialogue

Scholars optimistic despite 490,000 learners still waiting to enter country, with recent survey showing 53 per cent struggle with ‘serious mental health issues’

Newly elected Sorbonne president Nathalie Drach-Temam says scholars will not back away from controversial subjects and that she has no desire to profit from British academia’s Brexit woes

New guidelines for undergraduates to properly treat their study subjects fuels debate over net gain for science

Proposal to ‘link performance and funding’ the latest in an interventionist trend

Union announces new ballot as disputes over pay and pensions remain unresolved

Identification of 100,000 eligible borrowers cast as first step to fulfill long-promised relief for teachers and others in public and non-profit jobs

Supporters say student engagement could lead to a ‘less radicalised’ student body, but fear more political meddling in institutional decisions

Uncertainty around UK’s future in EU research, plus shortage of domestic funding beyond Oxbridge, drove ERC grant holder to swap Southampton for Bergen

First randomised controlled trials of doctoral writing classes find major improvements in researcher confidence and study habits

Reflecting nation’s angry partisan tone, admissions advisers’ association mutes online exchange, and sister group weighs shunning Texas

Veto powers not unique to the ARC, medical research funder says – although they are not exercised elsewhere

South Yorkshire town without university plots recovery from deindustrialisation via innovation and skills ‘ecosystem’, winning OECD praise

The Ukraine war has led to unprecedented curtailment of academic ties, but could breaking off all relations with Russia cause further problems?

National Audit Office says regulator must do more to ‘build trust’ with sector and DfE should clarify level of ‘tolerance for provider failure’

Students welcome turnaround, which comes after January announcement that US State Department had shuttered the scheme

IRU’s pre-election manifesto for university sector also recommends adoption of the UK’s Haldane principle

Sweeping sanctions suggest international collaboration could become fragmented into regional power blocs, says sector leader

After a decade of growing together, top US faculty association set to organise inside second-biggest teacher union

Top Australian university sidelined from rich fellowship scheme over ‘unacceptable’ lack of diversity in honorary doctorates

Student number controls idea seen as response to ‘handing over levers’ to shape English provision in 2010 switch to loans-based system

THE research finds that high share of global institutions fail to provide relevant documentation, despite claiming to have numerous measures aimed at supporting women

Nine out of 10 staff who responded to survey want new rule to be rescinded

Industrial relations umpire overturns finding that information implicitly identifies individual staff

‘Big-picture thinkers’ would set national priorities, sidestep electoral cycles and deal with ‘boundary issues’ involving indigenous knowledge

Heads of learned institutions back Putin in the ‘most difficult decision in his life’

Levelling-up plans for ‘innovation accelerators’ bring hope for local decisions on R&D, but warnings against Whitehall’s ‘Stanford-Silicon Valley’ concept

Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal accused of disrespect towards administrators and monarchy

Institutions set to sign up to new guidelines promising to ‘prioritise the interests of applicants’

University’s internal debate about the pros and cons mirrors live discussions elsewhere

With data showing better post-secondary pathway, administration wants more job-oriented course offerings

University and College Union members will again walk out over pay, pensions and working conditions