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‘The current court has clearly shown its willingness to directly overturn past precedents in order to achieve conservative policy goals, and I don’t see why this case would be different,’ says sociologist

Having a name that takes longer to pronounce also associated with employment at a lower-ranked institution

Deemed surplus to needs as their university amassed a A$200 million buffer, UWA social scientists find welcome at Curtin

Letter urges Baroness Hale and Lord Reed to step back from Law Quarterly Review and Criminal Law Review until diversity improved

Switch to aggregated voting means staff at 149 UK universities could walk out if union gets majority turnout and support

New approach ‘a great outcome’ for those fearing impacts of the ‘most bone-headed idea ever’

Ucas analysis suggests online learning may not have suited students with disabilities, who were more inclined to delay their degree

Existing students able to complete courses as usual, but universities face question mark over autumn recruitment

Marketing should include data on dropout rates and graduate outcomes, English institutions told

Regulator warns on dependency on Chinese students and potential impact of cost-of-living crisis, despite overall positive picture

Fewer scholars from Italy, Germany, France and Netherlands working in British universities, says report

UUK letter to minister says it is â€˜unclear what evidence is available’ to back claim that external schemes threaten free speech and requests meeting

Universities’ difficulties in addressing their share of a national crisis may ease demand, but turning away ambitious foreigners is still a ‘missed opportunity’ for the country

Policy welcome, but Japan ‘must address uncertainty’ around future Covid waves, academics say

While policy incentivises retention, approved leaves of absence are counted as attrition

Vote on whether to accept constitution that would overturn decades of private-led education said to be on a knife-edge

Bill opens door to ‘vexatious’ lawsuits against universities and to ministerial ‘control-freakery’ on overseas funding, warn Lord Willetts and Lord Johnson

Move to ‘break down barriers’ and create ‘parity of esteem’ through whole system approach seen as potential model for England

Religious requirements tripled, forcing some institutions to make cuts to core courses

Analysis suggests philosophy professor’s old department may net as much as £333,000 from the activities that saw her targeted by activists

Latin American leader aims to hire 100 elite faculty, drawing needed talent to developing world

While Covid may have ushered record numbers of Australians to university, a chipper labour market is luring them away again

The number of assignments per term has been going up and up; is continuous assessment now harming, rather than helping, students’ learning?

Expanded government support will fund two-year research fellowships for 130 Ukrainian academics, says science minister

Estimated 180,000 students – mostly low-income women – face disruption to academic careers as states allowed to forbid female healthcare

Dearth of data undermines understanding of cancel culture and other campus codes of silence

Higher education analysts mull China’s continued attractiveness as a student destination amid its zero-Covid policy and scant foreign student returnees

Parisian professor says hers is the first to appoint a selection committee by lot, an approach that should be taken up nationwide

English institutions told to ‘reflect carefully’ on whether initiatives such as Race Equality Charter are in conflict with duty to uphold free speech

Office for Students accounts also confirm £915,000 payment to for-profit college that successfully challenged refusal of registration in court

Starmer also expected to consider ‘fudge’ manifesto pledge to review university funding, with party set to drop Corbyn-era policy

Sole courtroom victor in three years of prosecutions says jurors needed to hear that institutions went along, and then believe that nobody was hurt

While some fields have been exempted from a contentious imposition on international doctoral students, sector still fears overkill

Ditching high-profile pledge to spend £300 million more on maths research over next five years will harm under-pressure discipline, experts warn

World’s biggest bibliographic database claims MetaDoor is ‘misappropriating’ its catalogue to drive it out of business

President must learn to work with a fragmented parliament, but experts say likely allies will back his push to liberalise higher education

Universities urged to rule out taking advantage of planned redrawing of UK legislation

Winners of internal competitions will not be eligible for research council grants, as power shifts to government

Administration moves to reverse Trump mandate for in-person hearings and expand protections to transgender students

An internalised, colonial-era emphasis on exam grades is preventing students from deeper learning, forum hears

Change is finally beginning to happen across higher education but campaigners say structural change is needed, not sticking plasters

Big publishers finding switch away from paywalls challenging, says European-led coalition

Two-thirds of institutions responding to IIE survey report increase in interest

Science leaders beg Ursula von der Leyen to break political impasse

Analysis of ‘true economic value’ of sector says staff are essentially subsidising a broken system

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

European doctoral body says funders must recognise that current financial support is often insufficient for PhD researchers

The human geographer talks about her work with stateless groups, the importance of collaboration and why the stereotype of a map-wielding explorer is important in confronting her subject’s imperial legacies

Survey finds UK undergraduates appear a lot less supportive of free speech than they were six years ago

Lab-by-lab approach determining who gets credit and who doesn’t must be replaced by more comprehensive policies, researchers say

Former attorney general turned security professor says avoiding ‘overreach’ is as important as protecting public safety

In bleak assessment, AAUP finds full-time wages up 2 per cent, but down 5 per cent after inflation, falling below recession levels

Choice of former Darpa director to replace Lander affirms growing government-wide shift towards emphasising applied research

Despite known risk, politicians from states with weak science records push dramatic expansion of affirmative-action-style set-asides for federal dollars

Western scholars may be taken aback by job negotiations in a country where universities rarely reward merit over seniority

Australian educators demand ‘clarity’ on whether pandemic concessions will be extended

Position will be used to ‘keep universities on a shorter leash’ and ‘pre-empt any potential dissent’, academics say

Korea’s soft power is only part of the explanation, with Seoul pumping millions into opening Korean language academies around the world, professor says

Female scholars grossly under-represented on editorial boards of public health and environmental science publications, says Cambridge-led study

University’s ‘strong’ financial results energise union calls for job security and pay rises