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Tory manifesto pledge brings questions over Office for Students’ future approach on quality - and whether it is right organisation to judge

But paper from League of European Research Universities says that anonymous reports of research misconduct should be avoided

Bid to help lower-income students study poverty bypasses normal admissions processes but still sports a hefty price tag

Texas A&M University System chancellor’s public letter to Harvard president is latest incident in ongoing “food fight” between the two institutions over debated healthiness of eating red meat

Debate continues over the withdrawal of a “dissent” course last year at Yale-NUS 

Analysis highlights Australians’ dwindling share of enrolments in their own universities

Return to table reflects ongoing string of advances for open science movement

Universities will come together to offer joint degree programmes and research projects

Universities minister says north-south divide cannot be solved ‘in a top-down way, driven by central government diktat’

Academics claim that, as well as impoverishing some institutions, removal of number controls has led to overcrowding at other institutions

About 180 students affected by turmoil at Richmond, the American University of London, with some having travelled to the UK before learning of problems

Research grants that have languished in Australian politicians’ to-do trays are ‘spun’ as rapid government action

Almost a third of staff in UK higher education are now classed as teaching-only

Research England throws weight behind new innovation project that promises to raise nearly £1 billion in private capital

Australian university joins race to control virus

Big increase would represent less than three-quarters of eligible headcount suggested by official data

Inability to begin reruns of experiments highlights the problem of weak methodologies of journal papers, say Center for Open Science director

Open University head says that students should be randomly allocated if a university is oversubscribed

The president and dean of the Asian Institute of Management tells Joyce Lau that being an introverted leader and a minority has taught her empathy

Chinese students worth at least £1.7 billion to sector, representing more than 10 per cent of revenue at several institutions 

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

Tributes paid to ‘insightful’ agricultural ecologist who applied his theoretical understanding to food production around the world

A growing number of data detectives are on the hunt for sloppy science and dodgy statistics. Jack Grove examines the methods they use

Michael Spence tells THE/Toronto event that maintaining conversations at staff and student level is ‘incredibly important’ in face of rising tensions

New Zealand analysis of ‘globally unique’ dataset repudiates common justifications for earnings disparities

Academics cheer for end of ‘exploited’ system but urge institutions to learn from experience

Internal documents reveal rapid shift to South Asia in Australian university’s international operations

Institutions launch courses focused on top brands and spirits to boost international recruitment

Complaint to Charity Commission alleges that funding to university was suspended, but foundation chair rejects claims as ‘without merit’

Cornell-based centre asks candidates to assemble in teams and submit joint proposals to boost collaboration

Union condemns ‘short-sighted’ suspension of institution-funded research leave, saying move amounts to ‘institutional self-sabotage’

Hong Kong experts, drawing on experiences from the 2003 Sars epidemic, emphasise transparency

Staff nerves fray as whistleblower row university calls time on course

Birmingham v-c to step down from pension fund board this August

Ahead of a new law that critics fear will reduce tenure rights, French scientists have opposed CNRS chief’s full-throated support for competition

UCL academic ‘staggered by the levels of mistrust’ shown as institutions ‘over-comply’ with ����Vlog Office policy

Plans opposed by islanders who consider Mauna Kea to be sacred ground

Scholars welcome new ethics training for doctoral students but want broader action to improve awareness

Success rate for Chinese doctoral applicants now well below other significant source countries

Academics and researchers grapple with the latest challenge of a catastrophic summer

UCU report examines how academics on insecure contracts are ‘vulnerable and open to exploitation’

Analysis of Unesco and OECD data suggests that, on the surface, spending has rebounded – but some fundamental aspects of higher education investment may have been permanently altered

University’s leader pledges effective climate response, not ‘symbolic’ actions

Former minister calls for ‘in trouble’ apprenticeship levy to be reformed into skills and ‘lifelong learning levy’

A ‘deficit-centric discourse’ is obscuring the benefits of partially completed courses, Australian research finds

Yukon University will offer its own degrees and combine Western and Indigenous approaches to science

Many campuses on continent lack basic scientific tools

Academics say there has been a shift in guidelines on philanthropy but changes are likely to remain superficial

Sector leaders emphasise potential role that country’s academics could play in finding solutions to global challenges

Share of country’s research involving international collaboration more than halves as domestic publications surge

Mental and financial survival are prioritised, as government and universities chart recovery efforts

New organisation should help build partnerships between academics and content developers

Richard Horton says periodicals can no longer sit ‘passively waiting’ for submissions and should instead focus on issues such as the UN Sustainable Development Goals

Prime minister acting as education minister after departure of Maszlee Malik

Arbitrator finds campus unfairly limited hours to avoid having to provide tuition fee benefits

Figures mark end of trend that has seen the share of students gaining the top degree class double since 2009-10

The Foulkes Foundation Medal-winning immunologist on open science, adjusting to the UK climate and why women scientists still face bias

IE University in Madrid wanted to grow so, in a crowded city, it decided to build upwards

Participation in assessment likely to be a condition of receiving Research England funding from 2020-21

Catholic institution hires TEQSA chief executive who led QAA and Ucas