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Data on more than 19,000 institutions show Europe lags behind leading anglophone sectors on female leadership

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

Disciplinary-level assessment unlikely to survive in its current form, say sector leaders

Change of guard suggests tough times ahead for leading Australian universities

New centre vows to tackle ‘loss of trust’ driven by technological change

Analysis of data on international co-authorship suggests being an institution under 50 years old benefits networking

Jessica Wade tells THE summit that younger institutions can create better equality policies from scratch

Three British institutions included in new networks despite country’s vote for Brexit

The country’s increasingly similar universities also need to be forced to specialise, argues government advisory body

Planned securitisation deal aimed at improving student experience and ‘market share’, says v-c

Editors say episode demonstrates need for humans to review work of software

Government policy and universities’ commitment to working with business cited as key factors for success in THE University Impact Rankings table

New scorecards demonstrate the payoffs from international collaboration

Chair of England’s post-18 review says Â£7,500 fee a cap a fair deal after ‘windfall’ years and that universities in financial trouble are guilty of ‘bad management’

Jane Hutton says that pension fund is trying to deny her ‘whistleblower’ status

Leeds accused of attempting to extend control of central management by ending practice of selecting heads of school from within the faculty

Sector leaders question why it has taken so long to address long-running decline in value of quality-related research funding

Trump-dominated panel bolsters campuses that reject postgraduate unions

University leaders more likely to have attended Oxford or Cambridge compared with five years ago, but also to have gone to a comprehensive school

Sir Ian Diamond reportedly did not trigger his 12-month notice period until his departure from the university

MPs’ report on UK-India relations also says ‘leading universities’ should be allowed to issue visas direct to ‘the best’ Indian students

Governing body gambit torpedoes court case but further isolates academic senate

Nearly one in five respondents to four-campus study said they feared role change if they underperformed

Calculation by open access campaigners questions supposedly unnecessary spending by publishers on lobbying, marketing and executive pay

Swiss university has signed San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment, which says academics should not be judged on the journals they publish in

Do as we say, not as we do, government tells universities after ministers reject another optional recommendation of French review

Tutors struggle to prepare reporters for public less interested in facts

Wen Hai, head of Peking University HSBC Business School’s Oxford outpost, says venture will help foster collaboration between Britain and China

Academics may be asked not to apply for jobs, give lectures or conduct external examining at Trinity

University cuts courses but will become first foreign institution to offer law degree in country

Liverpool pro vice-chancellor says new positions would be step between PhDs and traditional postdoctoral posts

Berlin-based academic network faces court action in US and Germany, and lost more than €12 million (£10.7 million) in 2017, accounts show

Vast resources channelled into research, analysis of business schools finds

Final budget, pending Senate and White House input, may be slightly less generous

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

US universities are opening outposts in the region to capitalise on untapped market and skirt barriers created by the Trump administration

South Wales lecturer shared incorrect advice on issues such as electrical safety, fire doors, and indoor barbecues

Analysis of more than 120 million academic publications since the beginning of the 19th century shows more is more as academics compete for attention

Tributes paid to psychologist who put counselling on a scientific footing

Government proposals to create large, multidisciplinary universities hailed as ‘important new drive’ but experts say they have ‘seen this play before’

The Wolfson History Prize winner talks about her work on the failure to bring to justice the perpetrators of Nazi atrocities, and the connection between her family history and research

Teesside’s Leading Roles project uses stage techniques to train university staff in handling ‘challenging conversations’ and conflict, write Sharon Paterson, Paul Hessey and Mike Rogers

Chris Skidmore tells peers he hopes for announcement soon but acknowledges that UK is ‘in a very strange place politically’

Large universities drop down list looking at high quality research once overall natural science output is taken into account

Director of Universities UK International says some institutions have modelled falls in EU student enrolment of up to 80 per cent

Similar to broader scandal, case raises question of sports coach allegedly aiding applicants

Staffordshire and University for the Creative Arts secure gold, but Sheffield stays on silver

Donation from philanthropist Stephen Schwarzman is institution’s ‘largest since the Renaissance’

Based on survey of more than 140,000 people, Wellcome Global Monitor finds affluent respondents are more likely to be positive about science

Experts divided over whether centre-left but anti-immigration Social Democratic Party will continue, scrap or enhance current policy restricting foreign student numbers

Preparations for sale by Apollo Education Group are under way, THE understands, two years after owner changed hands

East Asian giant now challenging more established rivals on Western-style benchmarks

Pontifical Catholic University of Chile now tops the region

Despite the turmoil racking Venezuela and Brazil, there are bright spots in Latin America’s higher education landscape. Rachael Pells reports

Rejected student had found fame advocating guns after his own school shooting

UCL vice-provost warns that universities' ability to cross-subsidise grants is declining

Critics warn against equating a course’s value with its graduate earnings, of threats to universities’ autonomy on funding decisions and damage to research

New research calls for greater support for exiled academics with a view to rebuilding the system

Endorsement of new partnership by Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin may be reaction to US cold shoulder

Uncapped funding best way of dealing with demographic ‘kinks’, Australian forum told