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One institution has 26 vice-presidents, research finds, following calls for the number of senior managers to be radically cut

Jo Grady says ‘a lot of’ university leaders want to strike a deal over contributions to Universities Superannuation Scheme

Academics to try aiding US president with record of cutting expert advisers

Strong demand and careful due diligence to ensure that new offshore presence won’t be one of the ‘train wrecks’

University stands by royal in fallout from Newsnight interview about ties with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

Multibillionaire announces investment at the launch of beleaguered university’s new campus

Hundreds remain cornered by police inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Anthony Forster criticises failure of negotiators to ‘embrace principled compromise’

Caught up in a national anxiety about falling behind technologically, universities have recruited hundreds of new professors including data experts and digital humanities professors

Carey gift puts price on value of a name and asks who ultimately should control it

New study of US-China co-authored papers suggests US output would have declined if collaborations were discounted

Queensland institution plots ‘visible and confident presence’ in business district as it flags ‘alternative use’ for campus in the suburbs

Exchange students from around the world advised to leave as violence intensifies

New chair of main higher education grouping promises to resist complacency

Research must be at the core of deepened ties with the subcontinent, India expert says

Six leading universities cancel last two weeks of semester after campuses left looking like war zones

Raj Kumar wants greater focus on liberal arts studies, against existing preoccupation with science

Lord Kerslake, chair of UK2070 Commission, calls for ‘MIT of the North’ and ‘HE-FE systems’ in deprived towns

Findings highlight need for ‘carefully considered’ use of platform as an educational tool

Figures show that even disciplines with a high share of female technical staff have few women at the top

Boris Johnson pledges to double public spending on research and development to £18 billion over course of next parliament

‘Non-prescriptive’ guidance highlights due diligence, cyber security and staff perks

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

Hepi study calls for debate on the purpose and value of the UK’s costly system of residential universities

Flimsy evidence provided for China’s political interference in UK academia has raised questions over the motivation for calls for tougher regulation

The two-time Ig Nobel Prize winner explains the potential applications of her research on wombats’ cubed poo and why animal waste is the ‘best study topic’

Tributes paid to ‘a brilliant, warmly sympathetic scholar-critic’ whose experience of war informed his work

Lifelong learning is not getting buy-in because workers at risk cannot see the need, study warns

Jon Tennant barred from OpenCon community after breaching code of conduct

Survey of more than 6,000 students worldwide also highlights bullying and harassment faced by doctoral students

New study shows reading lists are still overwhelmingly ‘male and pale’

Unesco is backing plan to improve recognition of refugee qualifications, but some are sceptical about the scheme’s value

Bureau admits using paperwork flaws to drive evictions, without clear line on open science

Emma Watton and Sarah Stables share insights from their research on, and personal experience of, how job shares can help women secure senior roles and also benefit universities

Respected policy analyst nominates funding and student loans as key areas of research

Party’s lifelong learning report features call for new organisation to coordinate across National Education Service

Police use tear gas on campus for first time since protests began

US’ biggest four-year university system reduces barriers for struggling entrants

Announcement by new government given cautious welcome by academics – although questions remain over funding and political independence

Conferences should be part of the open access debate, Tokyo researcher says

Leading sociologist of inequality fears boosting the status of a select few universities could mean a closed educational elite, as in the US or France 

UK research culture likened to 1970s car industry, with individuals ignoring quality concerns

Delays in the name of political PR ‘forcing academics overseas’

Academic experts amazed at the speed of development in AI that enables new technology delivering financial services

‘Geo-specific access models’ will help overcome problem of different nations having different policies towards open access, European Commission expert argues

Esther Duflo aims to secure hearing for ‘ideologically diverse’ discipline in era of Brexit and Trump, hoping it becomes less ‘macho’

Greater Bay Area collaborations seen as offering potential for Hong Kong universities to further commercialisation of research and innovation

Setting the tone is the main contribution of multinational RCEP agreement, analysts say

Outrage over move to replace in-house publishing with ‘open and digitised access to information’

HKUST is in mourning after the death was announced at a graduation ceremony  

Restrictions on loan access for university courses with low graduate earnings under consideration for Tory manifesto, though Augar-inspired cuts not ruled out

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

A quarter of universities doing only bare minimum to help registration as general election looms, survey suggests

Project hopes to better value research by allowing outside world to see how surprising research findings are to experts in field

Report also suggests that spin-outs founded and run by women receive less investment

Tributes paid to an expert on the theory and practice of democratic politics whose ‘intellectual brilliance’ was matched by a strong ‘sense of scholarly camaraderie’

University and further education organisations band together

Anti-corruption economist discusses his humble upbringing in Burundi, his five months in solitary confinement, and how his work is shaping global policy

Study says that universities need to ‘step up’ to continue progress made by funding agencies and journals

Rise in interactions means three times more disciplines represented in references and citations per paper than 50 years ago