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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

Vast resources channelled into research, analysis of business schools finds

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

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

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 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

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

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

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

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

Oberlin ordered to pay $44 million (£35 million) after leading discredited boycott

Arden v-c Carl Lygo says panel judged universities against Oxbridge model and ignored value of widening participation institutions

Lifting cap increased participation but was not accompanied by more support for non-traditional students, says Productivity Commission

Experts propose ‘national widening access cohort’ as alternative to widely criticised POLAR measure

Hundreds of staff set to walk out on 28 June

Misconduct at root of only a fraction of complaints in Australia, study finds

Embedded integrity practices sustained knowledge systems that have evolved for millennia, says RMIT leader

US campuses expand courses to tap into passion for organic, small-scale agriculture

Running a university and composing music both involve ‘strategic planning’, says Roderick Watkins, composer of the ‘very dark, very violent’ Juniper Tree

Preliminary data show 99 out of 100 patents citing hypothetical examples did not make their prophetic nature clear

Government reportedly suspects campuses are not fully transparent about global ties

Former X Factor judge becomes co-owner of Liverpool Media Academy

University launches ‘urgent investigation’ into why it was not represented at tribunal

Liberal arts chief warns academics of cost of failing to serve local communities

Campus win wrongly equated media democratisation with real democracy

Latest hearing due next month in case of Tony Brown, who refused to shut down unmoderated staff email list

University of Derby project will produce guidance on improving curricula, pedagogy and assessments