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The University of Arizona ecologist on Colombia’s natural diversity, her lucky break, and the challenges facing other aspiring scientists

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Tributes paid to internationally renowned figure in technology education

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

Facilitating flexible working hours and showing gratitude towards team members are among the musts for all labs, according to Fernando Maestre

Former OU pro vice-chancellor returns to take top job at troubled institution

Software could be adopted across the sector as early warning system for standards issues

Academics are watching to see how the University of Hong Kong will respond after one of its scholars was jailed for his role in 2014 protests

Harvard experiment finds nearly half of academics amended their assessment of a research application after seeing randomly generated ‘expert scores’

Monash wish list includes new agency, universal learning entitlement and ‘coherent’ funding model

Coalition, Labour and Greens respond to sector survey

Improving the culture surrounding mental health for postgraduates and PhD students also crucial to maintaining a healthy research system, Chris Skidmore tells leaders

Doane University librarian suspended in row over display

Negotiator says universities ‘no longer willing to pay’ big publishers without significant step towards open access

New law merges technical institutions into universities, but critics suspect political motives in run-up to general election

Retirees are being invited to live and take classes alongside younger students. Jon Marcus reports

Experts debate merits of approaches including across-the-board rises for women and the longer, harder challenge of changing cultures

Trump policy expanding long-term bans is set aside and is likely to be ended

Wollongong’s Paul Wellings rejects claims he contravened rules in approving Ramsay Centre course, as decision faces legal challenge

Fresh worries over poor English-language ability of some international students

Academics say evaluation conducted to decide distribution of Performance-Based Research Fund is no longer helpful

The Burgundy School of Business is building its reputation on the region’s winemaking history, but applicants must be able to show their passion to get in

Chris Skidmore attacks widespread use of non-disclosure agreements after THE reveals extent of issue

Elite institutions making last-ditch bid to block multimillion-dollar levy

Vice-provost for academic affairs at Nazarbayev University says the post-Soviet country is supporting higher education to break new ground in international research  

Kelvin Droegemeier tells researchers that openness is ‘part of our value system’

Open letter signed by more than 1,500 academics worldwide urges Brazilian government to shelve proposals to withdraw philosophy and sociology in public universities

Hundreds sign petition calling for teaching post to receive salary in July and August

Aftershocks continue amid new revelations of fabrication

Asia Universities Summit 2020 will take place in partnership with Fujita Health University in Nagoya

University’s emphasis on creativity, not exam scores, aims to help shift China away from ‘degree factory’ model, THE summit hears

Biggest payment in admission fraud linked to Yusi Zhao, also known as Molly

Shrinking enrolments at Southampton, Manchester and Sheffield suggest English elite are not immune to pressures of marketisation

David Peña-Guzmán says philosophy undergraduates have enthusiastically embraced experiment designed to ‘reignite their love of attentive reading’

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

The Sheffield Hallam professor and human rights barrister talks about growing up in an immigrant family, his work for Nelson Mandela and helping to thwart the impact of a terror attack

Tributes paid to leading scholar of French colonial history

Report highlights ‘fear and unease’ among some staff and students who were asked to talk openly about race

Peter Gluckman, president-elect of the International Science Council, says ‘Dr Google’ poses a bigger threat to evidence-based policymaking than populist politicians

Pressures on sector call for ‘brave leadership’ – which includes showing ‘vulnerability’ and transparency – some experts believe

National University of Singapore takes top accolade at inaugural ceremony

Tsinghua University overtakes National University of Singapore in regional table

Hundreds of professors had signed petition opposing scrapping of annual subsidy from parent institution

New policy would allow for removal of members following two-thirds vote of governing council

Employers remain at loggerheads with unions over proposed increases ranging from 1.8 per cent to 3.65 per cent

Minister tells THE summit that space project on which she works typifies national priority to diversify economy

Regulator suggests that most selective universities could admit students with grades BCC at A level without a marked fall in academic standards

At the University of Iceland, female students outnumber men by two to one. But among professors, the ratio is the reverse

Struggles of Hampshire College suggest to some that students may be reluctant to shape their own degrees in a debt-heavy, career-focused higher education sector

Robert-Jan Smits looks back on open access initiative ‘roller coaster’ after swapping European Commission for Eindhoven’s ‘booming’ innovation ‘ecosystem’

Trend reflects growing gap between PhD completions and academic job availability

Research agency stresses workforce risk in low number of emerging researchers

Architects of amendment to immigration bill urge Prime Minister Theresa May to ‘embrace’ liberalisation of student immigration regime

Two-year study will help university assess how it may have benefited financially as well as how its scholars contributed to race-based thinking

Institutions in the UK and Ireland raised £1.08 billion in 2017-18, up from £979 million the previous year

Report warns that racism persists in South Africa’s leading university, but it has attracted criticism

Data on almost 2,500 computer scientists in US and Canada suggest ‘prestige’ of PhD institution does not influence number of papers they later produce

University threat to cut $1.7 million annual subsidy generates widespread protest

Proposal would also withdraw financial support for students from the European Union

Spike may be a sign of a more consumerist attitude among students