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Office for Students says universities should put more weight on applicants’ backgrounds

Proposals to extend open access requirements to include all long-form works beyond REF 2021 divide opinion

Study casts doubt on efficacy of increasing research productivity in some disciplines

Publisher says it remains ‘committed’ to striking a deal, but question mark hangs over institutions’ continuing access

Government rewards three public and three private institutions but fails to reach target of giving 20 universities elite status

Peter Doherty warns scientists about being ‘used’ by journalists with a predetermined story to tell

Government may harness funding agreements to influence mix of teacher specialties

Researcher also suggests there is ‘a lot of interest’ in further study on mindfulness-NSS scores link

Removal of guidelines on affirmative action and retirement of Supreme Court justice could ‘set the stage for future challenges’ to university admission policies

Scholars at greater risk of stress-related illness than police, medics and local authority staff, research suggests

New funding commitment aims to aid drug discovery ‘in Africa by Africans’

Initiative will allow UKRI to sponsor researchers from outside the EU, but key questions unanswered

China’s internal policies, such as Belt and Road initiative, may hold the key to protecting a critical revenue stream

Undead professor deployed as critique of managerialism and teaching evaluation at a UK conference

Mature students more likely to study vocational courses, are mostly women and more likely to live at home, analysis finds

New government body for research predicts cost of £15 million per year if tax problem not resolved

Visa data, contradicted by ����Vlog Affairs figures, raise questions over treatment of Chinese doctoral applicants

Basic research bears the brunt of a general decline in spending

Robert MacIntosh explains what to expect when staff enter the little-known world of the university exam board

Champion of the University of Notre Dame’s Catholic identity remembered

The specialist in ancient DNA talks about caving, elephant birds and how tracking prehistoric genetic changes could help fix our dodgy hearts

THE analysis provides food for thought on the best research strategy for institutions with ‘core strengths’

����Vlog Office says records on international academics are ‘not collated in a manner which can be reported on’

Overseas students seen as key buffer against rankings drop and demographic decline

‘Verbose’ language, bad English and unexplained abbreviations all figure highly in reasons for rejection

Hungarian Academy of Sciences will ‘continue negotiations’ after government bid to take charge of research financing

Many students are struggling with stress-related health problems after switch to postgraduate programmes, research suggests

Shift in focus at transcontinental African Leadership University prompts some staff to quit

European Union students enrolling in 2019-20 will pay the same fees as UK students

Ahead of the release of our inaugural Europe Teaching Rankings, we discuss what metrics the ����Vlog data team have used to make like-for-like comparisons of educational excellence across Europe

Increasing research investment could see country lead the region in higher education, but experts say it needs to balance capacity with culture

Last week’s legislative delay has not stopped the government tightening the screws on student debt

Major study may reflect how the most stressful part of higher education in China is actually the entrance exam

Cambridge researcher dreams of returning home to war-stricken country

Institutions accused of only ‘wanting to be about Shakespeare’ in wake of proposal to merge US Education and Labor departments

Ballot follows walkouts over pensions earlier this year

Relying on an inspirational leader is a bad tactic for universities, conference hears

Nobel laureates call for early career researchers to be freed from ‘publish or perish’ mentality

University of Roehampton provost Lynn Dobbs will take the reins at London Metropolitan University in October

University alliances warn pilot could be restricted to Erasmus+ programme countries only

A committee investigating sexual harassment at Makerere University has called for the end of ‘rampant’ abuse of students by lecturers

Submissions will be published alongside reviewers’ comments and author responses

Gillian Martin described transgender students as ‘hairy-knuckled laydees’

Glasgow School of Art’s historic home at risk of ‘sudden collapse’

Chemistry laureate Michael Levitt also warns younger scientists are now far less likely to be awarded grants

Controversial legislation will not be considered before August

Post-18 review likely to be pressed by government to lower fees without extra spending

Tributes paid to “inspirational” scientist who transformed understanding of a rare disease

Scholars say European Union may be reluctant to allocate research funds to Hungarian universities after government takes control over financing of research institutions

Student Minds to lead in developing charter, but student mental health ‘isn’t just about universities’

The Hungarian medievalist discusses being in Paris in 1968, learning from Jacques Le Goff, and the Orbán regime

Thirty providers already signed up to initiative, with another 30 interested in following suit

Biggest campus protests since 1989 have disrupted legislation that many fear will lead to more state control of universities

Analysis reveals Antipodean universities are falling behind East Asian rivals

Jean-Lou Chameau pushes for formal merger of five grandes écoles

‘Essentially no difference’ for most part between views of students and general public, says YouGov

Fee-free policy cheaper than expected, as enrolments remain subdued

President of Canada’s York University warns against binary divide between regional and global universities

Leaving state regulatory system might free institutions from ministers’ ‘deeply flawed’ fixation with value for money, says Frans Berkhout

Analysis of latest data could spark similar debate to that seen in relation to the REF, about whether a complex assessment process is needed