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Academics highlight brain drain of researchers and loss of international research partners as concerns in wake of latest government ‘attack on autonomy’

Publishers accuse institutions of piracy as revenues slump

University presses need to collaborate and think big in an uncertain marketplace, says UNSW executive

Television historian on his failed attempt to ‘escape’ being a historian, Churchill’s ‘mixed’ legacy and why we need more black professors

New president pursues pet project while existing institutions struggle to make ends meet

Race-based student performance gap doubles when professors admit doubts about innate abilities

Angela Rayner pledges to order regulator to ‘avoid university bankruptcies’ in bid to end Tories’ ‘failed free market experiment’

Event at Nankai University will discuss rapid rise of Chinese research institutions, and upcoming threats and opportunities

UCU branch rejects redundancies plan and blames ‘poor investment and spending decisions’ for financial woes

Large research groups may be less flexible and more risk-averse, study suggests

Regina Rini discusses how academics and students can avoid online aggression

Cardiff’s Colin Riordan says research-intensive universities will have to ‘adjust’ to straitened times

Evidence suggests citations boost from working with industry

Doubts over impact of Australian scheme after previous fee discount programme was scrapped

Universities ‘relieved’ at rejection of defence department demands for more control over technology they create

Tributes paid to ‘greater scholar of the old school’ who was a renowned expert on Antonio Gramsci

White students from lower participation neighbourhoods account for fewer than one in 10 students at more than 70 per cent of English universities, report says

Rebekah Tromble and Patricia Rossini feared for their safety when the conservative online world turned against them last summer

Glasgow’s new vice-principal for external relations discusses what administrators can offer senior teams in higher education, overcoming impostor syndrome, and why you should never perm your hair

German-Russian conference cancelled over inclusion of acting rector of V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University

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

Only one in 10 respondents to UCU survey welcomes introduction of UK’s teaching assessment

Continental version of UK’s former ÌÇÐÄVlog Academy among suggestions on how to boost educational standards

Robert MacIntosh offers managers some hints on how to succeed at their university strategy day

Gradings influenced more by sex and ethnicity than teachers’ experience

Data from the UK, US and Australia suggest science doctorates continue to dominate expansion, but why?

Treasury wants longer delay to England’s post-18 review so it is ‘part of’ spending review, but earlier publication could give sector more say

Liberal arts professor Dan Mathewson uses his wrestling alter ego to explore the politics of the working-class American South

Springer Nature says highly selective titles need special treatment under European-led open access initiative

Institutions struggle to cope with changing student tastes, demographic shifts and the difficulty of scaling up their model

University began investigation after concerns about £200 million development project led to suspension of v-c and dean

Average salary rise of £8,000 awarded to English university leaders highlights ‘lightweight’ nature of new regulator, says University and College Union

Australian university releases details of curriculum for philanthropically funded degree

Dozens of universities are already interested in striking ‘civic university agreements’ proposed by commission

Pupils in rural and coastal areas are losing out in the drive to widen participation, says charity

Academics have been urged to mention China’s persecution of Muslim minorities at every public event in which they participate

Switching to a six-point scale in surveys eliminates perceived gap in teaching performance, study finds

House of Lords committee also calls for UK to fully associate to EU’s Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ programmes after Brexit

Welsh university says it is not currently planning compulsory redundancies but cannot rule them out in future

Sir Chris Husbands visits Australia as it considers introducing performance-related funding system similar to UK’s teaching excellence framework

Senate education committee chair pushes to apply federal aid eligibility test for private colleges across whole sector

Announcement follows days of speculation over senior leadership at Leicester institution

University presses should not produce popular books at the expense of academic ones, say scholars

Royal Holloway professor Jeff Frank back at work after lengthy suspension over ‘farcical’ and ‘non-specific’ charges relating to union activity

Australian researchers say a lack of guidance material forces researchers to second-guess ethics committees

Officers draw on expertise from around the world as they deal with protests, extremist speakers and hate crimes

Counting China’s first green billionaire among your mentees doesn’t hurt in funding applications, says UNSW professor

Rebalancing of global higher education promises end of era in which institutions all ‘strive to be the same as Harvard’, says professor

Creation of fake university seen as worrying but ultimately justified by sector leaders

Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex

Larry Bacow calls campuses ‘far more adaptable and durable’ than sceptics claim

Chair of Migration Advisory Committee says target no longer influences policy on student migration

Durham, Imperial College and St Andrews all had a smaller share of first years from state schools in 2017-18 than Cambridge

Vice-chancellor predicts ‘very significant’ demand at Leipzig branch campus

US government funding $7.6 million (£5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility

Bergen rector says UK's failure to commit to European student mobility overlooks importance of ties between Britain's north and Norway

Ramsay Centre proposal ‘crosses red lines’, says union

Foreign applications down 4 per cent, enrolments drop 1 per cent in ‘troubling’ sign for graduate schools

New £5.7 million institute at the Technical University of Munich triggers ‘ethics washing’ debate

Researchers who trace links between academic supervisors and students claim that it can help to shed light on the nature of mentoring