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Robots and drones should be part of teaching and learning, says report looking into teaching trends in 2019

Tributes paid to leading haematologist who transformed our understanding of blood clotting

Dollars, not diktats, now seen as biggest risk to institutional autonomy in special administrative region

University leaders are increasingly expected to communicate directly with staff and students, often on controversial topics – how should they handle this tricky task?

Outpost’s £27 million loss in 2017-18 a ‘salutary lesson’ on the challenges associated with international ventures

BMC Biology’s ‘portable peer review’ policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections

London university will shut down site as part of new institutional strategy 

Despite widespread recognition of prevalence of errors in psychological research, academics remain reluctant to own up to their errors

Separate classes, often in English, mean European students are failing to learn their host country’s tongue, new book finds

Office for Students pursues collation of data on contact hours and class sizes outside teaching excellence framework

Australian government is underestimating the challenge, analysts say

UMBC’s success in producing black graduates who later earn science doctorates may prove tough to replicate

Foreign-born academics outperform US counterparts on numerous productivity measures, analysis shows

Wellcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar also knighted

One of two men accused of killing Gregory Kamwendo is a former colleague at the University of Zululand

Cash flows increasingly from south and east Asia to south-eastern cities

Despite scandal and top-level resignations, University of Maryland system head sees football as being well worth the trouble

However, latest data from EU suggests eastern European nations having more success in keeping gap narrow

Toronto scholars say Ethiopia collaboration has helped reverse brain drain and led to important milestones for country

Higher education leaders fear shortage of skilled workers if limit is not lowered from £30,000

Patent citation data suggest that economies such as South Korea, where firms have capacity to drive research, are making most progress 

Turing Institute and British Library collaborate on project to use artificial intelligence techniques to analyse texts

Government increases funding for project grants but cuts cash for associated costs

Linguists also concerned about the creation of modern-language ‘deserts’

Organisation follows nearly 200 German research organisations in cutting ties with publishing giant

Even if tuition-free or ‘debt-free’ higher education cannot be achieved at national level, local reforms are having a big impact

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

With one more year to go until the end of a decade that is transforming universities worldwide, ÌÇÐÄVlog looks at the trends that have shaped the past 12 months

Several institutions refusing to pay settlement fees for employees or their families

The remote campus director talks about her traveller roots, winning and losing at business and the limits of the curriculum

Spike in severance payments in Russell Group may be sign of attempt to shed ‘underperforming’ academics

With many staff required to record their lectures and put them online, how can they ensure students are still learning effectively?

Tributes paid to nun who was a pioneer of women’s education

Welcome for abolition of cap on visas for skilled workers, but continuing concern over impact of £30,000 salary threshold

Essay mills ‘possibly our biggest reputational risk’, advisory panel says

University of Helsinki pilots aimed at eradicating unconscious bias in hiring decisions

Latest Indigenous scholar to leave post urges universities to focus on student support, not ‘tokenistic’ senior positions

Academics claim that loopholes in government index of top scholars raise questions over allocation of public money

Office for Students head says ‘spiralling grade inflation’ must be tackled after latest figures show universities with most explaining to do on issue

Inaugural ceremony to build on success of long-running UK-focused awards

Expert panel given six months to design new system

New Zealand university ‘did not consult enough’ on new identity

IFS researcher says ONS decision will make Labour fees pledge ‘a lot less expensive’ and bring more ‘Treasury scrutiny’ of sector

Modest remuneration rises and inclusion of housing costs push average pay packets past £350,000 mark

Invitation of two far-right speakers to the University of Siegen has prompted protests and counter-claims of censorship

Immigrants whose qualifications are formally recognised are more likely to have a job which matches their level of education, says report

The University of Buckingham will open a new health science campus on Cheshire site

Estimated portion of loans that will never be repaid to be classed as government spending, rather than lending

Options said to have been modelled by Augar review could mean students with Ds or Es at A level are in effect blocked from entering university

Staff, council and senate at Wollongong ‘did not know talks were under way’

PhD scholarships in the sights as cutbacks more than double analysts’ expectations

Critics of open-access initiative had warned of limits on collaborations and publishing choice if major regions stayed out

Unfamiliarity with opposite sex may harm academic results when mixed-gender cooperation required, says study

Why other academic disciplines have not also introduced such markets is a ‘very good question’, organisers say

Graduate programmes tipped to lure disillusioned millennials

Capes-PrInt programme could help Brazil become more active in internationalisation, but worries emerge about scheme’s concentration and its future under new right-wing president

Work published by women is more widely read by undergraduate and master’s students and by junior researchers than articles written by men

New European rule on protecting data from human research subjects being found so complicated as to slow medical science

Study raises doubts over value of ‘character education’ in universities

Staffing reductions could leave institution unable to meet needs of international researchers, academics warn