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Sharing every stage of scholarship on Octopus platform will allow funders to offer smaller, more regular grants, according to founder

Joan Wallach Scott warns of a ‘vision of the world in which men are superior to women’ in final protest against CEU expulsion from Hungary

Budapest-based institution confirms all new students will be enrolled in Vienna from next year

Societies must ‘regain control’ over gene editing technology, says expert

ProfHub plans to let applicants rate universities – and allow anonymous leaks – about the academic selection process

Sector leaders fear consultation could be cover for cutbacks

Investment, not divestment, as university bets the farm on renewables

Independent HE report suggests it is time for ‘radical new SME approach’ to sector

Remain supporter says failed talks with EU on Galileo satellite programme expose Theresa May's proposed deal as “naive”

Union members urged to regain influence by focusing on big-picture problems, but time constraints emerge as major challenge

Strathclyde pollster says taking a side during the run-up to the referendum made institutions seem out of touch with the general population

Anthony Forster says sector organisation should represent higher education institutions, not just their leaders

Former Johannesburg vice-chancellor Ihron Rensburg says academics must critically engage with their own assumptions

Awards presented in 18 categories to recognise outstanding contributions to UK higher education

As reviews pile on reviews, academics urged to get on board

Hyped technology has delivered mixed access benefits, minor cost reduction and poor quality, conference hears

UUK debated whether to back second referendum, but that is ‘very difficult to do’, says Cardiff v-c

Annual NSSE survey of 400,000 US students finds gap between high confidence in job preparation and weaker assessment of skills

Senior civil servant said Migration Advisory Committee report ‘looks good’ weeks prior to publication of document that backed Theresa May’s stance

Tributes paid to pastor, foreign policy expert and college president

Ucas analysis also reveals that such offer-making is even more widespread when ‘conditional unconditional’ offers are included 

Chinese learners think fees of a couple of hundred euros are ‘too good to be true’ and a sign of poor quality, experts say

Key committee agrees that associate members of Horizon Europe ‘may be excluded’ from prestigious funding scheme

The Warwick Arts Centre director talks about how a school led by Britain’s first black headteacher and her new home in a diverse Coventry suburb have both inspired her

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

Whether you approach an editor in person, over email or on the phone, make sure to tap into their passion for the subject, writes Nature’s Magdalena Skipper

Analysis of rankings data suggests Australia has made ground and without an apparent cost to research quality

Ex-submariner ‘wishes to pursue further academic opportunities and will remain active in the sector’

Roadblock could stall progress in appointment of more female vice-chancellors, report warns

Fewer than one in three nations set specific participation targets for disadvantaged groups, study finds

More than 40 per cent of firsts last year were ‘unexplained’, finds UUK-commissioned report

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says policy will provide protection if potential visa restriction, pandemic or trade war curbs enrolment

Adam Habib fears ‘race to the middle’ if national fee-setting regime introduced

Scholar loses confidence in application process after her previously approved project fails research council review

Latest edition of Clarivate analysis suggests nation is on upward trajectory

Reduce applicants’ workload and review funding for indirect research costs, Australian MPs tell government

Task force affirms support for green open access and says that poorer researchers should not miss out

UK Engagement Survey indicates less affluent students do more independent study despite greater demands on their time

Universities’ moves follow ministers’ demand for reduction in international student numbers

But Sam Gyimah bases comments on data he accepts are only a ‘snapshot’ of what graduates go on to earn

Richard Davies and three others on leave while institution carries out an internal investigation

Doctoral student at was sentenced to life in prison on spying charges

Government poll condemned as insensitive

Analysis of impact of doctoral training centres funded by Economic and Social Research Council prompts further questions over approach to postgraduate learning

Research the goal but not the currency, as Australian universities chase Chinese dollars

University of British Columbia professor quits leadership of Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in protest at funding reforms

Casual academics stuck in second class, as gold-plated conditions make tenure a distant dream

Colleges confront challenges around hostility on campus and concerns over plagiarism

John Morgan honoured at Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ annual Education Journalism Awards

Ronald Daniels promises to take more students from poor backgrounds as observers say $1.8 billion donation would be better spent elsewhere

Legislation leaves government free to ‘ratchet up’ levy, say critics

Oxford’s Dorothy Bishop says spread of funding would be largely unchanged

Conference hears how the biases of historic collections need to be addressed

Universities minister Sam Gyimah says student exchanges should continue, despite UAE’s jailing of Matthew Hedges

Pension scheme will re-run its valuation and consult universities on proposals to save defined benefits, although April’s cost increases will go ahead

Although less than half of fee income typically goes directly to teaching, English universities should not fear more openness, says Hepi study

Officials give GSM green light for public funding despite knowing of its financial worries, while ministers ‘refuse to back public universities’

MPs criticises government, which would have recouped £1.7 billion sale price in just eight years’ repayments

After spending a century in and around academia, Ukraine’s chief scientist reflects on his father’s ‘genius’, Chernobyl and how scientists helped to win the Second World War

Frustration with ‘snail’s pace’ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss targets