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Results from the European Student Survey suggest the UK, Austria and Ireland are also strong on providing students with chances to thrive outside class

Students claim that ‘asking questions is not appreciated by most local teachers’

Moves follow decision by Saudi Arabia to order students back from Canada in diplomatic spat

Tehran president says institution is keen to internationalise despite deteriorating relations with the West

Orderly graduate recruitment under threat as demographic decline triggers ‘free-for-all’

Education secretary says university inaugurations ‘not appropriate’ for sovereignty conversations

Union members’ walkout over budget cuts will coincide with the arrival of new students

Universities will have to develop and comply with free speech policy by January

European funders’ shift away from subscription journals raises questions over the outlook for prestigious periodicals

Office for Students says end of system of annual negotiations will allow universities to be more ‘ambitious’ and ‘flexible’

Institutions say they don’t doctor their admissions, but figures tell a different story

Universities UK responds to growing public concern about number of undergraduates taking their own lives

Dame Jocelyn Bell Burnell’s graduate scholarships will help students from under-represented groups

List of finalists for the ‘Oscars’ of the higher education sector released

MIT and Yale follow close behind in 2019 Wall Street Journal/ÌÇÐÄVlog league table 

New league table will be first to measure global universities’ success in delivering on UN targets

Tributes paid to first female president of US’ oldest historically black college

New book weighs merits of secure reporting software that alerts institutions if an alleged offender crops up more than once

Augar review needs to take account of key ONS debt study but get in ahead of spending review, observers warn

Major study finds that many Muslim students are self-censoring and disengaging from UK campus life

Summit to coincide with ÌÇÐÄVlog Awards

Universities Superannuation Scheme is in ‘rude health’, says Mervyn King

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

The winner of the Royal Society’s Athena Prize talks about tackling sexual harassment and learning that scientific heroes are people, too

Government pledges money after report found problem had been ‘largely ignored’

US lawmakers voting to expand mandatory student loan counselling, despite little expectation of any meaningful dent in ballooning debt levels

University leaders from Russia and India and an executive from Microsoft discuss how to attract and retain top-tier academics

Philip Augar predicts ONS study could increase ‘public scrutiny of taxpayer subsidy for HE’

Minister sees MAC review as chance to change status quo that leaves him ‘concerned’

Union complains that early career academics have been told they must publish at least one 3* paper every 18 months ahead of 2021 assessment

New admissions system, set up to end a lottery for places, has led some applicants to leave decisions to the last minute

Preview data from upcoming Global University Employability Ranking show view is reversed for some European nations

All research funded by participating public bodies across Europe must be made freely and openly available to read and download, agency heads say

Cultural and linguistic cohesion required if region is to fulfil its higher education potential, experts say

Cambridge deputy to succeed Dame Glynis Breakwell in April

Universities would have to share proposed equity grants scheme with colleges and non-profits

Growing influence of Democrat-leaning students attracts attention of Republican lawmakers

Publisher says divestment from Prometheus was taken for commercial reasons

Universities UK calls on government to improve post-study work offer to compete with regimes in US, Canada and Australia

Association of Colleges urges government review to take action on England’s unconditional offers and admissions ‘free-for-all’

Data from 55 institutions suggest efforts to improve retention have had little effect

Office for Students makes nearly two-third of board papers ‘exempt from publication’ at latest board meeting

University of London member is the first significant UK higher education institution to close since medieval times

Canadian study finds that short-term contracts are ‘discouraging and demoralising’

Ennio Vivaldi says he stands with student protesters pushing for equality on campuses

University of Hertfordshire is stepping up efforts to include live-at-home students more fully in extracurricular activities

Government washing its hands over ‘market failure’, finance guru says

University of London institution complained its large international cohort meant it was penalised in assessment

Many universities now looking to China, not to Europe, to form academic partnerships, says Cambridge professor

Ministry will remove at least 1,000 places on English-language courses, claiming two in three are a drain on the state

University chiefs’ remuneration rising at more than double the rate of staff’s

Landmark paper charts rapid increase in use of essay mills

Gavin Buckingham offers new lecturers tips on how to thrive in the pressurised first few months in the job

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

Hepi paper highlights that ‘progressive’ reforms mean poorer students will have larger debts and less cash in hand than before

Ex-Aberystwyth professor John Warren forced to escape in dead of night

The psychologist talks about jumping ship, putting junior researchers first and why online gaming promotes abstemiousness

Pioneering scholar of black feminism remembered

Controversial companies are pouring millions into academic research – including on how the industry should be regulated

National improvement programmes have clear losers as well as winners, THE summit hears