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Acting vice-chancellor promises to ‘listen’ to staff concerns after academic body agrees to shelve no-confidence vote until June

Katie Perrior says tuition fees are a ‘crazy subject’ for Conservatives to tackle Labour over in England

Female researchers remain comparatively scarce in publishing, with some fields to remain male-dominated for centuries

Despite errors exaggerating results by factor of 10, Adam Perkins says findings remain ‘statistically significant’

Labour attacks department’s green light for ‘University Campus of Football Business’ name

Branches call for return to collegiality from senior management to avoid repeat of industrial action

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

The inaugural provost of Hereford’s new engineering university on moving from Mexico’s industrial heartland to the UK’s Steel City and life as a gay woman in a male-dominated profession

Antarctic scientist who studied survival in cold environments remembered

Foreign enrolments have surged to record numbers, possible hiccups lie ahead

French president claims that ‘professional agitators’ are behind campus occupations

Students and high-earning graduates set to face 6.3 per cent interest following March’s retail price index figures

Legislation making its way through Parliament could help address ‘brand confusion’ overseas

Public health academic says studies must speak the same language as their subjects

Analysis from THE’s data team suggests big differences among disciplines in the amount of scholarship that fails to garner a citation 

Russell Group university hopes to poach researchers from competitors with generous scheme

‘No more direct access to Springer’s latest papers? No problem,’ says petition, signed by nearly 4,000

Study reveals success of historically black universities when students’ backgrounds are taken into account

Reporting regulations too ‘ambiguous’, allowing institutions to interpret them to their advantage, experts argue

Figures on student numbers suggest that 2012 funding reforms in England have already fundamentally changed the OU 

Concerns over cost and impact of proposals can be overcome, say scholars

Reed College responds to student complaints that its flagship module was too white, too male and too Eurocentric

Trade unions asking for a 7.5 per cent uplift or an extra £1,500, whichever is greater

Study calls for more focus on providing citizenship education to those on vocational track

Concerns that France’s flagship research body is too large and unwieldy to move with the modern times are unfounded, says former president Alain Fuchs

Centre will combine basic research with practical solutions to grand challenges

As Beijing and Canberra trade blows over foreign interference and academic freedom, leading analyst predicts things will get worse before they get better

Researchers who actively push their papers on social media gain more citations, study finds

UCU members accept deal with vice-chancellors by two-to-one margin

Vice-chancellor stands down after union members passed no confidence vote

Members of the THE editorial team discuss the influence of China on global higher education 

Female chemists are more productive and successful in the job market if they have a female supervisor, analysis shows

Review highlights income support and housing as key issues for university students from regional backgrounds

Students will spend 18 months at each institution and graduate with degrees from both

Cost pressures rule out a resumption of uncapped system as we know it, former top bureaucrat says

Study explores how we should conceptualise the role of animal participants in pre-exam petting sessions

Suicide rate among UK students exceeds that among young people in general population for first time, finds analysis

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

Universities may close centres or be forced to register employees as foreign agents as a result of investigations, say experts

The dawn of the digital age means universities must rethink how they respond to negative headlines, according to a new book

The women’s rights lawyer on growing up in Bangladesh, meeting Mother Teresa and uniting against patriarchy 

Leading pianist who spent more than four decades at the University of Miami remembered

Hefce's Madeleine Atkins received payment in lieu of salary for remainder of contract, but declined 'redundancy payment'

Do you appear on this year’s shortlist?

Leaders from Anglo-Celtic and European backgrounds fail to reflect diversity of campuses, says report

Michael Ignatieff says higher education will lose battle against authoritarianism if scholars’ rights are seen only as ‘a corporate privilege’

Domestic funding for business and management research down a quarter in real terms in six years

A switch to open access could save hundreds of millions of euros, says analysis from the European University Association

Funding administrating body aims to survey 600 researchers across four universities to examine effects felt by reforms made to the assessment

Battle between publishers and academic social network deadlocked

Head of Spanish capital's local government investigated over accusations related to her master’s degree

Universities forced to act after case of Gao Yan, who killed herself after alleged rape in 1998, leads to national outcry

Private college enrolments add to worrying signs for Australian international education

Students will spend two years at Trinity College Dublin and two at Columbia University

Westlake University may be government’s pilot of more autonomous institutions, expert suggests

Clarivate promises to ‘scale up’ Kopernio, which automatically detects researchers’ subscriptions and directs them to open access alternatives if necessary

Peter Williams concerned by requirement for English universities to deliver ‘successful outcomes’ for ‘all’ students

Robotics experts cancel boycott after KAIST denies developing autonomous weapons