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Switzerland’s Kurt Wüthrich clashes with female researcher after he claimed he was discriminated against at major conference

Staff ‘shell-shocked’ as declining enrolments, mounting costs and investment reversal trigger call for voluntary redundancies

Germany’s only female Nobel scientist questions notion that diversity is key component of research success in modern science

While college press has a special place in the nation’s psyche, a legal ‘loophole’ leaves it exposed

Critics say a temporary boost, in the form of money that had been earmarked for universities anyway, will not compensate for starvation rations

Tory former universities minister urges shift of responsibility to DSIT and binning of ‘Thatcherite rhetoric’ against industrial strategy

London-based provider told to remove text from website that implied it could award postgraduate degrees

Chemistry laureate Avram Hershko says ChatGPT should be forced to cite its sources and state uncertainty levels

While admitting the much-protested model is dead in the US, Dartmouth’s Hanlon leads expert panel in setting out ways that similar language-culture teaching programmes could grow

Charity’s opposition to genetically engineered ‘golden rice’ is immoral given crop’s potential to end hunger, says Sir Richard Roberts

Distance-learning provider seeks to fill university ‘cold spot’ in Milton Keynes

Observers welcome ‘funding correction’, bankrolled from ‘transfer of underspends’ amid flagging enrolments, but say permanent solutions are needed

Redevelopment of hospital abandoned since Hurricane Katrina seeks to spin innovation from medical and public health strength

New guidelines for government-funded universities in India lack critical engagement and follow a political agenda, scholars say 

On a bipartisan basis, members of Congress see value in federal government tweaking rules to allow and encourage quicker pathways

Loss of organisation, blamed on funding ‘uncertainty’, described as ‘shocking news’

Laureate says research laboratories ‘are not kindergartens’, but other prizewinners urge a more supportive approach

The prospect of a Donald Trump or Ron DeSantis run for the White House has enraged many across the sector but others have decided to remain conspicuously silent

Aaron Ciechanover criticises profits of Nature publisher and backs mega-journal model

The University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa leads first ever THE ranking for the region

Regional Australian university to resurrect city campus, as graduate work rights and online study limits douse interest from international learners

Student growth is a key reason why Lucy Cavendish is admitting more state school pupils than any Oxbridge college, says president Madeleine Atkins

UCL and King’s researchers clash over ‘sarky’ critique of paper that questioned root causes of depression

Three-year time limit to gain competence branded ‘unrealistic’ given high workloads

Surge in downloads ‘reflects industry failure’ to meet sector’s needs amid rising demand for papers, researchers say

Part-time entrants at levels 4 and 5 saw the largest proportional fall of all qualification levels

Stanford team tallies productivity decline after top global prize – though without assessing benefits of career transition

Union says at least 5,000 students will not graduate this summer, but employers’ poll suggests disruption is ‘isolated’ and ‘limited’

Chinese firms’ confidence in student flows is being expressed in business licence applications, analysis finds

Designers say pre-application lottery is the best way to reduce costs without compromising on the quality of projects or the diversity of grantees

English regulator ‘making it up as it goes along’, critics say

Overhaul of rule that removes student access to government subsidies if they do not complete at least half of their subjects under ‘active consideration’

Chief executive Susan Lapworth defends English regulator against sector criticism

An ‘uncomfortable truth’ underlies the approach taken by too many Western universities on collaboration with Asia, conference hears

With OfS under fire, shadow minister praises ‘innovative’ new Welsh post-16 education and research regulator

Major annual survey finds marked increase in timetabled classes post-pandemic, with most being held in-person again

Overall US recruitment from overseas up 8 per cent at postgraduate level, according to annual survey

Admissions service warns that disadvantaged learners could be squeezed out as UK university application numbers hit 1 million by end of decade

University says data gathered by new technology will only help to assess how buildings are used, but staff fear repercussions of increased surveillance

The Mongolian researcher on her journey from growing up in a yurt and herding sheep to identifying livestock diseases in the lab

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

Restrictive US visa policy has caused a steep drop in Chinese students headed to US on exchange, scholar says

Vishwakarma gets leadership prize for â€˜deep commitment’ to surrounding community 

Periodicals ejected from scheme after failing to meet open access publishing targets

Ivy League campus says long-time president deserved record compensation, despite outside questions over equity and transparency

Flat or declining enrolments across Australia spell trouble for university finances and the broader economy, observers warn

Elite universities harbour doubts about shift away from rewarding proven research excellence, says Manchester vice-president, though sector broadly welcomes changes for next assessment exercise

The ‘Presidential Platitude’ and the ‘Forty-Minute Conference Paper’ are among German historian Philipp Stelzel’s concoctions

Journals’ predilection for data availability statements makes little difference to readers’ chances of getting their hands on the data

About two-thirds of providers decreased their carbon emissions over the past year, Hesa data shows

Eliminating fees would pay for itself through tax while boosting equity of access, Duncan Maskell insists

New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission head stresses need to regulate higher and vocational education together during UK visit

Doctoral students at home petition New Delhi for a 60 per cent rise in stipends, amid rising living costs and appeal of overseas job market

In campaigns to isolate China and deny disinformation, federal lawmakers join angry activists in besieging universities and their researchers

Union would end medical school’s 15-year search for a partner

University says 77 professional staff and 36 academics will go, on top of those taking voluntary severance

Groups of leading African and European universities will jointly fund at least a decade of priority research through clusters agreed in the first half of this year, although the delicate details of who gives what are yet to be decided

Young people with asylum status say they struggle to get admissions teams to understand immigration rules and recognise their academic track records

Interventions from universities urging a restart of talks struggle to move the dial, with hopes of preventing summer of disruption fading

Study finds that students experienced psychological distress levels more than three times worse than before the pandemic