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As Australia’s climate turns back again, universities say the lessons of a horror summer have not been forgotten

One in five survey respondents report being victims of sexual touching or rape

Javier Milei promised to get rid of the country’s major science funder during chaotic election campaign, but will he follow through with his promises?

Education divide report finds Tory support among graduates lowest for 45 years and graduates will outweigh school-leavers in most seats by 2030s

Sacked neuropathologist Manuel Graeber says university was happy with his work before he lodged disclosure about management

Campuses across the country tightening in-class rules, seeking to boost student engagement

MEPs say EU needs jurisdiction over higher education to ensure mutual recognition of qualifications, among other things, but universities aren’t so sure

Negotiations on association deal completed, says joint statement, with signing expected in 2024

Free tuition also to be switched from first to last year of tertiary study, under pact between new governing parties

Union says more than 100 jobs could go at Potteries institution

Commons Education Committee exploring whether institutions should adopt ‘standardised method of mitigation’

More details announced about UK’s new mid-career academic funding programme

Analysis from Education Insight also shows increased UK market share against rivals like Australia and US

Scholars say government is giving universities a tall order without concrete support plan

Analysis of 5.8 million authors across all scientific disciplines also shows gender gap is closing, but with distance to go

Universities UK International says fall in transnational student numbers in Australasia is opportunity to boost collaboration

Union representing UCU employees hopes that decision will act as a ‘wake-up call’

Revised visa figures show net migration hit a record high in 2022, fuelled by an increase in students from outside the EU

Online Learning Rankings will benchmark universities on resources, outcomes, student engagement and learning environment 

Company wins two prestigious prizes at ceremony hosted by British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association

Institutions focused on applied research and employer-informed curricula could be vital part of more coherent post-16 system, says LSBU chief

Technology can free up space in roles dominated by administration but will only result in more of the same without change in direction, researchers say

With potentially worrying changes to Australia’s research security arrangements odds-on to proceed, universities want clarification on amendments

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

Lost earnings and missed workplace experience means PhD graduates will take decades to catch up on postgraduates despite higher wages, analysis shows

The Georgetown professor of Middle East and Islamic politics talks of hating his parents’ return to Iran after the 1979 revolution – and crediting it with his life’s mission of advancing democracy and human rights

Mid-career fellowship scheme backed by a £250 million endowment is part of package linked to unused Horizon Europe funds

Wealth inequities ‘a learning tool’ in education geared to ‘whole-person formation’, forum hears

‘We are ready,’ European commissioner writes on social media after broader ‘understanding’ reached

UK chancellor also funds Holocaust education efforts in universities and simplifies R&D tax credit

Sector-wide pay gap stands at 14.2 per cent, but it is higher than 30 per cent at some institutions

Dame Angela McLean hints that long-observed separation between science and government on research funding decisions is fraying

Institutions sound warning after feeling left out of finance minister Chrystia Freeland’s economic statement

Long-serving David Blaney reaches ‘voluntary exit agreement’ as Welsh regulation transfers to Commission for Tertiary Education and Research

Australian universities say remit of proposed watchdog needs ‘detailed examination’

Minister responsible for higher education tells European universities to stop recruiting its best minds

Court case raises conflict between academic freedom and universities’ duty of care, says barrister

UK ‘needs more good post-secondary education’ but via ‘diversified’ routes, and nations might have ‘limit’ on need for university expansion, says influential expert

Pooling academic resources vital to countering ‘market failures’ in pharmaceutical industry, says Covid Moonshot pioneer John Chodera

Barely half of postgraduate researchers in the UK and Australia feel like they are part of a community of postgraduate researchers, according to major survey

Scientific writing should avoid use of terms like ‘cuckold’, says paper finding antifeminist online forums often draw on ‘reputable research’

Strathclyde principal flags growing realisation that greater national coordination is needed between universities and businesses

Quality and resourcing also front of mind for academic heading first comprehensive education evaluation in decades

As seven-year case against South Korean professor Park Yu-ha concludes, academics say the deep political divisions that lay behind it are not going away any time soon

Institutions without ratings at a disadvantage during crucial recruitment period as many wrongly assume appeals are due to their being designated ‘requires improvement’

Guidelines produced by Oxford vice-chancellor and venture capitalist designed to drive greater private investment in research start-ups

Top-ranked institutions’ contribution to equity should go further than ‘picking the top 10 students from every school’, experts say

Record walkout at top public US system won graduate students a new contract, but ambiguous details have left them struggling with lower-than-expected pay

Funding and focus on job training blamed as five major European languages lose around a fifth of their enrolment in five years

Almost 700 scholars signed an open letter protesting Armin Falk’s appointment to the Institute of Labor Economics, referencing sexual misconduct allegations

Curricula should be adapted to suit local skills needs, Edinburgh conference hears

Union members declare no confidence in vice-chancellor over proposed plan that would see closure of departments

Pledge to rebalance from ‘poor-quality degrees’ to apprenticeships seen as likely rhetoric only, but there are hopes for international student reset

Lack of clear guidelines may put instructors on ‘defensive’ over students’ use of ChatGPT, researchers say

Fearing pressure on the humanities, professor runs the numbers and sees his elite institution in danger of falling short

Auckland failed to give public commentary the level of occupational protection that would be mandatory in the laboratory, says colleague of Siouxsie Wiles

Figures show that 7.5 per cent of state school pupils in one London borough got into Oxford or Cambridge last year – up from just 1 per cent five years before

More rigorous checking targets hyper-authorship, excessive self-citation and unusual patterns of group citation activity

More probes expected after flood of complaints over demonstrations tied to Israel-Gaza conflict

‘Core recruitment practices’ without quotas reduced gender parity timeline from 60 years to five