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Country must address socio-economic and regional inequalities, UN committee advises

Amid heavy attention on certificates and scepticism toward traditional higher education, Georgetown jobs projection shows rising value of four-year graduates

University says current cohorts will be the last, blaming declining student numbers

Proposed threshold fails to take account of funding challenges facing universities, sector groups say

Education a better approach than ‘political censorship’, universities told

Ministers’ communications with their scientific advisers have been revealed, shining a light on how such relationships work, but will wide-ranging exercise change how research informs policy in the future?

‘As a female scholar, that is doubly insulting to me, to be reduced to being someone’s wife,’ says researcher barred from National University of Singapore

Prestigious publishing group will allow authors to incorporate AI-written text and figures into papers if technology use is acknowledged and explained

Twenty-two institutions win awards for innovation and excellence in teaching and research

Charlotte Deane will return to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council after serving as deputy chair throughout the pandemic

College sector leader urges universities to realise that without unified tertiary model ‘we are not going to win any more money’

Institution blames inflation and rising pay and pension contributions

Newly appointed trustees of small liberal arts college want to revitalise facilities with funding request worth $571,000 per student

Overseas universities could profit from ‘escape route’ role, as China’s women resist political pressure to produce the next generation

Government signals review of older US tie-ups and appetite for more Brazilian students, as leading rector says institutions do not have to build their strategies on English-language tuition

Higher study can mean little to one’s pay packet and can in some cases reduce it, says research that raises questions about Universities Accord’s expansionary vision

ÌÇÐÄVlog Office list of top-ranked universities giving graduates visa eligibility adds two Chinese institutions, but stretching to India â€˜would boost UK employers’

Zaki Nusseibeh, chancellor of United Arab Emirates University, says universities must evolve with the world to take advantage of the green transition

Difficulties in access to online and physical collections at UK’s national library persist following ransomware incident

Leftist faculty and high overseas enrolments also targeted in congressional hearing

As country proposes tough new sanctions for sharing regulated technologies, except with the UK and US, sceptic asks whether nuclear submarine pact is worth the trouble

After historically black institutions spend years seeking funding worthy of R1 status, main higher education grouping agrees to loosen the terms of inclusion

As governance report castigates his successor, former Cape Town vice-chancellor says he is not surprised by findings but that anyone would have struggled to lead Africa’s most highly ranked university after tumults of preceding years

Institutions ‘must do more’ to ensure safety of students on their campuses and see that learners know the repercussions of actions abroad, says scholar

Ten winners include universities from six different countries or territories

University investigates Berislav Zlokovic after his lab members describe image and notebook manipulation, and warn of danger to stroke patients from resulting medical trial

English regulator publishes latest report in series of government-initiated investigations

Ex-Universities UK president described as ‘towering figure in higher education’

Conference attendees discuss how to respond to the ‘600-pound gorilla in the room’ on university teaching

Former city minister switches briefs following resignation of George Freeman

With one dispute won but another floundering, some believe lack of strikes could actually benefit UK’s main academic union in latest talks with employers, but others are preparing to try to unseat the general secretary in an election that promises to be a ‘referendum on last five years’

Linguistic fluency ‘seldom achieved’ and peripheral to ‘the jobs of today and the future’, Australian university claims

Shitij Kapur fears country’s world-leading universities face ‘triangle of sadness’ as problems with student debt, university finances and staff discontent pile up

American University in Cairo president says institutions must work to close disparities in income, language and digital literacy levels

Susan Lapworth tells business school deans that regulator has learned lessons from first investigations into quality of their provision

Mid Norfolk MP says it is time ‘to focus on my health, family well-being and life beyond the front bench’

Event hears how even the best performing students can struggle to get a job if they lack soft skills

April’s rise in employers’ contributions to Teachers’ Pension Scheme could leave modern universities unable to compete, leaders say

James Cleverly becomes home secretary as former prime minister David Cameron replaces him as foreign secretary

Early figures indicate new enrolments of international students have increased by 2 per cent in 2023-24

Dominant role of UK capital in highly skilled employment means university leavers elsewhere may find it harder to fully capitalise on their degrees, says IFS

Changes to visas and foundation years likely to hit income, deans fear, with big repercussions for parent universities

Funding emerges as biggest challenge to helping staff and students set up businesses, as community outreach work â€˜nosedives’

Republican front runner lifts from DeSantis playbook in idea for free online alternative to ‘woke’ universities, connecting to concerns on endowments and access

Sadiq Khan claims Susan Hall is ‘against foreign students’ coming to the capital, but she accuses him of ‘making things up’

Locals with overseas qualifications are no longer welcome in China’s state-owned enterprises, conference hears

Move is latest in sector-wide process of ‘neutering Hong Kong universities’ by giving legislators say over their decisions, says academic

Polling also finds public ‘misunderstanding’ in idea that graduates lean left on economics, suggesting impact of ‘woke’ universities narrative

State disavows its own idea that professors can’t discuss reproductive rights, but wary faculty persist with lawsuit

Combining a series of methods for boosting research reproducibility found to produce huge gains in overall success

Data shows that universities globally are underperforming in research towards SDG 11, although Oceania is ahead of others

Palestinian universities in West Bank face losing scholars, while Netanyahu opponents also predicted to leave Israel

Westminster government must match ambitious rhetoric with increased investment to keep pace with competition, says mission group’s manifesto

Overall decline in number of doctoral candidates winning support masks even sharper drop among UK-domiciled applicants

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

Despite backlash fears, quotas aimed at increasing proportion of women on academic boards can aid gender equality more broadly, study suggests

Lancet report says learning about medics’ role in the Holocaust could help students develop their own moral reasoning

Australian study highlights gap between ‘statistically significant’ and ‘meaningful’

Economic psychology professor discusses his first book, A Theory of Everyone, lessons learnt from a peripatetic childhood and how a need to ‘manage risks’ as an undergraduate inspired his multidisciplinary approach

Centre for Antiracist Research doesn’t have obvious funding flaws, but celebrity activist still leaves university questioning its Floyd-era hiring coup