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Wolverhampton railway station

Modern universities should be the engines of levelling up

Any attempt to address regional inequalities must recognise the role of post-92 universities as anchor institutions, says Ian Campbell

By Ian Campbell

13 March

Nathalie Drach-Teman, president of Sorbonne University

Universities must not shirk public role, says Sorbonne president

Newly elected Sorbonne president Nathalie Drach-Temam says scholars will not back away from controversial subjects and that she has no desire to profit from British academia’s Brexit woes

11 March

A red carpet up stairs

France’s university elite is anointed – but excellence still needs work

The 10-year Idex process to reconfigure French universities and make them more internationally visible has reached its conclusion, writes John Ludden

11 March

UK strike action disruption limited, employers claim

Union announces new ballot as disputes over pay and pensions remain unresolved

By Chris Havergal

10 March

Brexit transition poster

ERC grants ‘could be exit strategy’ for researchers leaving UK

Uncertainty around UK’s future in EU research, plus shortage of domestic funding beyond Oxbridge, drove ERC grant holder to swap Southampton for Bergen

10 March

An employee in the UCAS clearing house call centre calls for assistance and advice from a supervisor

PQA’s demise doesn’t mean England’s admissions system can’t be improved

Students need help to make better course choices and lifelong learners need a flexible application system, says Graeme Atherton

By Graeme Atherton

10 March

Doncaster sets ‘paradigm shift’ for ‘sticky’ lifelong learning

South Yorkshire town without university plots recovery from deindustrialisation via innovation and skills ‘ecosystem’, winning OECD praise

9 March

OfS puts 10 providers on ‘enhanced monitoring’ over ‘viability’

National Audit Office says regulator must do more to ‘build trust’ with sector and DfE should clarify level of ‘tolerance for provider failure’

9 March

Firefighters work to contain a fire at the Economy Department building of Karazin Kharkiv National University, allegedly hit during recent shelling by Russia, on March 2, 2022

Do academic boycotts work?

The Ukraine war has led to unprecedented curtailment of academic ties, but could breaking off all relations with Russia cause further problems?

9 March

Students and teachers of Ivan Poddubny Olympic College protest about merge of the academic institution and the National University of Physical Education and Sport outside the Cabinet of Ministers building, Kyiv, 2020

Is the World Bank’s intervention in Ukrainian HE too little, too late?

The attempt to improve the country’s universities was stuttering even before the war broke out, says Ararat Osipian

By Ararat Osipian

9 March

Fork in the Road

Freeze in Russia relations ‘end of era’ for science cooperation

Sweeping sanctions suggest international collaboration could become fragmented into regional power blocs, says sector leader

8 March

Ex-minister warns against admissions ‘micromanagement’ via caps

Student number controls idea seen as response to ‘handing over levers’ to shape English provision in 2010 switch to loans-based system

8 March