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Ex-BHP chief executive and current Shell chair defends himself as ‘committed to net zero’ in pre-appointment hearing

‘Patronising’ to expect lower standards from students from disadvantaged backgrounds, says OfS following newspaper report

Plans to reduce teaching grant are one of ‘biggest attacks on arts and entertainment in English universities in living memory’

Many UK institutions say they do not plan to return to pre-pandemic methods and will use next academic year to test new approaches

Governments have focused on building up a lavishly funded research elite, but the forced switch online has made them realise losers in this system cannot cope

Young researchers forced to interact online ‘do not feel part of a team’ and may leave sector, educationalist tells summit

After criticism that it failed to declare Peter Daszak’s work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, journal has also ‘recused’ zoologist from its coronavirus origins taskforce

Action against Bard College threatens novel liberal arts degree and widens Putin crackdown on higher education

Covid has created a platform for institutional newcomers to ‘leapfrog’ established frontrunners

Education Committee says Office for Students must take tougher action on dearth of disadvantaged white pupils entering higher education

Koç University dismissed media scholar Amir Hetsroni for ‘inappropriate behaviour’, but he suspects a link to his private criticism of Turkey’s government

Analysis by THE shows how specialist institutions would bear brunt of impact