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Minister sidesteps question of whether she wants participation cut, while saying rapid Covid tests will be deployed for post-Christmas campus returns

Office for Students sets out plans for tougher minimum standards related to student outcomes, including degree completion rates and graduate employment

Move will include guidance around when to close, merge or reform courses, but Universities UK points out difficulty of assessing courses’ value

Sector leaders raise questions over timing of pre-Christmas plans and workload involved

Half of regional governors’ dissertations contained copied text, and these plagiarists went on to perform worse in government, research suggests

Being Well in Academia offers guidance on ‘bullying, conflict, death, poverty, racism and violence’, says author and â€˜agony aunt’ Petra Boynton

UK universities must investigate how many of their students are affected by homelessness – and what can be done about it, says Ricardo Visinho

Education secretary says use of predicted grades in English system ‘breeds low aspiration and unfairness’

Vice-chancellors criticise level of contributions proposed by Universities Superannuation Scheme

UK’s chief scientific adviser for national security says threat to universities’ values is most significant risk

Vice-chancellors and business leaders urge tighter focus and fresh funding incentives to drive up industry-academia innovation

Survey finds one in five scholars self-censored their teaching when students from autocratic states were in their class