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Move follows criticism of redundancy plans and no-confidence motion

Ellie Bothwell analyses how religious institutions shape up compared with secular institutions and how they are adapting to modern mores

What are vice-chancellors’ insights into the trends, threats and priorities affecting the future of the university? Nearly 200 leaders of world-ranked universities give their views on where the sector will be in the year 2030. John Ross reports

Major new survey of world university leaders finds widespread acceptance that casualisation will increase

The mooted merger of the universities of Adelaide and South Australia would cast a long shadow over the city’s other major university, says Gavin Moodie

Training staff and students in ‘mental health first aid’ can help ameliorate the growing crisis, say Clemente Diaz and Douglas Medina

University urged to spend its levy money on training for wider community, not its ‘highest-paid’ staff

Ex-Universities UK president became one of highest-paid leaders in sector

Jonathan Haidt tells Matthew Reisz how a moral culture of ‘safetyism’ took root in today’s students, who view the use of any word that can cause offence as an act of violence

A failure to treat staff fairly and consistently impedes academic standards and hurts students, says Sheikh Nahid Neazy

Cambridge deputy to succeed Dame Glynis Breakwell in April

University of London member is the first significant UK higher education institution to close since medieval times

Ex-Aberystwyth professor John Warren forced to escape in dead of night

Doctoral students starting degrees at Westlake University handed advice to develop ‘strong morals’

Tearing down of Silent Sam reignites debate about future of Civil War commemorations

A divorced institute still living with its ex raises questions about why research centres jump ship

Partnership between Colombian, Chilean and Mexican institutions also aims to stamp out corruption

Outgoing Pretoria leader Cheryl de la Rey will take experience of adversity and diversity to new role at Canterbury

Drastic cuts necessary if funding situation not resolved, government agency warns

New centre could have £200 million price tag and be funded by wealthy benefactor

Adelaide neighbours progress merger plan with new discussion paper on pros and cons

Perspectives of historians, funders and fundraisers address ‘Maoist moralizing’ and shaking up ‘complacent’ institutions

The computer scientist on the future of online education, seeing early demonstrations of Google, and why he wished he had cloned himself

Senior management has its perks but it also comes with a host of new practical, philosophical, psychological and even physical challenges. Here, seven people who have lived through that fiery baptism tell their tales

Religious freedom advocacy groups increasingly turning to legal action against public university anti-discrimination policies

Some countries have introduced gender quotas, while many have reduced state control, report finds

Precarity is a significant feature of the academy worldwide, creating a feeling of ‘academic apartheid’ as it grows. Ellie Bothwell explores its impact

Vice-chancellor says university is committed to improving staff well-being

Lord Sugar and Donald Trump may disagree, but kindness works best in higher education management, says Mike Thomas

Focusing on the mature student market can offer short-term relief from market pressure, but it is not a sustainable approach, says Nora Ann Colton

Limitations on powers of new university councils are ‘mostly cosmetic’, academics say

The long-reigning monarch’s name faces removal from another of the world’s universities

Leading critic of marketised higher education takes aim at external appointment of vice-chancellors and the ‘student experience’

Director Tom Inns explains how the institution is coping after fire gutted its iconic Mackintosh building

Female academics should follow the lead of women in other sectors and pursue mass claims against their universities, says a Birkbeck scholar

Neoliberalism is many academics’ bête noire, but it is also a litmus test of their democratic sensibilities, says Steve Fuller

The prospect of losing access to EU funding only strengthens the rationale for UK universities to develop deep, bilateral international partnerships, says Ed Byrne 

Learning outcomes are very well intentioned, but their use discourages students from thinking outside the tick box, says Robert Nelson

A trip to Rwanda convinced Daniel Haydon that Western universities are missing out on a lot of talent by opening themselves up to only the wealthiest

Former permanent secretary at Department for Education ‘thrilled and honoured’ with move north

New government body for research predicts cost of £15 million per year if tax problem not resolved

In a world transformed, we need a radical new blueprint – for a flexible, less centralised network of scholars and students, says a former Berkeley chancellor

THE analysis provides food for thought on the best research strategy for institutions with ‘core strengths’

UK students may be less likely to commit suicide than the general population, but rates are rising. A properly informed and funded response is vital, says Sarah Niblock 

Minister will decide whether to give go ahead to Dublin consortium in ‘engine of the economy’ plan

Relying on an inspirational leader is a bad tactic for universities, conference hears

University of Roehampton provost Lynn Dobbs will take the reins at London Metropolitan University in October

Government investment will address the underperforming sector but political interference needs to stop for Indian higher education to truly make its mark, argues Deepak Nayyar

Three-quarters of students in the UK now receive ‘good’ degrees, compared with just half 20 years ago. Is grade inflation an inevitable result of the marketisation of higher education and is the picture the same worldwide? Simon Baker examines the evidence

Treating staff and students like children discourages the kind of experimentation that will yield solutions to the challenges we face, says Frank Furedi

In the wake of Malcolm Anderson’s death, universities need to wake up to the need to take better care of their senior lecturers, says Andrew Oswald

Jean-Lou Chameau pushes for formal merger of five grandes écoles

President of Canada’s York University warns against binary divide between regional and global universities

Belgian psychologist to succeed Sir Keith Burnett later this year

List of universities closing down predicted to grow rapidly

Minutes show investment board saw draft of council decision against full divestment

Experts in technology and education must work hand in hand if genuinely innovative teaching is to be delivered in the digital environment, says Simone Buitendijk

Open prejudice against his sexuality has seen the career of one academic slowly wither

Do you feel you’re just winging it, waiting for the day when your incompetence is exposed? Six academics show that you’re far from alone

Chancellors say ‘new university of scale’ may be ‘well placed’ to respond to changing higher education environment