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Analysis of data from Scottish universities provides policymakers with food for thought ahead of next term

Using different models to bridge divide, universities and colleges could move towards more unified tertiary education systems

Going Global session also told that funders should pool resources to ensure longer-term stability  

Institutions face tough choices and often fierce criticism in trying to make reparation for their tainted origins

Polish professor warns of increasing ‘tension’ between national research funding and global science

Jury can’t agree on Tennessee associate professor Anming Hu after FBI admits pressure campaign to get him to spy

Remote meetings and recruitment appear to have yielded big savings, but long-term model not yet clear

Critics allege that political interference has caused delays to appointments  

Proliferation of preprints in Covid era has led non-profit publisher to post reviews from clinicians on online papers

Data suggest research articles from commercial firms took a tumble in 2020 as academia boosted its output  

UK angling to put itself at front of the queue

Former UK foreign policy adviser fears countries could lose ‘monopoly’ over accreditation for failing to inject critical thinking, curiosity, emotional intelligence and empathy into higher education

Rating scale for Excellence in Research for Australia to be recalibrated, with Indigenous studies incorporated as a field in its own right

In seeking Biden perspective, nation’s top court follows process that comforts affirmative action backers

Decades of leniency encouraged scores of final-year students to fake their overseas placements and go ‘sightseeing’

Report from Clarivate also raises fundamental questions about how disciplinary priorities are shaped  

Professors and institutions admit worry as at least 20 US states move to block curricula exploring systemic biases

Lisa Roberts highlights increasing state school admissions as key priority and rejects ‘death of the lecture’ strategy

Chinese students bring benefits but universities are too reliant on them and Canberra should ‘take a harder line’, respondents say

Efforts will only go so far without changes to ‘mindsets’ in Asia, says editor of new book

Sustainable development expert Jeffrey Sachs also warns against rise of a ‘monopoly Amazon university’

Tally of cases since 2018 largely stems from anonymous hotline and mostly involves sexual misconduct

Universities UK on collision course with unions, which warn reforms could cost members thousands of pounds annually in retirement

After decade tackling Indigenous mistreatment, nation and its universities widening racial agenda, says Afua Cooper

Male academics assessed more highly if they work at a top-ranked university but same bias does not materialise for female scholars

Australian minister’s call for specialisation fosters speculation that rejected idea could be resurrected

Regulator extends existing awards, with results of reformed evaluation not due to be published until 2023

Nearly 60 per cent of four-year doctoral universities report gains in overseas student applications for autumn

Recent examples explore everything from radical vaudeville to the legacy of slavery

Trump-era rule means that visas can be blocked based on undergraduate university choices 

As Conservative ministers attack sector expansion, MPs support it locally – offering potential route for sector ‘dialogue’ with party

Academics fear California-based company is gaining monopoly on plagiarism detection services

University of Oxford’s Sarah Gilbert and Andrew Pollard among those receiving royal recognition alongside chair of review of post-18 education in England

Learners to get jabs in line with guidance from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation

NCAA wants federal intervention as states move to allow profit-making by collegiate sports stars

University-founded institutions were to have been combined with vocational schools

Obstacles to finalising association agreements for EU’s research programme now removed, say continental observers

Education secretary says university degree is not ‘the only way to a good job’

Parliamentary resolution seen as culmination of a campaign against gender, race and migration scholarship

Apparent backtracking comes after protests on streets of Hungarian capital

New South Wales plan, which requires federal approval, would allow for 250 arrivals a fortnight

Wide-ranging survey of mothers working in higher education reveals institutions’ inconsistent and often ineffective responses

Changing loan terms ‘might not be popular’ and would cost average graduate £10,000 but could be better than cutting places or funding, says Hepi paper

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

Chemical weapons expert turned Cambridge don reflects on conspiracy theorists in academia, making safe a 60-tonne bomb with science and breaking the world press-up record

Tributes paid to Brown University and Carnegie Corporation president: ‘a man of the world who inspired the world’

Union says education’s secretary’s criticism of students is ‘dangerous’, as Magdalen president defends ‘democratic decision-making’ that led to removal

Interviews with learned societies raise fears that independent imprints will be frozen out of publishing’s future

Michael Higgins warns campuses ‘have suffered attrition of range and depth, loss of interdisciplinary exchange, leading in too many cases to a degradation of the very scholarship and teaching for which they were established’

Ideal of shared governance suffers, though AAUP heartened by some revivals, especially at large public universities

Limited objections tied to nation’s political divide may be theatrical but still significant, survey suggests

Head of state weighs in on dispute, as war of words escalates among Pacific neighbours

Wang Yongzhen stabbed at Shanghai university

Headhunters and scientists have reported waning interest in UK research roles, citing high cost of visas and healthcare as a key deterrent

Survey of German students finds higher levels of cheating during online exams than in on-site exams for the 2020 summer semester

Gender bias in student reviews leads vulnerable females to be more lenient in their assessments, large analysis finds

Holyrood administration announces extra cash to assist with applications to Horizon Europe

Shell chair and former BHP chief executive nominated to succeed Sir John Kingman

University staff are keen on hybrid working, but will it work long-term for researchers? Jack Grove examines which practices might outlast the pandemic

Report author says increasing funding would only lead to more insecurity, and culture shift is needed instead