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Researchers at Scottish university urged to avoid travel ‘wherever possible’ under new strategy designed to make institution carbon-free within a decade

Health research funder promises broad attack on racial inequality

Liberal politicians glorify Robert Menzies but few share his love for universities, says former Melbourne v-c Glyn Davis

New funding should be used to lure researchers from industry and overseas, experts say

Academics and public health officials quit Covid-19 research or need police protection after attracting threats

Postgraduate admissions assessments may have digital element despite falling number of Covid cases

Experts praise decision to remove controversial algorithm but warn better than expected scores could put pressure on sector

Berkeley provost must overcome financial challenges back at his alma mater

Toll on younger scientists highlights lack of research-specific pandemic aid

Government encourages shift away from reliance on international student revenue, but expert questions whether this is possible

Campaigners say tight-knit elitism, boozy initiation weeks and a lacklustre administrative response have led to a culture of silence in grandes écoles

Most universities yet to meet enrolment quotas for new academic year, raising concerns about institutional viability

Authors of Leiden Manifesto and Hong Kong principles say plans to use grant income and citation scores to make redundancies is threat to responsible use of metrics around globe

UK education secretary says three-year undergraduate programme ‘should never be the default’

Non-white women just 2.5 per cent of top earners on most research-intensive campuses

Survey for regulator finds teaching staff more likely to lack access to right technology and support compared with students, and are less confident in their skills

Top-ranked Melbourne the latest to declare a surplus in the face of pandemic

Institutions in Double First Class initiative poaching professors from rivals and creating ‘shadow’ academic posts, says study

Repeat of autumn semester outbreaks adds to mounting pressure on Greek system

Despite new encouragement, campuses that quit under Trump not considering reversals

Digital divide is ‘greatest challenge’ facing country’s education system in Covid era, researchers say

No algorithm to be used to allocate grades following debacle that threw university admissions into chaos last year

Political appetite for post-qualification admissions means universities must work with government to avoid risks to autonomy, conference told

Data from study pinpoints first years after childbirth as biggest hit to women’s research productivity

Scholar proposes annual forums among US and Chinese university presidents, virtual international classrooms and end to Cold War comparison to improve relationship

Audit finds changes were made without necessary approvals amid row over senior staff conduct

Canadian college seeking to move away from parent institution after more than 140 years

Latest Ucas data show increasing concentration of undergraduates in handful of institutions

While notching up a leadership position can make a woman a role model, her treatment can be equally influential, professor says

Chinese ministry sanctions Australia’s joint programmes even though analyses highlight endemic problems in foreign teaching collaborations

Bringing students back in tranches may increase the prospect of repeated self-isolation and may simply delay outbreaks of Covid-19, research says

Hepi event also hears v-cs argue that free speech rows reflect wider social issues ‘at play in universities’ as key sites of debate

Students share in small permanent increase to welfare payments

US professor says urban universities have to be better neighbours

Major UK survey finds established staff much more likely to have confidence in university over progression issues

But Frédérique Vidal admits the term ‘has no scientific definition’, and it remains unclear who will conduct the investigation

Australian reviewer who proposed benchmarks before the crisis must now decide how and when to apply them

More students to return from 8 March, but other learners must keep studying online until a review by the end of the Easter holidays

Almost 40,000 student cases were reported before November but most staff cases have been reported since 

UK Research and Innovation announces additional £11 million for UK doctoral students but rejects plea for blanket six-month extensions

With Biden set to revive employment yardstick for for-profits, Republicans demand it be universal

Mushrooming university may need to limit its activities to balance the books, new president suggests

Australia’s post-Covid employment ‘circuit breaker’: casual professors, a revised 40/40/20 split and no more 18-month payouts

Increasing the share of non-tenure-track faculty has no effect on financial health of US public universities, says paper

Major survey is first to link entrance scores, elite universities and salary

University expresses concerns about ‘untrue statements’ but UCU remains in dark over what caused problem

Former universities minister says there is a danger reforms will focus too narrowly on colleges

Organisation charged with leading probe says term has no ‘scientific reality’ and is being used to shut down academic discussion of race and colonialism

Experts voice caution on prospect of quick bounceback in UK overseas recruitment post-Covid, highlighting issues around affordability and changing competitive landscape

Ministers promise innovative funding models for Advanced Research and Invention Agency following debate on relationship with umbrella body

Webinar hears that postdocs are being ‘deprofessionalised’ and encouraged to win grants on behalf of principal investigators

Industry operatives’ worst fears could cost universities thousands of staff and country tens of billions of dollars

Concern tempered by applications and deferrals suggesting post-Covid recovery

Estimate of emissions generated by staff and students during lockdown virtually the same as campus commuting 

The BBC presenter and composer explains why students need music more than ever and how his drama school training influences his music

Tributes paid to a pioneer in the commercialisation of academic research notable for his ‘ferocious work ethic’

Foreign investment or buyout touted as potential route out of financial woe for institutions, while others see ‘multi-university groups’ as more viable

Despite drop in interest from European Union, overall applications to UK universities by January deadline rose this year

While president eyes fees-based relief for students, campuses emphasise need to revive traditional means of support

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