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Author of a comprehensive appraisal of university finances says officials want universities to keep money flows on the straight and narrow

Education department asserts right to approve language course closures while insisting that it ‘does not intervene’

Scholars at Risk denounces arrests and police actions on campus

Controversial journal paper stirs debate on Asian wartime slavery

Administrative costs thought to account for substantial percentage of US research spending

‘No detriment’ policies lead to wide variation in degree classifications across sector

Researcher says academics should create moments ‘in which students are able to reflect on what they see and hear’

Forthcoming restrictions on Sino-British research are short-sighted, driven by ‘ideology’ and mark a rapid policy U-turn, say education experts

University and College Union accuses ministers of ‘fighting phantom threats’

Legislation will enable police presence on campuses after years of academics being assaulted, held hostage and blocked from entering buildings

With more candidates than ever applying for research roles, some scholars are reassessing how they engage with unsuccessful applicants

Leaders say they are happy to support safe return of students, but worry about timing and convincing staff

Staff who enter higher education in mid-career without a PhD are academia’s ‘proletariat’, not ‘privileged’ young researchers, says paper

Australian department ‘erroneously’ removed protection for former education minister’s pet courses

Former universities minister calls on Department for Education to support private member’s bill outlawing contract cheating

Deportation of University of the South Pacific vice-chancellor Pal Ahluwalia is latest crisis to afflict a Western administrator in region

Gavin Williamson’s call for OfS to ‘support individual academics’ in curriculum rows could ‘set up wall with university leadership’

Warnings that some universities could become master’s-free zones overlook progress during the pandemic, vice-chancellors say

Spaniards and Poles notably buck the trends found in other countries

Expert questions government’s motivations for building another institution in troubled region

Doctoral degrees urgently need to become more diverse, more student-centred and more public-facing, argue authors of new book

Vote comes amid growing row over IHRA definition, which a UK minister wants universities to adopt

End of Trump and Covid not enough to revive foreign interest, main university group says

Holyrood ministers say pandemic restrictions mean students have been unable to gain sufficient clinical experience

Students are recounting instances of abuse on Twitter following resignation of university director and governing board chair

Hefty cuts to the fund supporting two flagship international research schemes do not square with UK’s science spending ambitions, warn leaders

New French-speaking campus attracts few applications but supporters defend its viability

Science and Technology Committee says ‘Arpa’ may be most effective if set up outside UK Research and Innovation

Study says academics should highlight unreviewed papers’ uncertainty

Priority should be better teaching for domestic students and improved research performance, THE forum hears

Success of India’s education reforms ‘matter tremendously to the world’ but foreign institutions will not solve country’s problems, says former UK universities minister

Experts fear submissions in 2021 won’t be able to appropriately account for wide range of disruptions to student experience caused by pandemic

Experts say institution’s decision to scrap plans to build ‘gargantuan lecture hall’ provides ammunition to the argument for more evidence-based pedagogical practices

Institutions that emphasise racial equity are less vociferous about addressing economic diversity in student body, some argue

First student number survey for 2020-21 from Office for Students suggests other universities may increase recruitment   

As military overlords revert to type, concerns mount over fate of detained Australian economist

India could be HE ‘giant’ if social issues were addressed, expert says

mRNA pioneers, Oxford vaccine scientists and Bill Gates are potential contenders for science’s top prize

US-based British physicist reflects on his part in the series that has chronicled his life and scientific career

Annual survey attributes decline to pandemic and large Bloomberg donation the previous year, but says Black Lives Matter movement ‘likely played a positive role’ in philanthropy

Government finally publishes modelling that estimates loss of £63 million for UK universities from drop in enrolment of new EU students

Appointment of former Conservative MP as chair of English higher education regulator ‘adds to catalogue of cronyism’

Trend could be linked to boost in demand from India, data suggest

Toronto professor offers path to ‘innovation in real places’, arguing that prestige research universities aren’t that important

Universities and colleges are violating own policies to fire tenured faculty because of Covid-related financial troubles

Gavin Williamson tells English regulator it ‘should not hesitate’ to issue fines if planned absolute baselines are not met

Growth in collaboration and larger teams could mean that PIs and senior researchers reap citation rewards  

Students say it is unfair to award some students their grades through exams, while others will be awarded through teacher assessment

Study warns lack of ethnic minority representation among counselling staff could lead to problems being dismissed

Katalin Karikó’s struggle with mRNA gives universities mandate – if they want – to tackle persistent barriers

Universities should urge their students to behave better but also must consider how they may enable abuse, argue Columbia professors

Update to government’s international education strategy names five target countries and provides more detail on Turing scheme

Long-standing divides between schooling, employment and industry will be disrupted, predicts Singapore MP

Budget also aims to cut bureaucracy and open up internationalisation avenues 

Education Select Committee endorses appointment of Lord Wharton as Office for Students chair

Crisis precipitated by proposal that could have shifted pan-Pacific university’s headquarters from Fiji, embattled leader says

Pioneering black studies professor calls on universities to reflect on their history and the forms of knowledge they exclude

Major scholarly publishers warn that some titles will become unviable unless open access scheme changes tack on compliance

Peter Høj insists he is not Mr Fix-it, after taking over his second crisis-struck university, but acknowledges need to listen to staff concerns

Arizona State University president says digital learning shift must ‘stay attached’ to core knowledge-generating activities