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Survey finds new international students at UK institutions received most non-academic assistance and support

First black president pushes Virginia university to overcome its name and reputation

Survey of UK-based undergraduates reveals fears over spring term restart despite overall satisfaction with universities’ handling of Covid-19 pandemic

Governments must step in because remuneration committees cannot resist upward pressure on executive salaries, researchers argue

Students to be offered Covid tests when they arrive on campus

Opposition, however, may be less about format and more about resource shortages

Campaigners claim forcing staff to reapply for jobs with lower salaries will damage Imperial and leave institution vulnerable

In funding Covid breakthrough, music legend shows value of communicating science, says professor

Australian proposal the latest in a raft of security-related interventions

Event hears calls for improved careers services in universities to help steer PhD students and postdocs on opportunities

Students are lobbying for extensions to the pass-fail grading system that was widely adopted earlier this year, but most universities are proving less lenient than they were in spring

Survey finds Australia and other destinations are losing ground to the UK, with health management becoming ‘less of a differentiator’

Proposal is first of its kind in the Asia-Pacific region for the world’s largest academic publisher

Comparisons with big pharma distract from ‘amazing’ achievement that will lead to long-term dividends for science, say experts

European survey finds there are large gaps between perceptions of importance of internationalisation and levels of experience and confidence

Phased return to campus and more clarity on rules for returning international students are needed, says the UK opposition

Academics say online methodologies can produce more collaborative, diverse and ethical research

Budget, seen as ‘remarkable commitment’ to education, could be leveraged to improve IT and teaching quality

The government points to a decade of funding guarantees, but critics have taken aim at draconian punishments for campus protests and the rushed scrapping of a PhD vetting body

As a Stanford professor attacks scientific petitions, co-creators of open letters on both sides of Covid debate explain why they matter

Institute for Fiscal Studies report shows frozen fee cap beginning to bite

High-profile figures criticise university’s plans for large cuts to arts and humanities, which it says are necessary because of the pandemic and low student numbers

Vital lessons can be learned from beer, bread and even batter, scientists say

Change may come from unexpected quarters, analysts warn, as crisis and Canberra upset the apple cart

Experts say the crisis should have been used as a good opportunity to rethink a notoriously stressful assessment system

While reservations remain, the pandemic has smoothed acceptance of virtual delivery

But large upturn in Tier 4 visas granted to Indian students tempers overall fall

University’s plan to require staff and students to be ‘respectful’ of each other’s ‘differing opinions’ fought by academic opponents

City’s leader announces sweeteners, while pushing engagement with mainland China

‘Students and their parents felt they were promised one thing, and they ended up receiving something else,’ says Edinburgh principal

Universities UK chief executive urges greater transparency in admissions

Nottingham agrees undisclosed settlement after undergraduate cleared by fitness-to-practise panel 

Analysts say industrial solutions must be adopted to wean universities off their dependence on casual staff

Glasgow named University of the Year for addressing legacy of its ties to the slave trade

Senior leader says universities should focus on improving and charging more for transnational education

Public engagement expert concerned about communities that scientists are failing to reach

Panel warns that action is needed to tackle excessive competition and casualisation if research careers are to remain attractive

Panel discussion hears that pandemic should be used as a springboard for real change by looking at leadership

Ex-adviser to UK government praises global scientific community’s ‘remarkable’ response and criticises ‘false narrative’ that he was ‘responsible’ for lockdowns

French scholars, accused of fostering terrorism, fear escalating rhetoric could curtail freedom of research

Australian officials mute as exasperated foreigners watch study and career opportunities evaporate

Tributes paid to a geneticist whose ‘trailblazing science’ was matched by her ‘fearlessness’ in calling out discrimination

Ethnic minority students twice as likely to be assaulted in teaching space as white classmates

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

English and Welsh ombudsman willing to admonish universities over Covid-related disruption only if they have not made effort to deliver quality online learning, case summaries reveal

Picking winners at random helps back risky research, boosts niche subjects and curbs nepotism, recipients say

The crime writer on how to teach mystery writing, why she loves self-help books, and the literary appeal of a campus murder

As Australia’s Kylie Moore-Gilbert prepares to come home, UN human rights observers express grave fears for Iranian-Swedish academic

Ucas signals that admissions body has moved towards supporting post-qualification offers

Chancellor’s spending review research boost leaves questions around earlier promises, as funds committed for Erasmus replacement

Plan seems to unite various factions after acrimony, but could hinge on Whitehall’s post-Cummings appetite for research ‘levelling up’

Indigenous peoples balance patience and autonomy with the lure of education and jobs

Unpublished Australian data show that number of regular support staff positions has shrunk while executive roles have expanded massively

Some students have been stuck on campus for months despite no local cases being reported

‘Technocratic’ solutions alone cannot solve a societal problem, expert says

Snowballing international earnings buttressed universities’ wealth ahead of this year’s crisis while relegating federal government to minority funder status

Victorian budget also confirms hardship packages for universities and foreign students and recovery strategy for international education

Prestigious journal group seeks to spread cost of publishing across a greater number of authors than those accepted for publication

Some find it difficult to make decisions on their own off-campus, survey suggests

Universities UK guidance says institutions must introduce training on concepts such as microaggressions and white privilege