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Total number of union branches eligible to strike this year reaches 74

Employers’ body says it has ‘gone further than ever before’ with latest offer, but union says it is ‘some distance’ from fulfilling staff demands

Nanotechnology innovator charged over alleged links to Chinese state-run academic talent programme, in expanding federal crackdown

Academics call for restored government to give long-overdue attention to the sector, and to widen debate beyond tuition costs

Center for Open Science project will pass judgment on journals’ commitment to research transparency

Joybrato Mukherjee says Chinese researchers ‘not always on the same page’ over IP – and looks forward to a VR-enabled ‘entirely virtual semester abroad’

English regulator says universities will struggle to reach goals if they focus on “narrow funnel of 18- or 19-year-olds”

Chris Skidmore says UK must increase diversity of its international intake

EU and UK should negotiate ‘standalone’ research deal outside wider talks to avoid damaging science with break, Wellcome Trust recommends

Research-intensive university groups ask funders to provide additional support for data management

Analysis of THE rankings data shows that more leading academics place universities in Asia among world’s best

Companies retreat for now, but see the technology’s spread as inevitable

The Buckingham education professor’s musings on educational decline are a mainstay of the British press. But is academia right to be dismissive of his views and unusual modus operandi?

Hundreds of complaints are passed to regulator, including claims that punishing hours and pressure have contributed to divorces and estrangement from children

Institutions remain open while isolating and testing possible cases

Partnership with local institution set to be the first UK campus in the African country

Sharing of information improves after Chinese president Xi Jinping warns officials against withholding data

UK Research and Innovation to manage uncapped visa programme

Tory manifesto pledge brings questions over Office for Students’ future approach on quality - and whether it is right organisation to judge

But paper from League of European Research Universities says that anonymous reports of research misconduct should be avoided

Bid to help lower-income students study poverty bypasses normal admissions processes but still sports a hefty price tag

Texas A&M University System chancellor’s public letter to Harvard president is latest incident in ongoing “food fight” between the two institutions over debated healthiness of eating red meat

Debate continues over the withdrawal of a “dissent” course last year at Yale-NUS 

Analysis highlights Australians’ dwindling share of enrolments in their own universities

Return to table reflects ongoing string of advances for open science movement

Universities will come together to offer joint degree programmes and research projects

Universities minister says north-south divide cannot be solved ‘in a top-down way, driven by central government diktat’

Almost a third of staff in UK higher education are now classed as teaching-only

Academics claim that, as well as impoverishing some institutions, removal of number controls has led to overcrowding at other institutions

About 180 students affected by turmoil at Richmond, the American University of London, with some having travelled to the UK before learning of problems

Research grants that have languished in Australian politicians’ to-do trays are ‘spun’ as rapid government action

Research England throws weight behind new innovation project that promises to raise nearly £1 billion in private capital

Australian university joins race to control virus

Big increase would represent less than three-quarters of eligible headcount suggested by official data

Tributes paid to ‘insightful’ agricultural ecologist who applied his theoretical understanding to food production around the world

Inability to begin reruns of experiments highlights the problem of weak methodologies of journal papers, say Center for Open Science director

Open University head says that students should be randomly allocated if a university is oversubscribed

The president and dean of the Asian Institute of Management tells Joyce Lau that being an introverted leader and a minority has taught her empathy

Chinese students worth at least £1.7 billion to sector, representing more than 10 per cent of revenue at several institutions 

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

A growing number of data detectives are on the hunt for sloppy science and dodgy statistics. Jack Grove examines the methods they use

Michael Spence tells THE/Toronto event that maintaining conversations at staff and student level is ‘incredibly important’ in face of rising tensions

New Zealand analysis of ‘globally unique’ dataset repudiates common justifications for earnings disparities

Academics cheer for end of ‘exploited’ system but urge institutions to learn from experience

Internal documents reveal rapid shift to South Asia in Australian university’s international operations

Institutions launch courses focused on top brands and spirits to boost international recruitment

Complaint to Charity Commission alleges that funding to university was suspended, but foundation chair rejects claims as ‘without merit’

Cornell-based centre asks candidates to assemble in teams and submit joint proposals to boost collaboration

Union condemns ‘short-sighted’ suspension of institution-funded research leave, saying move amounts to ‘institutional self-sabotage’

Hong Kong experts, drawing on experiences from the 2003 Sars epidemic, emphasise transparency

Staff nerves fray as whistleblower row university calls time on course

Birmingham v-c to step down from pension fund board this August

Ahead of a new law that critics fear will reduce tenure rights, French scientists have opposed CNRS chief’s full-throated support for competition

UCL academic ‘staggered by the levels of mistrust’ shown as institutions ‘over-comply’ with Home Office policy

Plans opposed by islanders who consider Mauna Kea to be sacred ground

Scholars welcome new ethics training for doctoral students but want broader action to improve awareness

Success rate for Chinese doctoral applicants now well below other significant source countries

Academics and researchers grapple with the latest challenge of a catastrophic summer

UCU report examines how academics on insecure contracts are ‘vulnerable and open to exploitation’

Analysis of Unesco and OECD data suggests that, on the surface, spending has rebounded – but some fundamental aspects of higher education investment may have been permanently altered