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Even on elite US campuses, students seen favouring political goals over free enquiry

Study finds that junior scholars at less prestigious universities have most to gain from co-authoring with a leading academic early in their career

Eastern and Western students are silent in different ways, academics say

Coventry union members on strike over “onerous and unreasonable” system

Public discussion bears little resemblance to the productive relationship hidden ‘beneath the water line’

Share your views on parties and issues as UK goes to the polls

Publishing giant strikes deal with Carnegie Mellon, but California dispute remains unresolved

Leicester’s first BAME leader says students won’t feel they belong unless all staff reflect their backgrounds

Italian medic Fabio Quondamatteo says EU referendum result is behind ‘difficult and painful’ decision to leave for Ireland

Women are less effective at bargaining monetary benefits but have more success when they feel supported by professors, says study

Poorly designed outreach schemes, privacy restrictions and standoffish companies combining to waste resource

Research also finds that branch campus graduates earn more than their peers who studied in the West

Students had called for royal to quit over friendship with convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

Manifesto also pledges ‘fundamental rethink’ of teaching and research assessment, plus end to ‘failed free market’ in higher education and to staff casualisation

Data from a worldwide survey of employers suggest universities that specialise, work with industry and cultivate digital literacy are gaining the most ground

Survey of 10,000 researchers suggests that despite headlines, salary and location are still bigger drivers

The UK’s first black director of estates discusses the barriers faced by ethnic minority professionals and why Westminster Abbey has a carving of her head

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

Academics suggest ambitious targets for reducing air travel and introducing regional hubs for conferences

Tributes paid to researcher who invented pioneering DNA testing technique and championed women in science

Most postdoctoral researchers will end up working outside universities – postdoc adviser Emma Williams has some advice on the tricky business of applying for jobs in different sectors

New York governor joins criticism of handling of racist incidents at Syracuse

Survey released as new data show the majority of US universities have seen a decline in new international students this year

Party would use review to consider ‘any necessary reforms’, having previously indicated it may favour a graduate tax

Hong Kong university leaders plead with barricaded staff and students to leave

Lawmakers fret over weak response to China, but can’t say what they would do better

Study from European University Association also finds that few universities have targets to improve the ethnic and socio-economic diversity of staff

Lorenzo Fioramonti wants to ‘put his ideas to the test’ and end the country’s brain drain

Ministry says change to score – a key plank of claim against Gerd Schröder-Turk – cannot be affected by media coverage

Elsevier could sell Dutch universities a bundle of journal access rights and software, raising concerns that universities could become stuck in one publisher’s software ecosystem

Society president warns parties must address ‘huge reputational damage’ to UK science caused by Brexit

Don’t overlook opportunities in booming archipelago nations, Australian universities urged

Country now second to US on annual list of scholars producing multiple papers in top 1 per cent by citation 

Scholars at Risk report chronicles growing number of attacks on universities, their staff and students globally

One institution has 26 vice-presidents, research finds, following calls for the number of senior managers to be radically cut

Jo Grady says ‘a lot of’ university leaders want to strike a deal over contributions to Universities Superannuation Scheme

Academics to try aiding US president with record of cutting expert advisers

Strong demand and careful due diligence to ensure that new offshore presence won’t be one of the ‘train wrecks’

University stands by royal in fallout from Newsnight interview about ties with paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

Multibillionaire announces investment at the launch of beleaguered university’s new campus

Hundreds remain cornered by police inside Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Anthony Forster criticises failure of negotiators to ‘embrace principled compromise’

New study of US-China co-authored papers suggests US output would have declined if collaborations were discounted

Caught up in a national anxiety about falling behind technologically, universities have recruited hundreds of new professors including data experts and digital humanities professors

Carey gift puts price on value of a name and asks who ultimately should control it

Queensland institution plots ‘visible and confident presence’ in business district as it flags ‘alternative use’ for campus in the suburbs

Exchange students from around the world advised to leave as violence intensifies

New chair of main higher education grouping promises to resist complacency

Research must be at the core of deepened ties with the subcontinent, India expert says

Six leading universities cancel last two weeks of semester after campuses left looking like war zones

Lord Kerslake, chair of UK2070 Commission, calls for ‘MIT of the North’ and ‘HE-FE systems’ in deprived towns

Findings highlight need for ‘carefully considered’ use of platform as an educational tool

Raj Kumar wants greater focus on liberal arts studies, against existing preoccupation with science

Figures show that even disciplines with a high share of female technical staff have few women at the top

Boris Johnson pledges to double public spending on research and development to £18 billion over course of next parliament

‘Non-prescriptive’ guidance highlights due diligence, cyber security and staff perks

Flimsy evidence provided for China’s political interference in UK academia has raised questions over the motivation for calls for tougher regulation

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

Hepi study calls for debate on the purpose and value of the UK’s costly system of residential universities

The two-time Ig Nobel Prize winner explains the potential applications of her research on wombats’ cubed poo and why animal waste is the ‘best study topic’