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Pension fund’s deficit is likely to be worse than feared rather than better, says Sir David Eastwood

Funding scholarships rather than a whole new course ‘would benefit hundreds more students’

In move that leaves other institutions wary, Northeastern pushing new students to foreign posts

Bath researchers seek to combine scholarly rigour with campaigning zeal

Leading professor blames pressure to publish and lack of access to chief executives

Committee compares Home Office attitude in ETS crackdown to Windrush scandal

First data from graduate employability survey suggest surge in reputation for continental institutions

Trump adviser plans multi-agency tour of universities confused by crackdown

Proposed new law not as tough as some feared – but critics argue focus on Dutch ignores benefits of studying in English

Fighting what it sees as anticompetitive practices, Trump administration may harm universities and low-income students

Nearly one in five first-year UK undergraduates tell Unite Students survey that they have a mental health condition

Visa route on offer for those ‘graduating in the summer of 2021 and after’, but Indian students concerned by announcement’s ambiguity

Appointment strengthens team leading THE following acquisition by new owner

Contrition helps actress who paid to get answers changed on her daughter's SAT

UUK survey of institutions suggest most feel prepared but student recruitment and staff retention already being hit

But Layla Moran says party unlikely to finalise HE stance before next election – when it could secure pivotal role in event of hung Parliament

Long-awaited francophone university in largest Canadian province to emphasise humanities

International School for Government chaired by former Australian foreign minister and launched by former UK prime minister Tony Blair

Monash union election called off at last minute following criticism

There have been big declines in the proportion of humanities and social science papers published in Norwegian, conference told

Researchers need to find more indirect ways of promoting peace in an age of nationalism, conference hears

As Harvard donates some Epstein money, MIT’s president concedes endorsing abusive financier

Departure is latest example of intermittent campus disruption from broader protest movement

Conference on subject area’s future hears warnings against making it mere ‘problem-solving for the sciences and engineering’

Countries such as the UK and Germany could see benefit to their research bases, event hears

The latest OECD data ignited a debate about the value of an arts degree in the UK, but are there other complex factors influencing the international picture?

ETH rector says academia should focus on ‘excellent performances’, not quantity of research

Gemma Hersh acknowledges that publishing giant could do more to demonstrate its value

Universities also warned that lack of diversity in AI is leading to missed opportunities to solve important problems

OECD education adviser Dirk van Damme highlights disappointing maths and literacy scores of university leavers

Rheumatologist previously served as government chief scientific adviser and director of Wellcome Trust

Gavin Williamson also calls for restrictions on unconditional offers more widely, potentially via grade threshold or numbers cap

World Economic Forum economist Saadia Zahidi says campuses must prevent ‘hollowing-out of the middle class’ for sake of social stability

Italian mathematician Alessio Figalli says falling short demonstrates the testing and unknowable nature of research

Commons Science and Technology Committee also calls for rebalancing of funding between disciplines and greater support for small, specialist institutions

Shift in alignment towards US sparks doubts over Horizon Europe association

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

The futurist on her gutsy mum, why technology should liberate not control, and how graduates are turning their backs on Silicon Valley

Tributes paid to founder of world-system analysis

Australian report warns against fetish for interdisciplinarity, citing increasing specialisation of subfields

Ministers considering report outlining possibility of setting up domestic alternative post-Brexit

University of Canberra, QUT and UNSW Sydney the standout performers in a rising field

Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski tells young scholars to focus on research and ignore ‘shitty job market’

Harvard professor says universities must take on responsibility for morality in a post-institutional and post-religious world

UK universities struggle in latest league table, as institutions in Germany, China and Australia make progress

This autumn Chestnut Hill College will host one of the world’s most unusual annual academic conferences

‘This is a regime that believes you should govern by clubbing people,’ says Frank Dikötter

Laser expert challenges university over alleged age discrimination and unfair dismissal

Brian Schmidt says academia is losing brightest researchers because they cannot endure ‘intolerable’ precarity throughout their thirties

Boris Johnson government announces reversal of Theresa May’s abolition of the visas, seven years on

MP moved back to old brief after less than seven weeks away, replacing Jo Johnson

With US-style personal contributions and Scandinavian-style payoffs, Australians have the worst of both worlds, suggests Education at a Glance

Higher education institutions urged to change tactics when lobbying for extra funding

Mariya Gabriel to take on role with increased ‘weight and visibility’

French-born scientist’s discoveries explained the organising principle of the adaptive immune system

Consultation raised concerns that proposal was too prescriptive and bureaucratic

Education at a Glance finds graduate earnings still buoyant despite expansion, but education director warns on variations across subjects

China’s rise has led to a surge in engineering research – although the discipline is growing in importance in other countries too

Oxford professor’s response to male scholar’s guide to publication considers gendered nature of research career advice

Göttingen loses president-elect and chair of search committee after legal challenge