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Umbrella body for research councils accepts MPs’ call for organisation to monitor whether universities carry out misconduct investigations properly

Jo Johnson’s amendment wins support from 26 Tories, including brother Boris, prompting suggestions it will be accepted by government

Private funders and charitable foundations urged to support vital studies

Australian universities kept doing what they were already doing after government froze teaching funds

Increasing lead over US and Europe may raise questions over who controls future of green technology

Identical CVs with different names on them sent to 250 academics in experiment

Three vice-chancellors get CBEs, as Anna Vignoles, Lee Elliot Major and Kevin Fong also among those honoured

Former universities minister renews attack on Oxford’s and Cambridge’s records on access

England’s universities minister says arts and humanities must not be marginalised in wake of Augar review

University chooses ‘private sector partner’ to deliver project

Researcher hopes showing at United Nations will spur further action to help the most disadvantaged artisans

Study of grant funding in Australia suggests that collaboration across STEM and non-STEM divide is not the norm

Shigeru Miyagawa describes how artificial intelligence could transform teaching and assessment

David McKay hopes AI might help universities select students with vital ‘soft skills’

Administrations ease back on foreign fee splurge to avoid financial overexposure and to protect student experience

Augar review’s call to replace lost income ‘not credible’, says Lord Willetts, while Jo Johnson warns that any such funding stream could be ‘slush fund’ for ministerial projects

V-c who chairs financial sustainability group warns that deficit on doctoral training raises major questions

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

The conservator of threatened language explains why two people are as important as 2 billion, from a linguistics point of view

Former president who won an ‘Emmy’ for his work to open US courtrooms to television cameras remembered

A new approach focused on prevention is needed to arrest rise in number of students facing charges of academic misconduct, writes Rachel Maxwell

Schedule reform refusal points to deeper problem, pioneer tells conference

More than 30 universities from G7 countries have launched a ‘U7 Alliance’, which will hold its first summit next month

Schemes awarded funding include early intervention scheme developed with support of father of student who took his own life

Shifting towards open access journals will only achieve so much when review and editing processes take so long, scientists say

University acknowledges that drop in student recruitment has brought ‘financial challenges’

‘Science diplomacy’ is seen as a crucial way to build international trust, but the idea is undergoing a radical rethink

New drive for philanthropic largesse amid faltering public funding and nerves about foreign fees

Peers hear debate about whether English universities might become more reliant on international students if fee cut recommended by Augar review is implemented without replacement funding

Revive your interest in universities, businesses told, as interest rate hits historic low

Almost two decades of records accessed in latest attack

Plans to build a multi-university campus in the Channel Islands are taking shape

Next step of Plan S will require publishers to release acceptance rates and review times

Political survival chances slim for report’s HE funding plans, but some issues won’t go away, senior sector figures suggest

Institutions Down Under do not have the resources to lead the world across the board, says former vice-chancellor

Anna McKie explores what the recommendations mean for universities, students, graduates and taxpayers

The Surrey professor and broadcaster explains how science communication can entertain and enlighten

European University of Business claims that it has university status

Reflecting concern about validity of student evaluations, Australian institutions following North American and European move towards greater use of observations

US university’s move means that its graduates are entitled to three years of post-study work, not one

There are plenty of pluses in being the only campus in town, new Australian v-c insists

After crackdowns on campus, members of Congress move to coordinate policy for universities

Consultation responses had called for start of mandate to be pushed back from January 2020

Universities need to give staff more support about how to deal with negative comments, say researchers

Vacataire status means not only low pay, but six-month waits between wages, says the Confederation of Young Researchers

Leap in proportion of ‘above world standard’ research may reflect decline in average citation rates around the globe

Declines heaviest among small colleges, men, and states of Florida and Illinois

Cost growth still set to outstrip funding, as ‘fees free’ absorbs the fat

England’s post-18 education review panel says replacement public funding should be targeted to courses with most ‘social and economic value’

Post-18 funding review calls for minimum grants of £3,000 annually for poorest and extending loan payment period to 40 years

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

Academics call for development of clear policies on misconduct, and lifetime bans for offenders

Long-anticipated review of post-18 education and funding in England delivers 53 recommendations for government

Tributes paid to energy engineer with a passion for helping the environment

The newly appointed head of research at Scotland’s Rural College talks of her Irish upbringing and explains how better understanding of agriculture and animal sciences is key to reducing the impact of climate change

School’s new student intake fell by nearly 40 per cent in just two years

Asked by THE why taxpayers should not be able to immediately see the results of research they financed, Kelvin Droegemeier answered: ‘They maybe should’

Giving those in professional services a sense of identity and purpose in increasingly complex institutions are among keys, experts say

Judge says that salaries paid to Catherine Freyd’s colleagues reflect departmental roles and retention raises

European elections may give Brexit Party leader a springboard to amplify his attacks on academics