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The Burgundy School of Business is building its reputation on the region’s winemaking history, but applicants must be able to show their passion to get in

Chris Skidmore attacks widespread use of non-disclosure agreements after THE reveals extent of issue

Elite institutions making last-ditch bid to block multimillion-dollar levy

Vice-provost for academic affairs at Nazarbayev University says the post-Soviet country is supporting higher education to break new ground in international research  

Kelvin Droegemeier tells researchers that openness is ‘part of our value system’

Aftershocks continue amid new revelations of fabrication

Open letter signed by more than 1,500 academics worldwide urges Brazilian government to shelve proposals to withdraw philosophy and sociology in public universities

Hundreds sign petition calling for teaching post to receive salary in July and August

Asia Universities Summit 2020 will take place in partnership with Fujita Health University in Nagoya

University’s emphasis on creativity, not exam scores, aims to help shift China away from ‘degree factory’ model, THE summit hears

Biggest payment in admission fraud linked to Yusi Zhao, also known as Molly

The Sheffield Hallam professor and human rights barrister talks about growing up in an immigrant family, his work for Nelson Mandela and helping to thwart the impact of a terror attack

Tributes paid to leading scholar of French colonial history

Report highlights ‘fear and unease’ among some staff and students who were asked to talk openly about race

Peter Gluckman, president-elect of the International Science Council, says ‘Dr Google’ poses a bigger threat to evidence-based policymaking than populist politicians

Shrinking enrolments at Southampton, Manchester and Sheffield suggest English elite are not immune to pressures of marketisation

David Peña-Guzmán says philosophy undergraduates have enthusiastically embraced experiment designed to ‘reignite their love of attentive reading’

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

Pressures on sector call for ‘brave leadership’ – which includes showing ‘vulnerability’ and transparency – some experts believe

National University of Singapore takes top accolade at inaugural ceremony

Tsinghua University overtakes National University of Singapore in regional table

Hundreds of professors had signed petition opposing scrapping of annual subsidy from parent institution

New policy would allow for removal of members following two-thirds vote of governing council

Employers remain at loggerheads with unions over proposed increases ranging from 1.8 per cent to 3.65 per cent

Minister tells THE summit that space project on which she works typifies national priority to diversify economy

Regulator suggests that most selective universities could admit students with grades BCC at A level without a marked fall in academic standards

At the University of Iceland, female students outnumber men by two to one. But among professors, the ratio is the reverse

Struggles of Hampshire College suggest to some that students may be reluctant to shape their own degrees in a debt-heavy, career-focused higher education sector

Robert-Jan Smits looks back on open access initiative ‘roller coaster’ after swapping European Commission for Eindhoven’s ‘booming’ innovation ‘ecosystem’

Trend reflects growing gap between PhD completions and academic job availability

Research agency stresses workforce risk in low number of emerging researchers

Architects of amendment to immigration bill urge Prime Minister Theresa May to ‘embrace’ liberalisation of student immigration regime

Two-year study will help university assess how it may have benefited financially as well as how its scholars contributed to race-based thinking

Institutions in the UK and Ireland raised £1.08 billion in 2017-18, up from £979 million the previous year

Report warns that racism persists in South Africa’s leading university, but it has attracted criticism

Data on almost 2,500 computer scientists in US and Canada suggest ‘prestige’ of PhD institution does not influence number of papers they later produce

University threat to cut $1.7 million annual subsidy generates widespread protest

Proposal would also withdraw financial support for students from the European Union

Spike may be a sign of a more consumerist attitude among students

Marine biologist Oona Lönnstedt has gone to ground in Sweden after being found to have fabricated data

Analysis of capital outposts finds staff are not as well qualified and facilities are typically less impressive

Bharatiya Janata Party’s election manifesto includes pledges to substantially boost student numbers and create three new specialist universities

Rutgers deal aims to combat wealth divide between New Brunswick flagship and outposts in Newark and Camden

The show’s scientific adviser Donna Nelson discusses the crime drama’s legacy, six years on from its conclusion

Even in larger institutions with less disciplinary diversity, Dominic Johnson believes we must find ways to nurture the ‘resistant’ potential of art

Request a Woman Scientist holds the details of more than 8,000 experts, but journalists and event organisers are still relying on old sources who are male and pale, group leader warns

Former civil servant urges universities to translate their research into the language understood by government departments if they want it to be acted upon

MPs from Conservatives, Labour, Liberal Democrats, Scottish National Party and Democratic Unionist Party support ex-minister Jo Johnson

Three-year agreement, valued at £9.6 million, excludes Springer Nature’s prestigious Nature-branded titles

Despite broad differences with president, long-shot candidate Bill Weld demonstrates how ‘belief in markets is bred in the bone’

Signals suggest Australia’s regional universities could face a tough task in maintaining registration

Survey of non-native English-speakers suggests that, even in natural sciences, other languages play key role 

Some believe commercial pressure could finally be pushing the publisher to change how it deals with universities

University sees valuable outreach in letting school pupils use library – but critics claim it is being used as a ‘play centre’

Analysis of nine European universities finds the ‘innovation’ agenda has taken root – often pushed by students who want to solve the world’s problems

Politicians seeking to quell discontent about inequality and pre-empt populists could turn on elite institutions, observers predict

Removal of UK universities from key European research project highlights financial impact of impasse over EU exit

Today’s students have access to vast amounts of information, so how can academics teach them to critically assess what they read online?

Bolsonaro’s latest appointment seen as likely to continue hostility to universities

Figures show that thousands of students registered at some universities are taught elsewhere