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Seventy per cent of voting UCU members support walking out, but 41 per cent turnout is too low for action

Hundreds of students voted against creation of Jewish society on campus

Sir Fraser Stoddart says the most rewarding element of his work has been supervising research students, who supported him personally after his wife’s death

The publisher has reported steady growth and profit margins of more than a third but warned of threat to business from open access

Business and academia accuse each other of ‘more aggressive’ assertion of intellectual property rights

Party’s Lifelong Learning Commission will look at longer-term ‘structures’ in contrast to government’s ‘short-term’ review, says Gordon Marsden

Brexit copyright issues may prevent researchers from consulting Spare Rib, which for two decades served as ‘the most popular voice of women’s liberation’ in the UK

Australian and New Zealand open access advocates want more attention paid to ‘green’ model

Many presidents have pursued their careers just at one institution, raising questions about management skills, report finds

Admissions officers wrote of favouring ‘brown babies’, campaign group reveals

Researchers must ‘put on the gloves’ and bring the fight to their critics, says Arizona State professor

Archive of tweets linked to St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency reveals scale of disinformation attempts around free speech and ‘left bias’ controversies

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

English providers will have to enrol fewer privileged students if the sector is not allowed to expand, regulator says

Tributes paid to oceanographer who played key role in Allied war effort during the Second World War

Foreign faculty’s dissatisfaction adds to the lure of Chinese recruitment push

Study estimates that carbon footprint of global student mobility is comparable to annual emissions of Tunisia

Without devices, classes fostered engaged, active learning, writes Ioannis Costas Batlle

One thousand PhD places to be created over next five years

ETH Zurich’s learning sciences expert discusses his own ‘cut-throat’ schooling, why lecturing fails, and how students can fail ‘productively’

Universities must do a better job of showing how their research results in real-life benefits for society, Charles Clarke has argued

South Korea and China are fastest improving countries in region, as Australia and Japan fail to keep pace

Australia’s chief scientist says universities can’t be expected to respond to the fast-paced changes in labour market demands

Law students will undertake work experience at campus-based firm in each year of their degree

Conference hears that nationalist politics could hamper efforts to tackle pandemics

More than 30 institutions from 13 territories in running for inaugural awards

Research benefits often unforeseeable but must be communicated

Research for the public good being subverted by geopolitical ‘zero-sum competition’, says former LSE professor

Marketisation and intense competition a key underlying factor in spate of senior departures and suspensions, experts argue

Little sympathy among scheme’s architects for suggestion that embargoed dissemination should continue to be supported

Key working group no longer active and grade inflation consultation makes no mention of initiative

Self-perceived levels of impostor syndrome in women remain equally high among senior academics, study finds

Country’s £93 million initiative aims to make it a ‘beacon of academia’, but scholars question whether learners will want to go

Turning to dance may help scientists communicate their findings to those who distrust experts, claims competition winner

American Association for the Advancement of Science accompanied by global efforts to better inform policymaking

Vice-chancellors are leading contract negotiations, allowing universities to make more demands on open access and costs

Institutions that win performance-related funding will fall behind anyway, university group claims

Conservative Party Human Rights Commission calls for investigation into whether Communist-supported centres are being used to intimidate students or restrict freedom of expression

Weitermachen Sanssouci may be the first film to tackle the woes of research assessment, casualisation and an obsession with student employability

Publishers accuse institutions of piracy as revenues slump

Academics highlight brain drain of researchers and loss of international research partners as concerns in wake of latest government ‘attack on autonomy’

University presses need to collaborate and think big in an uncertain marketplace, says UNSW executive

Television historian on his failed attempt to ‘escape’ being a historian, Churchill’s ‘mixed’ legacy and why we need more black professors

New president pursues pet project while existing institutions struggle to make ends meet

Race-based student performance gap doubles when professors admit doubts about innate abilities

Angela Rayner pledges to order regulator to ‘avoid university bankruptcies’ in bid to end Tories’ ‘failed free market experiment’

Event at Nankai University will discuss rapid rise of Chinese research institutions, and upcoming threats and opportunities

UCU branch rejects redundancies plan and blames ‘poor investment and spending decisions’ for financial woes

Large research groups may be less flexible and more risk-averse, study suggests

Cardiff’s Colin Riordan says research-intensive universities will have to ‘adjust’ to straitened times

Evidence suggests citations boost from working with industry

Regina Rini discusses how academics and students can avoid online aggression

Doubts over impact of Australian scheme after previous fee discount programme was scrapped

Universities ‘relieved’ at rejection of defence department demands for more control over technology they create

Rebekah Tromble and Patricia Rossini feared for their safety when the conservative online world turned against them last summer

Glasgow’s new vice-principal for external relations discusses what administrators can offer senior teams in higher education, overcoming impostor syndrome, and why you should never perm your hair

German-Russian conference cancelled over inclusion of acting rector of V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University

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

Only one in 10 respondents to UCU survey welcomes introduction of UK’s teaching assessment

Continental version of UK’s former Higher Education Academy among suggestions on how to boost educational standards