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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

Robert MacIntosh offers managers some hints on how to succeed at their university strategy day

Gradings influenced more by sex and ethnicity than teachers’ experience

Springer Nature says highly selective titles need special treatment under European-led open access initiative

Data from the UK, US and Australia suggest science doctorates continue to dominate expansion, but why?

Treasury wants longer delay to England’s post-18 review so it is ‘part of’ spending review, but earlier publication could give sector more say

Liberal arts professor Dan Mathewson uses his wrestling alter ego to explore the politics of the working-class American South

Institutions struggle to cope with changing student tastes, demographic shifts and the difficulty of scaling up their model

University began investigation after concerns about £200 million development project led to suspension of v-c and dean

Average salary rise of £8,000 awarded to English university leaders highlights ‘lightweight’ nature of new regulator, says University and College Union

Australian university releases details of curriculum for philanthropically funded degree

Dozens of universities are already interested in striking ‘civic university agreements’ proposed by commission

Pupils in rural and coastal areas are losing out in the drive to widen participation, says charity

House of Lords committee also calls for UK to fully associate to EU’s Horizon Europe and Erasmus+ programmes after Brexit

Academics have been urged to mention China’s persecution of Muslim minorities at every public event in which they participate

Switching to a six-point scale in surveys eliminates perceived gap in teaching performance, study finds

Welsh university says it is not currently planning compulsory redundancies but cannot rule them out in future

Sir Chris Husbands visits Australia as it considers introducing performance-related funding system similar to UK’s teaching excellence framework

Senate education committee chair pushes to apply federal aid eligibility test for private colleges across whole sector

Announcement follows days of speculation over senior leadership at Leicester institution

University presses should not produce popular books at the expense of academic ones, say scholars

Royal Holloway professor Jeff Frank back at work after lengthy suspension over ‘farcical’ and ‘non-specific’ charges relating to union activity

Australian researchers say a lack of guidance material forces researchers to second-guess ethics committees

Officers draw on expertise from around the world as they deal with protests, extremist speakers and hate crimes

Counting China’s first green billionaire among your mentees doesn’t hurt in funding applications, says UNSW professor

Rebalancing of global higher education promises end of era in which institutions all ‘strive to be the same as Harvard’, says professor

Creation of fake university seen as worrying but ultimately justified by sector leaders

Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex

Larry Bacow calls campuses ‘far more adaptable and durable’ than sceptics claim

Chair of Migration Advisory Committee says target no longer influences policy on student migration

Durham, Imperial College and St Andrews all had a smaller share of first years from state schools in 2017-18 than Cambridge

Vice-chancellor predicts ‘very significant’ demand at Leipzig branch campus

Bergen rector says UK's failure to commit to European student mobility overlooks importance of ties between Britain's north and Norway

US government funding $7.6 million (£5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility

Ramsay Centre proposal ‘crosses red lines’, says union

Foreign applications down 4 per cent, enrolments drop 1 per cent in ‘troubling’ sign for graduate schools

Record rate applying among English 18-year-olds counters demographics but applications to lower-tariff institutions still struggling

Tributes paid to Chicago authority on Buddhism

English minister says he opposes minimum grade thresholds for university entry and does not believe there is a ‘creeping culture of censorship’ on campus

Universities lobby enrolment target, while Jo Johnson leads drive for return of post-study work visas

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

New £5.7 million institute at the Technical University of Munich triggers ‘ethics washing’ debate

Researchers who trace links between academic supervisors and students claim that it can help to shed light on the nature of mentoring

Teachers must guide science students in how to ‘tell a story’ in their reports, write Anna Sajina and Sergei Sazhin

The case of Phillip Adamo, an academic at Augsburg University, provokes debate about the taboos of discussing literature

A mass exodus of talent prompted by political and humanitarian crisis leaves universities without staff or students left to teach

MIT expresses ‘deep sense of revulsion’ over Khashoggi killing but won’t override faculty choice of partners

Survey reveals many staff in UK universities are sceptical about the value of workload models

Academics call on university to denounce Mthuli Ncube after violent repression of protests

Scholar warns that rising numbers of international university staff in Singapore could ‘make the academy more conservative’

Automatic green cards for international PhD graduates at US universities could restore America’s ‘competitive advantage’, says Robert Zimmer

Academics assess the impact Meghan Markle may have in her new role as patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities

Four institutions to pilot online module next year

But flagging Chinese applications could dampen future growth

Birkbeck is first institution to say it does not want to take credit for work of academics who left on bad terms

Cambridge economist uses nudity to make the case against the UK leaving the European Union and for ‘my body, my choice’

Researchers participating in China’s Thousand Talents initiative – aimed at luring scientists back home – urged to quit

Gift from the David and Claudia Harding Foundation is the biggest single donation made to a UK university by a British philanthropist

Brian Schmidt says system of last-minute offers persists because it is ‘easy’ for universities