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Petition opposing Charles Sturt University’s plan attracts more than 5,000 signatures

Universities may feel held to unachievable standards, but removing barriers for all manner of talented people will make institutions better and stronger

Portland State University says Peter Boghossian’s attack on academic explorations of race and gender failed to get ethics approval

Generous philanthropic giving brings significant benefits to US universities but poses leadership challenges too, says Ángel Cabrera

Oxford academic says increasing work pressures and time constraints mean practice’s future is at risk

Tributes paid to expert on Romanticism who was also a powerful poet in his own right

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

Academics call on employers to provide clarity over support provided amid huge variance in policies within sector, but sky-high costs could deter institutions extending their generosity

Having more women on appointment committees has dramatically cut the number of female academics getting hired, according to analysis

Academic experts have been wrong to dismiss the social mobility benefits of grammar schools as selective areas do better on university access, says Higher Education Policy Institute study

Chicago State University ends dispute with academics who criticised institutional leadership

UK ‘would still like to explore option’ of association but talks cannot begin until April at the earliest, says new universities minister

Virginia Tech analysis cites end of US retirement mandate in 1994 as key factor to address in easing faculty logjam

Regulator rules against firm over implication students could submit essays as own and claims about writers’ university backgrounds

Cambridge University Press is latest firm to reveal that some of its titles have been blocked by the state

Research England says that institutions will be assigned a decile rank in seven broad areas of knowledge exchange

Soldier-students likely to suffer heavily if for-profit institutions don’t deliver on promises

Men’s magazine expresses contrition over slur against female students

Richard Davies accuses registrar of attempting to ‘seize the position of vice-chancellor’

US administration portrays campaign as matter of fairness and equity

Positions are being redistributed to Italy’s richer regions, academic group warns, exacerbating long-standing inequalities

End of prestigious print publication after 103 years stirs debate over future of journal publishing in the digital age

Using student population figures puts results of Global University Employability Ranking in context

Birmingham academic says scale of issue in England is ‘dramatically misrepresented’

Agencies including the National Science Foundation are without funding

Document circulated at annual conference of American Historical Association

Raise teaching entry standards or we’ll cap places, opposition tells universities

Data for age profile of academic workforces across the continent show wide variation between countries

With a renewed share of power, US Democrats promising help for universities and students confront Republicans and themselves

Scholars say Moon Jae-in administration is continuing tradition of replacing presidents appointed under previous government

Universities should use federal budget boost to help companies keep innovating, not to do it themselves, top science policy expert says

University of the West Indies plans to use its experience working across its own varied nations to boost its standing overseas

Types of assessment viewed as least susceptible to contract cheating are those least likely to be set by academics, Australian study finds

Australian researchers recommend 'organic' interventions to support undergraduates from disadvantaged backgrounds

Leading figures in UK higher education warn sector will ‘take decades to recover’ from no-deal Brexit

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

Robots and drones should be part of teaching and learning, says report looking into teaching trends in 2019

Tributes paid to leading haematologist who transformed our understanding of blood clotting

Dollars, not diktats, now seen as biggest risk to institutional autonomy in special administrative region

Theory that the protests provided essential fuel for Corbynism has specific relevance for higher education as Augar review looms

In Germany, Brazil and Hungary, students are being encouraged to film ‘biased’ professors, mirroring far-right tactics in US

The astrophysicist on how an all-girls school helped her into science, why analogies are the secret to communicating research, and her move to Germany

University leaders are increasingly expected to communicate directly with staff and students, often on controversial topics – how should they handle this tricky task?

Outpost’s £27 million loss in 2017-18 a ‘salutary lesson’ on the challenges associated with international ventures

Despite widespread recognition of prevalence of errors in psychological research, academics remain reluctant to own up to their errors

BMC Biology’s ‘portable peer review’ policy aims to save editors and researchers time and effort, but academics question whether authors will want to share details of past rejections

London university will shut down site as part of new institutional strategy 

Separate classes, often in English, mean European students are failing to learn their host country’s tongue, new book finds

Office for Students pursues collation of data on contact hours and class sizes outside teaching excellence framework

Australian government is underestimating the challenge, analysts say

UMBC’s success in producing black graduates who later earn science doctorates may prove tough to replicate

Foreign-born academics outperform US counterparts on numerous productivity measures, analysis shows

Wellcome Trust director Jeremy Farrar also knighted

One of two men accused of killing Gregory Kamwendo is a former colleague at the University of Zululand

Cash flows increasingly from south and east Asia to south-eastern cities

Despite scandal and top-level resignations, University of Maryland system head sees football as being well worth the trouble

However, latest data from EU suggests eastern European nations having more success in keeping gap narrow

Toronto scholars say Ethiopia collaboration has helped reverse brain drain and led to important milestones for country

Higher education leaders fear shortage of skilled workers if limit is not lowered from £30,000

Patent citation data suggest that economies such as South Korea, where firms have capacity to drive research, are making most progress