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The Warwick Arts Centre director talks about how a school led by Britain’s first black headteacher and her new home in a diverse Coventry suburb have both inspired her

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

Senior civil servant said Migration Advisory Committee report ‘looks good’ weeks prior to publication of document that backed Theresa May’s stance

Tributes paid to pastor, foreign policy expert and college president

Ucas analysis also reveals that such offer-making is even more widespread when ‘conditional unconditional’ offers are included 

Whether you approach an editor in person, over email or on the phone, make sure to tap into their passion for the subject, writes Nature’s Magdalena Skipper

Analysis of rankings data suggests Australia has made ground and without an apparent cost to research quality

Ex-submariner ‘wishes to pursue further academic opportunities and will remain active in the sector’

Roadblock could stall progress in appointment of more female vice-chancellors, report warns

More than 40 per cent of firsts last year were ‘unexplained’, finds UUK-commissioned report

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says policy will provide protection if potential visa restriction, pandemic or trade war curbs enrolment

Fewer than one in three nations set specific participation targets for disadvantaged groups, study finds

Adam Habib fears ‘race to the middle’ if national fee-setting regime introduced

Scholar loses confidence in application process after her previously approved project fails research council review

Latest edition of Clarivate analysis suggests nation is on upward trajectory

Reduce applicants’ workload and review funding for indirect research costs, Australian MPs tell government

Task force affirms support for green open access and says that poorer researchers should not miss out

UK Engagement Survey indicates less affluent students do more independent study despite greater demands on their time

Universities’ moves follow ministers’ demand for reduction in international student numbers

But Sam Gyimah bases comments on data he accepts are only a ‘snapshot’ of what graduates go on to earn

Richard Davies and three others on leave while institution carries out an internal investigation

Doctoral student at was sentenced to life in prison on spying charges

Government poll condemned as insensitive

Analysis of impact of doctoral training centres funded by Economic and Social Research Council prompts further questions over approach to postgraduate learning

Research the goal but not the currency, as Australian universities chase Chinese dollars

University of British Columbia professor quits leadership of Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies in protest at funding reforms

Casual academics stuck in second class, as gold-plated conditions make tenure a distant dream

Colleges confront challenges around hostility on campus and concerns over plagiarism

John Morgan honoured at Chartered Institute of Public Relations’ annual Education Journalism Awards

Ronald Daniels promises to take more students from poor backgrounds as observers say $1.8 billion donation would be better spent elsewhere

Legislation leaves government free to ‘ratchet up’ levy, say critics

Oxford’s Dorothy Bishop says spread of funding would be largely unchanged

Conference hears how the biases of historic collections need to be addressed

Universities minister Sam Gyimah says student exchanges should continue, despite UAE’s jailing of Matthew Hedges

Pension scheme will re-run its valuation and consult universities on proposals to save defined benefits, although April’s cost increases will go ahead

Although less than half of fee income typically goes directly to teaching, English universities should not fear more openness, says Hepi study

Officials give GSM green light for public funding despite knowing of its financial worries, while ministers ‘refuse to back public universities’

MPs criticises government, which would have recouped £1.7 billion sale price in just eight years’ repayments

After spending a century in and around academia, Ukraine’s chief scientist reflects on his father’s ‘genius’, Chernobyl and how scientists helped to win the Second World War

Frustration with ‘snail’s pace’ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss targets

Major Ucea study finds ethnic minority staff suffer ‘significant pay penalties’ relative to white male staff with equivalent academic backgrounds

Jack Grove asks whether those who lead academic departments and universities can still realistically find the time to be effective researchers

Tributes paid to leading physicist who became first provost of Imperial College London

Long-time university leader is third top MSU official charged criminally with a failure to properly account for decade-long pattern of abuse by team doctor

Matthew Hedges, a PhD student specialising in Middle Eastern politics, was detained at Dubai airport on 5 May and held in solitary confinement

Students’ union leaders and university staff visit former Nazi concentration camp to help stamp out discrimination on UK campuses

Fewer than half of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Centres for Doctoral Training rated ‘good’

Data analysis by THE looks at three disciplines where the rise in firsts has been particularly high

Scholars allowed back to work might not be able not return to previous institutions or large cities, Science Academy warns

Survey also reveals citations have little influence over the content of a paper, raising questions over citation metrics

‘Aspiration is not enough’, says Sir Paul Nurse of goal to spend 2.4 per cent of GDP on R&D

Regional threats and migration policy changes could ‘jeopardise student flows’, says study

Overwhelming majority of survey respondents say lack of money has held back their career

Office for Students says it will require some institutions to revise their contingency plans for closure

Key policy exploited by language colleges offering work permits rather than education

Several students at the University of Toronto have been ordered to repay money received during an award ceremony

Tycoon’s donation is record for a US educational institution and seen as potential groundwork for 2020 presidential run

Wollongong move reflects Malaysia’s allure and hot competition back home

Robert-Jan Smits attempts to allay concerns of junior academics considering moving country because of planned publishing shift

Scholars subject to ‘threats’ and arrests in the wake of Jair Bolsonaro’s presidential victory