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University of Guerrero rector seeks support from military police after six violent attempts to abduct women are reported on campus

EU-backed project using facial-, voice- and keystroke-identification technology enters final stages

Authoritarian populist governments prevent bloc from taking action to protect academic freedom, say scholars

Scholar says Western students may be more reluctant to study in Taiwan, but others question China’s influence on overseas student flows 

Applications and offers tumble for the first time this decade

NUS vice-provost on crusade against built-in obsolescence

Storm of protest across academia against Simon Birmingham's scuttling of humanities grants worth A$4.2 million (£2.3 million) 

Win or lose, Harvard may need to ask whether pursuing its affirmative action case all the way to the Supreme Court is in the best overall interest of US higher education

Tokyo Medical University not alone in rigging entrance exams to exclude women

Experts say Western institutions and academics have played a role in ‘supporting and perpetuating the Saudi regime’

UUK and CBI back transformation of apprenticeship levy into ‘skills levy’

Liberal institution has been left in legal limbo for 18 months by Viktor Orbán’s government

Political intervention at odds with government’s free speech campaign

UK universities ‘engaged in intensive planning’ for no-deal Brexit impact across range of activities

Frances Arnold says she feels ‘deeply distressed’ by public mistrust of science

As number of applicants from the EU flatlines, UK and rest of world drives growth

Uclan role in Preston Model sheds light on what a Labour government could mean for universities, beyond the fees pledge

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

Tributes paid to expert in English language testing

Cambridge leads combined results of three main UK university league tables for eighth year running

The humanities professor discusses her passion for human rights, how universities can work with refugees, and learning to stop apologising

Nearly 15 per cent of American undergraduates diagnosed with anxiety, and 12.2 per cent have depression, major study finds

Older partner left with regrets, as youngster pulls plug on mooted marriage

Duke and Duchess of Sussex highlight universities’ work on climate change resilience and gender equality

Conflict over proposals to grant say in running of university to all 4,000 postdocs, who conduct ‘bulk’ of research

Tsinghua provost urges researchers to take the risks required to achieve major breakthroughs

Trump administration plans to allow universities to attract federal funding for students based not on the amount of time they spend studying but on measurements of their ability

Consultants argue Humboldtian ideal of research-informed teaching ‘shackles’ institutions into uniformity

Negotiations unable to reach agreement on ‘threshold issues and strategic risks’

Satisfaction with postgraduate research declines significantly over course of programme, survey reveals

Women and Equalities Committee call for UK to follow US Title IX example, accusing government, regulators and institutions of ‘passing the buck’

Government says rules on conduct of civil servants should apply to scholars at central universities

Half of continental institutions are developing online learning programmes, survey says

Survey of scientists at Francis Crick Institute finds that only 10 per cent are confident about the future of UK science

Staff at seven campuses set to walk out after hitting required turnout

Leaders of universities around the world consider how to advocate for international higher education amid rising nationalist agendas 

UK higher education providers to be assessed across 34 disciplinary areas

Increase in contributions to Teachers’ Pension Scheme will cost post-92 universities about £140 million annually, Ucea says

King’s College London scholar says that ‘a growing tide’ of academics now recognise that scientific meetings can no longer be held in the US

Regional universities ‘would be biggest victims’ of restrictions on city study

Joseph Aoun says campuses in North America and Europe are heeding his call for curriculum change

Office for Students starts work on master’s version of National Student Survey

Director of Indian Institute of Technology Bombay says universities in India are improving but progress will be slow despite government initiatives

THE’s data editor discusses our most recent data-driven stories 

Members say professional organisations dependent on income from subscription-model journals face ‘existential’ threat from landmark open access policy

Government support for rural university initiative may not get it across the line

US medical training has embraced wider perspectives, but progress might be slower elsewhere, scholars say

Younger academics spending far less time on scholarship than in leading nations, analysis suggests

A few institutions in the western part of the country are embarking on a social-educational experiment

No-confidence motion that triggered walkouts at the University and College Union’s June congress is shelved at recall event

Lawsuit by an Asian-American student challenging rejection reveals white students, not black applicants, to be the advantaged party

The animosity towards higher education seen in the UK is likely to head Down Under, vice-chancellor warns

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

Strathclyde education lecturer calls for other academics to speak out

The entrepreneurial chemist talks about molecular tools, batteries in the walls and a three-slice secret to success

Physicist who transformed himself into leading higher education expert remembered

Royal Historical Society report warns dynamism of discipline risks being stifled by lack of diversity

Many countries on continent have not repaired cuts made during financial crisis, despite economic growth

Former HKUST leader will draw on his experience in the East and the West as head of Saudi Arabian private university

THE data show that Russia’s research influence in social sciences is waning, while other nations are failing to progress