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Mobile students would face same costs as local learners post-Brexit under MillionPlus proposal

Pay deals in student accommodation bring claims ‘huge salaries are being funded by public money and student debt’

Funding will support Lancaster to develop curriculum for Manchester-based University Academy 92

Paul Hagan says Robert Gordon University principal and fellow deputy should have been sanctioned for failing to declare conflict of interest

University and staff payments set to increase even though Joint Expert Panel is yet to report

Four women settle legal action against university over 2008-09 promotion round

The University of the Witwatersrand will not use ‘Mr’, ‘Mrs’ or ‘Miss’ in official communications

Investigation discovers 400,000 researchers worldwide have used ‘pseudoscientific’ journals

Lawyer says Spanish warrant means that economics professor remains an ‘exile’

University says it is ‘exploring options’, but sector leaders urge caution

Institutions set to be rated on metrics including the number of classrooms and dormitories that they have

Likely downturn in recruitment coincides with dwindling domestic funding

University of El Salvador rector Roger Arias calls on parliamentary groups to reconsider privatisation of water services

Grants awarded under Horizon 2020 will still be paid even in event of ‘no deal’ Brexit

Murdoch University signs agreement with Kaplan to deliver master’s degrees in Yangon

RMIT uses blockchain to authenticate qualifications from its latest course – about blockchain

Leading critic of marketised higher education takes aim at external appointment of vice-chancellors and the ‘student experience’

Analysis of Italian PhD graduates finds that the ‘milk’ as well as the ‘cream’ leave

Vice-chancellor of Canberra institution says it is “about as big as it can be”

Negotiations set to boost access to €100 billion research and innovation scheme, scholar says

Peking University HSBC Business School declines to renew outspoken researcher’s contract

Early career social scientists should be entitled to extensive support from their university long after attaining their doctorate, study says

Investigation into Irina Stancheva confirms five cases of misconduct, but former lecturer denies manipulating data

New Zealand university library vault delivers blast from the past as history and politics come full circle

Large-scale study raises questions about the usefulness of altmetrics for assessing research quality 

Small colleges are renting out dormitory rooms, licensing coffins and selling their own ketchup

University of the People strikes deals to allow its students to progress to leading institutions, but increasing proportion of recruits have dropped out elsewhere

Director Tom Inns explains how the institution is coping after fire gutted its iconic Mackintosh building

Government mandate could force universities to address issue more strategically

Ongoing violence in the country’s capital forces students to flee the city’s largest university campus

Minister’s second ‘pad’ could signal government taking policy more ‘in-house’, some suggest

Australian report responds to concerns about prevalence of sexual violence on campuses

Richard Arum, dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Education, speaking after his plenary speech at the 2018 Teaching Excellence Summit 

Experts in teaching and learning weigh in on the teaching versus research debate from the 2018 Times Higher Education Teaching Excellence Summit held at the University of Glasgow

Elite institutions could face sanctions if they fail to deliver on promise to conduct evaluation of bursary spending

Senior figures are angry over regulator’s approach and fear it could put UK-wide sector ‘in danger’, letters seen by Times Higher Education reveal

The Dutch astrophysicist on discovering the chemistry of the cosmos, whether she’d like to go into space, and if extraterrestrial life would surprise her 

Pioneering chemistry professor remembered

Survey reveals widespread prevalence of sexual harassment and bullying in UK specialist institutions

Canadian university impresses judges with ‘strength of its vision and plan’ for teaching quality

Research shows that Australia’s overseas student numbers have surged while Brexit will ‘compound the decline’ in UK’s global position

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

Confidential data suggest published figures routinely underestimate foreign enrolments in Australian higher education

Brazil dominates the ranking but other countries excel on citation impact and international outlook

Union members at Fort Hare are pushing for bigger pay increases

Stampede to study AI has led to warnings that the number of lecturers cannot keep up with demand

Change would be more than cosmetic, consumer finance expert says

Results from the European Student Survey underpinning the rankings reveal key differences in teaching across the Continent

Government voices ‘concern’ about the ‘culture in our universities’ in response to MPs and peers’ report on campus free speech

Father’s failure to pay back loan hits son’s university admission, under state’s big-data system

UK social science body attacks plans to exert more state control over research topics

Legislation proposed by new provincial government would terminate longest-running industrial dispute at an anglophone university in Canada

Massey hopes to allow diaspora to share in resurgence of interest in indigenous culture 

Scholar praises Indian government for supporting only universities that are ‘ready now’ to become world-class

Australian group asks whether costs of ‘gold standard’ assessment are always warranted

Researchers criticise lack of diversity on programme of major conference

Figures on full economic costs of research and teaching show significant growth in gap that is plugged mainly by overseas student fees

Abandonment of demand-driven funding is working its way through the sector

Increasing use of technology on campus will erode division between online and offline education, according to Jeff Maggioncalda

Academic questions whether new committee should be hosted by UK Research and Innovation