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Criticism of ‘obsolete’ passages by Gallic political leaders has led to a ban on new students learning French

Doctoral student takes performance poetry to academic conferences and university council meeting

Progress shows business schools have successfully innovated in period of economic uncertainty, says survey

US undergraduate gives presentation in underwear after lecturer questions ‘short shorts’

Recommended applicants tend to be more active members of community and give more generously as alumni, says US research

Finalists for top international teaching award hail from Australia, Canada, Switzerland, South Africa, Spain and the UK

Campaigners fear a huge increase in EU military research spending will lead to development of autonomous weapons

The event will host the launch of the 2018 Times Higher Education Young University Rankings

Academics from North and South Korea are exploring how reunification could work, says Incheon National University president

Analysis of academic boycott of Central Powers after WWI prompts warnings over Trump administration plans

NAO says government’s oversight of organisation is ‘not up to date and lacks clarity’

Universities and sector experts welcome opposition pledge as boost for students and labour market

Employers make final offer for 2018-19

Nordic country’s higher education system punches above its weight in Universitas 21 ranking

Teaching grant allocations by OfS reveal losers from £30 million drop in funding to aid retention

THE Emerging Economies Summit hears senior university leader call for reform to address nation’s graduate employment crisis

Tributes paid to hydrogeologist who spent career at Newcastle and Glasgow

Country’s new internationalisation plan eschews revenue-focused approaches favoured by other countries

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

The Republic of Ireland’s resident Eurovision expert discloses the secrets to winning Europe’s infamous song contest and why it is not just about political alliances

Share of students going abroad has remained stable for last two years of data

Conor Ryan says students should apply to university once they know their A-level grades

Minister given explicitly political task of boosting Tories on campuses, just as policy gets even more complex

China’s ‘educational inequality’ revealed as country’s lower-ranked universities fall further behind

Humanities subjects set to be hardest hit by restructure

Investigation discovers that three-quarters of advertised posts are filled by an internal candidate

World Bank consultant says India’s decision to relax state control over curricula at some universities is model

American students are increasingly using their graduation headgear to make political statements

Boycott comes as Springer Nature reveals to investors how it uses brand and impact factor to charge academics ‘premium’ prices

Regional students and research facilities claim the spoils in a benign budget for universities

The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens will become the first state institution in Greece to teach undergraduates entirely in English

International Studies Association calls for King’s College London professor to apologise over ‘ladies’ lingerie’ remark

Former president of the Czech Academy of Sciences warns of online dirty tricks that may have cost him country’s presidency

Vice-chancellor explains why new degree courses will be vital for the agricultural industry after the UK leaves the EU

Women are less likely to become principal investigators than equally qualified male scientists, Yale University researchers claim

Average pay packages in Victoria push towards the A$1 million mark amid questions over whether spending more gets you better leadership

Reduction in graduate numbers to hit economic growth and tax revenues, says pre-budget modelling

National Universities Commission considering applications from 292 potential private institutions

Government says new student debt figures strengthen the case for change

Title named Digital Publication of the Year at the UK’s Newspaper & Magazine Awards

Theresa May’s call for price competition rejected by sector across the board

Ivy League university wins praise for formally recognising trade union created by graduate students who teach

THE editorial staff and sector experts discuss the gender pay gap, female leaders and the first women allowed to sit university entrance exams in the UK

MPs on Science and Technology Committee not satisfied with government response to Brexit report

Lynn Gladden, Shell professor of chemical engineering at Cambridge, to lead research council

Thailand’s education minister tells conference that a consensus is better for ensuring universities help local communities

Session on how best to support refugees from Syria and elsewhere hears evidence that more vocational options are needed

Tributes paid to a university leader who ‘always believed firmly in what women could do’

Minister plans to simplify ‘dizzying variety’ of rules on freedom of expression

MAC report on impact of international students will be ‘hard to ignore’ for new home secretary

Funding for organisation expected to be confirmed in federal budget

Those who castigate lecturers in anonymous feedback forms should realise their identity is fairly easy to discern, according to academic

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

UK expertise pulls far ahead of Europe in terms of output, but collaboration will be vital if sectors are to remain competitive with US and Asia, experts say

Submissions invited across 18 categories

The Booker prizewinning author talks about novelists and academic historians’ ‘complementary trades’, ‘less subtle’ scholars and studying for a lifetime

Although research has done relatively well in Brussels’ plans for 2021-27, university organisations say extra money is not enough to stop grant application dysfunction

Tech entrepreneur says there is a fear of AI and automation in Europe and North America while students in Asia see it as an opportunity

Study suggests doctorates are now seen as a test of character rather than intellect

British Council conference to hear of downsides to focus on elite higher education institutions