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Legislation making its way through Parliament could help address ‘brand confusion’ overseas

Public health academic says studies must speak the same language as their subjects

Analysis from THE’s data team suggests big differences among disciplines in the amount of scholarship that fails to garner a citation 

Russell Group university hopes to poach researchers from competitors with generous scheme

‘No more direct access to Springer’s latest papers? No problem,’ says petition, signed by nearly 4,000

Study reveals success of historically black universities when students’ backgrounds are taken into account

Reporting regulations too ‘ambiguous’, allowing institutions to interpret them to their advantage, experts argue

Figures on student numbers suggest that 2012 funding reforms in England have already fundamentally changed the OU 

Concerns over cost and impact of proposals can be overcome, say scholars

Reed College responds to student complaints that its flagship module was too white, too male and too Eurocentric

Trade unions asking for a 7.5 per cent uplift or an extra £1,500, whichever is greater

Study calls for more focus on providing citizenship education to those on vocational track

Concerns that France’s flagship research body is too large and unwieldy to move with the modern times are unfounded, says former president Alain Fuchs

Centre will combine basic research with practical solutions to grand challenges

As Beijing and Canberra trade blows over foreign interference and academic freedom, leading analyst predicts things will get worse before they get better

Researchers who actively push their papers on social media gain more citations, study finds

UCU members accept deal with vice-chancellors by two-to-one margin

Vice-chancellor stands down after union members passed no confidence vote

Members of the THE editorial team discuss the influence of China on global higher education 

Female chemists are more productive and successful in the job market if they have a female supervisor, analysis shows

Review highlights income support and housing as key issues for university students from regional backgrounds

Students will spend 18 months at each institution and graduate with degrees from both

Cost pressures rule out a resumption of uncapped system as we know it, former top bureaucrat says

Study explores how we should conceptualise the role of animal participants in pre-exam petting sessions

Suicide rate among UK students exceeds that among young people in general population for first time, finds analysis

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

Leading pianist who spent more than four decades at the University of Miami remembered

Hefce's Madeleine Atkins received payment in lieu of salary for remainder of contract, but declined 'redundancy payment'

Universities may close centres or be forced to register employees as foreign agents as a result of investigations, say experts

The dawn of the digital age means universities must rethink how they respond to negative headlines, according to a new book

The women’s rights lawyer on growing up in Bangladesh, meeting Mother Teresa and uniting against patriarchy 

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Leaders from Anglo-Celtic and European backgrounds fail to reflect diversity of campuses, says report

Michael Ignatieff says higher education will lose battle against authoritarianism if scholars’ rights are seen only as ‘a corporate privilege’

Domestic funding for business and management research down a quarter in real terms in six years

A switch to open access could save hundreds of millions of euros, says analysis from the European University Association

Funding administrating body aims to survey 600 researchers across four universities to examine effects felt by reforms made to the assessment

Battle between publishers and academic social network deadlocked

Head of Spanish capital's local government investigated over accusations related to her master’s degree

Universities forced to act after case of Gao Yan, who killed herself after alleged rape in 1998, leads to national outcry

Private college enrolments add to worrying signs for Australian international education

Students will spend two years at Trinity College Dublin and two at Columbia University

Westlake University may be government’s pilot of more autonomous institutions, expert suggests

Clarivate promises to ‘scale up’ Kopernio, which automatically detects researchers’ subscriptions and directs them to open access alternatives if necessary

Peter Williams concerned by requirement for English universities to deliver ‘successful outcomes’ for ‘all’ students

Robotics experts cancel boycott after KAIST denies developing autonomous weapons

University of New England commissions independent audit of abuse in its halls of residence

Growing discontent among University and College Union members about leaders’ handling of negotiations

Research institutions, first in Germany and now in France, are finding that publishers do not cut off access to journals – even when they stop paying

Tribhuvan University alumni make up almost all of Nepal’s government, but interference from political parties distracts from research and learning goals, says vice-chancellor

Members of the THE editorial team discuss the gaps in salaries among men and women in higher education 

Academics at British institutions make one in four successful bids in 2017 funding round, underlining risks of Brexit

‘If we want to do more things for society, we can’t do it by working more than 60 or 70 hours a week,’ Rolf Tarrach tells annual conference

Mean average pay gap across UK sector stands at 15.9 per cent, with 30 institutions reporting gaps in excess of 20 per cent

Rising cost of living set to push price tag attached to getting a medical degree up to as much as A$327,000 (£179,000), study suggests

It smacks of affirmations like ‘if you believe it, you can achieve it’, but men’s academic swagger has a dark side

Union members call for removal of threat of hundreds of redundancies and ask for consultation on possible industrial action

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targets students who took part in an anti-war protest at an Istanbul university

Talks scheduled to advance expansion of the US Prison-to-College Pipeline project