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Groningen pulls out after concerns about academic freedom, costs and staffing 

Candace Thille's move may reflect shift in focus of online learning initiatives

Universities South Africa head says it is too early to say whether institutions will successfully roll out new system

University of Leeds study finds many undergraduates have never heard of term, or ‘trigger warnings’

Improving access to education should be measured by university dropout rates, says Russell Group chief executive

High-profile bronze award winners hope to improve ratings after changes to methodology of UK’s teaching standards audit

Researchers identify lack of clarity around the role of academics, with some performing tasks they are not trained to do, putting both them and the student at risk

New body to bring together Equality Challenge Unit, Higher Education Academy and Leadership Foundation for Higher Education

Former Soviet state can become destination for international students thanks to its successful fight against academic graft, says minister

Infrastructure plans at English universities may be derailed by credit downgrade and loss of access to European Investment Bank, says regulator

Mary Curnock Cook says universities are paying the price ‘for not demonstrably shifting their priorities from research’

UEA expert dismisses the idea that rehearsal-room romances can serve artistic ends

Ian Greer succeeds the late Patrick Johnston at Russell Group institution

Video and podcast coverage of the 2018 annual meeting of the World Economic Forum

University says George Holmes was ‘shocked’ by treatment of women at all-male event but did not witness any ‘assaults’

Lou Anna Simon steps down just hours after gymnastics physician was sentenced for sexually abusing young athletes 

The leading lawyer and wife of the former British prime minister on why she applied to the LSE over Oxbridge, tuition fees and the importance of international students

Tributes paid to fundraiser who transformed the fortunes of the University of Miami

New legislation would bring higher education institutions in the West Bank under Israeli law

But latest Ucas data show that institutions with the worst records in the past have seen an improvement

The brains behind some of higher education’s most successful public relations drives share the secrets of their trade

Different rules used to calculate honours classifications could leave a university with double the proportion of first-class degree holders than another institution

THE data analysis in partnership with Elsevier highlights economic impact of world’s leading institutions 

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

Denmark is not receiving repayments from 40 per cent of EU loan recipients from 2016

Egypt hopes UK outposts will support its internationalisation strategy and labour market demands 

Victims claim university’s negligence allowed sexual abuse to occur 

Aston University head warns mooted cuts to tuition fees in England will only benefit wealthiest graduates

Unclear whether new regulator will maintain programme that informs English higher education policy

Programme aimed at empowering women, used in more than 35 universities, ‘unfit for an academic institution’

Experiment finds groups of students came up with twice as many ideas in classes around midday

Walkouts at 61 universities set to go ahead as chair’s casting vote backs UUK reforms

Average salary of university leader in country stands at A$890,000 (£509,000)

World’s biggest university investment programme will award billions of dollars using a new internal competition for quality-related funding, say experts

Analysis of public sector pay claims that university leaders are paid ‘well below’ those in similar leadership positions

New report highlights growing crackdown on dissident academics and increased political interference in campus affairs

National Science Foundation report says overseas undergraduate recruitment is down 2.2 per cent, with a 5.5 per cent drop at postgraduate level

Fourteen days of strike action set to begin on 22 February if talks fail, affecting 61 universities

Loss of bursaries is not only cause of dramatic fall in applications for UK nursing courses, say university leaders

Anthropologist uses T-shirts and tweets to highlight under-representation of black women in academia

Shift towards greater accountability comes as Trump administration moves in opposite direction

Scholars in English and other disciplines need to engage with big challenges facing planet, conference hears

In first public appearance since his appointment, Sam Gyimah claims Labour’s plan to scrap fees is unrealistic

Technology behind Bitcoin is not just hype, say advocates, but could prevent data tampering and improve reproducibility

Working with pen and paper and cut off from the outside world, Ali Kaya wrote three papers, re-deriving physical formulas from scratch

University of Paris-Saclay will incorporate ethical considerations into research on emerging technologies 

Stephen Toope describes public speculation about Maha Abdelrahman’s involvement in the case as ‘inaccurate, damaging and potentially dangerous’

‘Trained observers’ can help selection committees stamp out implicit bias against women, Europe’s biggest highest education institutions say

President’s broadside against Boğaziçi University raises questions over Islamisation of institutions and international links

Institutional leaders tell survey that current avalanche of criticism ‘lacks substance’

Office for Students asked to tackle huge pay awards given to leaders of private providers

Senior academics express fears for younger colleagues as strike deadline looms

The politics lecturer talks Corbyn, computer games and reggae music

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

Baroness Deech tells parliamentary committee that UK universities are ‘complicit’ in censoring lawful speech while giving hate preachers access to students

Initiative is part of bid to tackle impending shortage of 700,000 university technicians expected in UK by 2020

Almost two-fifths of employed university leavers were working part-time in 2017 

Ibero-American University of Science and Technology closed after an investigation found the institution to have debts of about 4 billion pesos

More than half of new budget will go to the University of Luxembourg

Hotbed of student protest may struggle in future because of lack of interest in committee roles