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Following hype over their potential, online courses drained senior management time to the detriment of open educational resources, conference hears

More than one in six 18-year-old applicants now gets no-strings-attached offer, Ucas data show

Open-access campaigner talks about the flood of ideas that comes to her at night and the challenges of change

‘Spurious’ justifications for executive pay criticised as one leader claims furore will ‘blow over’

From faculty meetings to exam boards, research committees to staff-student liaison panels, meetings are a regular feature of university life. Robert MacIntosh explains how to chair them

Sexual harassment allegations and Paradise Paper revelations among negative headlines

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

Academic whose research interests were shaped by an African childhood remembered

MPs also hear Lord Browne say government changes to his review’s system meant ‘it started not working’

£10 million gift will help fund what will become one of Europe’s largest centres for interdisciplinary learning and research

Six institutions with strong graduation rates announce new targets 

Higher education access provides ‘inoculation against political dislocation’, Universities Australia tells ministers

Investment is ‘necessary but not sufficient’ to enable world-class research, which also relies on international collaboration

Research grant data shows patterns of academic migration around Europe – with Italy suffering the biggest brain drain

Alternative metrics find that research on dieting, PhD mental health and female doctors attracted the most online attention this year

Response to US withdrawal from Paris climate accords announces first winners – but has been denounced as a publicity stunt by some French academics

Figures also show that female teaching staff earned between 95 and 98 per cent of their male counterparts

As Brexit nears, Dublin plans to upgrade the country's language skills

Female advantage in education dubbed the ‘Martha Effect’ in Stellenbosch study

As Germany, France and Nordic and Alpine countries continue with increased investment, much of the rest of the Continent has not recovered from the financial crisis

Male academics two and a half times more likely to speak up, as women cite lack of confidence and ‘intimidating’ speakers

Restrictions on bibliometric data create ‘two-tiered’ research system, say campaigners

Debate follows news that two UK universities are struggling with projects

Study reveals how higher education institutions’ responses to executive order were shaped by local circumstances

Department’s claim that ‘students could be left over £25K better off’ likely to prompt scepticism 

Minerva uses test scores to argue that its programmes give students lead in cognitive skills

Scheme to bolster ties between West and Middle East and Asia backed by 122 researchers, including 29 Nobel laureates

Joint publication from EU and UK negotiators confirms EU-funded research will be protected and citizens’ rights upheld

National University of Singapore president says focus is moving away from short-term and applied research

Times Higher Education’s first summit in mainland China will host launch of 2018 Asia University Rankings

Michael Farthing’s ‘golden goodbye’ likely to intensify calls for inquiry into ‘excessive’ vice-chancellor pay

Students do not have enough information to make choices about degrees, says watchdog

Decline of corporate discovery programmes could narrow scope of innovation, scholars warn

Metal artwork by British artist Matthew Ellis accompanies concrete phallus on French campus

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

The world’s first professor of duty of care in sport discusses the challenges of tackling corruption, seeking inspiration from Maya Angelou, and the perfect Reuben sandwich

Academics are not always most sympathetic to effortlessly successful ‘super-smart’ students

Tributes paid to award-winning Australian journalist who later became an academic

Open University report looks at key trends in teaching and learning

Researchers develop assessment that can be completed by students in little over 20 minutes

Academic experts on China say the state may now issue demands in collaborations with Western universities 

University defends £429,000 pay-off to Christina Slade as criticism of ‘excessive’ executive pay intensifies

University management ‘actively misled’ union representatives and wanted to keep members ‘in the dark’, tribunal rules

Publisher and research community remain divided over question of access to international publications

With women still under-represented at the top levels of research, some see the rise of more explicit ‘affirmative action’ on gender becoming more common

Garlanded Yorkshire institution denies claims that cuts are related to financial pressures or research ambitions

Not far from the birthplace of preventative medicine, research institutes in the French capital are working together to launch a new era of technology transfer

Donation from estate of inventor Ray Dolby will be used to redevelop the university’s physics department 

New data show UK moving rapidly towards open-access model – but subscription costs jump 20 per cent in three years

Southern Illinois University under investigation for medical school researcher’s involvement with controversial herpes vaccine trial

New programme will build on earlier successes in fields ranging from nanotechnology to sustainable energy

Staff at new UNAM centre will work on research collaborations between both countries

Provincial government has also announced funding for aboriginal institutions to expand their capacity 

Association’s annual meeting discusses teaching in ‘red’ states and need for domestic research

Universities Australia highlights UK’s research spending increase as it warns government

Prize money of €100,000 (£88,000) handed out on basis of scholars’ three-minute spiels

Labour MP leading parliamentary inquiry on campus expression criticises chair of England’s new regulator

University leaders can expect renewed criticism over their salaries and ‘outdated’ benefits, warn governance experts

Accounts of discrimination in Hollywood show value of ‘lived experience’, says editor of new collection

Campaign aims to double international student numbers as state’s universities battle ‘curse of jaw-dropping geography and weather’