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Ability to access the cutting-edge technology needed for such research is one key factor behind the success of institutions featuring in the latest THE cluster analysis

Financial uncertainty had forced institutions to cut jobs and courses

Top academic claims universities have created 'factories' for junk science papers because of misguided funding system

Task force established by government to explore UK open-data landscape calls for greater efforts to ensure data quality 

Universities in the country face widespread shortages, disruption and often violence

Law professor says universities struggle to understand the majority of the population who do not have degrees

Senior academics at Teesside University put at risk of redundancy as summer break gets under way

Forty-eight per cent of universities report drop in overseas undergraduate ‘yield’, following election of divisive president

Poorer teenagers in England will shun university because they ‘cannot access Bank of Mum and Dad’, Labour leader warns

CDU wants country to invest 3.5 per cent of GDP in research and development – more than twice that of UK

Students embarking on degrees can now find out the likely returns on their different options

Twenty-one countries attend annual meeting to showcase progress of multimillion-pound Deltas initiative

Arizona State University’s Michael Crow was the highest-earning leader in 2015-16

Reinstatement of professor over age discrimination must force rethink over ‘unfair’ retirement rules, say campaigners

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

King’s College London and TU Dresden ‘Transcampus’ aims to strengthen ties between UK and Germany 

We talk emergency responses to terrorist attacks, geekiness and happy memories of the Olympic Games with Surrey’s professor of medicine

A round-up of academics awarded research council funding

Experienced sector figure to leave UUK post in September for powerful new regulator

Call for rankings to give more weight to societal impact

A look at the split metrics suggests that some universities may have benefited from having a more advantaged student cohort

Threshold freeze bites while poorest graduate ‘with largest debts’ of £57,000 on average, researchers warn

Academics who take regular breaks from assessment will get more done than those who toil away for 10 hours straight, study says

Sydney’s deputy v-c says government must put its money where its mouth is

Building ties with academics and students across Asia, and China in particular, is paying off for Australia’s universities. Jack Grove reports

Jo Johnson outlines UK ambition to be ‘go-to country’ for innovation and discovery, even after Brexit

University reform urgently needed to capitalise on fourth industrial revolution, says KAIST head

Unrealistic expectations of would-be students revealed by major survey

Anthropologist spent more than a year among lecturers to understand why they don’t adopt innovative methods

Academics standing for election aim to stand up for evidence-based policymaking

Major study on successor to Horizon 2020 also suggests including Canada and Australia in European programmes

Senior minister said that there may need to be a ‘national debate’ about student debt

German analysis finds that undergraduates with the highest ability put in the fewest hours

Foreign nationals who fear being barred from re-entering country if they go home for break are being supported with accommodation and funding

Simone Buitendijk says exercise forced leaders of research-intensive institutions to focus on education ‘for the first time’

Jo Johnson takes aim at Southampton’s leader in outspoken attack on ‘sharp increase’ in salaries

Lecturers and vice-chancellors will now be eligible for four-year visas and permanent residency

‘Shocking’ shift away from fundamental projects harms country's scientific reputation, says author of report

Title described as ‘standout winner’ at Professional Publishers Association Awards

Latest data from Hesa's DLHE survey shows highest proportion going on to other courses since at least 2011-12

Universities could lose out as emphasis switches to supporting innovation

Higher education regulator's new rules aim to drive up standards within sector

Mexico and Canada share their experiences of supporting indigenous learners

Hakan Şükür has honorary doctorate removed over his alleged support for a banned political movement

Universities UK and the French University Presidents’ Conference aim to increase mobility and develop more joint degrees

President offers disaffected climate scientists a ‘second homeland’ to conduct their work

Several student accommodation blocks have been discovered with flammable cladding

Low salaries, excessive bureaucracy and poorly defined research policies add to region’s woes

We talk about academia as a refuge for artists, curtailed basketball careers, and escaping Michigan’s “shire” with the multifaceted music composer

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

University will establish 50 degrees over the next five years

Bibliometric data suggest link to performance of nations' education systems, although academic warns against drawing simple conclusions

University access watchdog also flags falling numbers of mature and part-time students as ‘grave concern’

The inventor of the concept of emotional intelligence explains how the idea can be built into the culture of universities

A round-up of academics awarded research council funding

Generic courses may not be equipping students with much-needed skills, says British Film Institute

Stanford professor says $15 million lawsuit victory will not engender sympathy for publishing giant

UK universities now have until 2 July to submit their entries

Sector figures say government proposals fail to guarantee future for academics based in the UK

Treatment of engineering scholars seen as sign of hostile ‘prove it again’ attitude