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Conference hears how University of Adelaide uses metrics to improve performance

Nearly a million households expected to benefit from deal covering SUNY and CUNY systems 

THE DataPoints figures detail how country has surpassed India but still lags behind South Korea

Country also looking to build stronger links with UK universities

Mahmood Mamdani describes the rationale behind his pioneering research institute in Uganda

HEA expert says universities may not want to jeopardise good institutional rating

Sociologist is reportedly still blocked from leaving the country

Harvey Mudd head explains how elite college became ‘poster child’ for diversity

Hong Kong Polytechnic University initiative goes against trend towards shorter programmes

British researchers no longer win the most grants for established scientists, having already fallen behind in early career category

Joint honours approach attracts more women and ethnic minorities to field, says Northeastern dean

Figures demonstrate the power of the ‘golden triangle’ in bidding for EU cash

Government bar on Chongyi Feng returning to Australia increases doubts over country's openness

V-c warns that European Court of Justice role in grant disputes makes UK association ‘difficult to see’

Prizes of £80,000 in unrestricted funding up for grabs for best junior principal investigators

The noted theatre director talks about dispelling drama school preconceptions, reducing tuition fees and negotiating with local gangs

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

Summarising your journal paper effectively helps to ensure that it reaches the right audience

Warnings that state involvement in funding decisions is harming institutions’ abilities to compete

A round-up of academics awarded research council funding

Do you appear on this year’s shortlist?

Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own

Academic calls on Facebook and Twitter to share more information with scholars

More money and competition for tenure has helped country’s young researchers progress

Equality Challenge Unit study details how ethnicity and sexuality hold back female researchers

Newer universities excel when it comes to internationalisation and research influence

Parliament approves legislation that institution says would force it out of Budapest

Institution has tightened security after an academic and seven students died last year

Netherlands' market share of mobile scholars grows by 15 per cent in 10 years

Critics fear global event risks ‘trivialising and politicising’ research

Researchers say students who use computers score half a grade lower than those who write notes

Without input from other disciplines, new technologies will fail to improve lives, report warns

Universities warn they may be unable to meet staffing and facilities costs alone

Challenge means that institution’s entry into teaching excellence framework based on 2009 report

Current head of Worcestershire County Council will succeed Mary Curnock Cook

Next Universities Australia chair sees big role for universities in shift to post-industrial society

New data allow greater scrutiny of student retention in England’s ‘challenger’ institutions

Amendment to HE Bill to require hosting of pro-Leave speakers and cultural events on campus

Analysis of more than 700,000 biomedical texts reveals growing use of jargon

Transparency ‘crucial’ to the introduction of new metrics in Continent’s research system

Teenagers who received personalised letters more likely to get into Russell Group institutions

Issuing press releases without allowing access to the original research criticised by UK politicians

Our new rankings focus on what institutions offer students

Three-quarters of respondents are dissatisfied with the people running their institutions

All three of England’s for-profit universities owned in Netherlands

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

The eminent philosopher talks of academics’ vanity, the place of philosophy in a ‘post-truth’ world and her reservations about the TEF

A round-up of academics awarded research council funding

George Soros-funded institution could be ‘first victim’ of increasingly illiberal world order, observers say

Union calls for universities to remove barriers to peaceful protest

Code of conduct frames non-publication of unexpected results as an issue of research integrity

Sociologists make the case for observational drawing to be part of the research process

Two-thirds of funding over past three years went to just 20 institutions 

Civil servant status and national pay scales mean senior academics earn less than peers elsewhere

Analysis of co-authored journal papers details partnerships beyond EU

The top 10 institutions for researching planets outside our solar system

Andrew Potter's article lambasting Quebec's 'social malaise' was heavily criticised

Advocates argue that universities should be prepared to ditch subscriptions altogether

Study finds classes can improve students’ chances of getting a graduate job by 40 per cent

Outgoing president says the arts are more important than ever in these troubled times