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Pregnant researchers and new parents describe how they were hindered by inflexible interview process

Other universities could follow Trinity and announce action, says union president

George Freeman says he could not cope with doubling of monthly bill on annual salary of £118,000

Plans to charge overseas students ‘return deposit’ must be tossed out, Constitutional Council rules

Report in The Sunday Times conflated international foundation years with full degrees, say Russell Group and Universities UK

Palestinian scholars mourn ‘deliberate targeting’ of higher education but pledge to rebuild once war is over

‘Heightened’ crackdown on academic freedom expected as party committees merge with presidents’ offices on leading campuses

Scholar found to have faced ‘hostile environment’ due to gender-critical views warns ruling has implications for all universities, but fears more troubling cases to come

Pressure to publish seen as ‘contributing factor’ to recent suicides, as Madras faces backlash on doctoral monitoring

Evolving norms, expectations and laws usher both risk and opportunity for universities, according to blind law scholar

Vice-chancellor announces ‘major independent review’ after acknowledging ‘in several areas we fell very short’

European University Association says being forced to disclose international funding could lead to institutions being wrongly ‘suspected of representing foreign interests’

Dismissal over workload dispute ‘merely the latest ploy’ in Australian university’s long-running campaign to oust ‘conservative academic’

SET University president Iryna Volnytska discusses the challenges of building a new institution in wartime

Provinces promise action against private operators, but universities fear Trudeau is going too far, too fast, without consulting sector

Partnership with Institute for Replication will support reproduction and replication attempts tied to papers published from 2023 onwards

University wants to drop ‘Central’ and become ‘The University of Lancashire’, as existing location description has ‘little or no current relevance or meaning’

Experts describe drop as disappointing but caution that a number of statistical reasons could be behind the decrease

Head of UK Research and Innovation announces she will not seek to stay in office beyond next year

Eighty finalists from 17 countries and territories in the running across 10 categories, as prestigious awards enter sixth year

In Vermont, a flagship for the first time counts more freshmen from a neighbouring state than from its own population

It might sound ‘wishy-washy’ but joyfulness can succeed where KPIs fail in supporting the institutional mission, new book argues

A change in atmosphere has encouraged academics to return to the country where they were once maligned, but funding pressures and issues with polarisation continue

Fund of £20 million to support early- and mid-career researchers from black, Bangladeshi and Pakistani backgrounds

OIA caseload continues to rise despite end of pandemic restrictions and fallout from marking boycott yet to hit

Brown, Columbia and Yale have agreed to pay eight-figure sums to see off claims that they colluded to hold down financial aid

European Commission stresses that ‘with academic freedom comes academic responsibility’, aiming to ‘de-risk, not to de-couple’ scientific collaboration

University hopes to build ‘culture of college-going’ with early offers to local high schoolers

Next EU framework programme should also deliver significant uplift in ERC spending, says funder

Another alarm on university finances as Russell Group institution sees international student numbers fall by 16 per cent

Minister and NSFAS chair deny corruption claims, as fund struggles to get payments to students on time

The rise of open-access journals in response to initiatives such as Plan S has tightened the grip of big publishers on the scholarly publishing market, analysis claims

Kiwis dodge debt overseas, as student loan costs spiral for individuals and government alike

The tentative agreement includes a retroactive 5 per cent salary increase for all faculty at the largest public university in the US, and potentially another in July

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne says quality of education under pressure due to rapid enrolment growth

OfS publishes latest minister-ordered business and management course investigations, finding ‘concerns’ at Bucks New and Wolverhampton

As countries that are home to around half of the world’s population go to the polls, Times Higher Education journalists consider what role higher education will play in the campaigns, and how it might be reshaped by the results

Interviews with council members suggest ‘business realists’ dominate and chairs are ‘too matey with senior management’, says CDBU report

Tribunal rules criminologist Jo Phoenix was forced out of institution, which was ‘fearful’ about being seen to support gender-critical beliefs

Sandra Borch apologises for making ‘big mistake’ while completing her master’s thesis

Trudeau administration acts after long warning that it won’t tolerate abuses by private campuses and resulting housing shortages

Largest US public university system, saying it can’t afford union demands, plans to keep classes open during walkout

‘I would not accept his evidence as sufficient to establish any scientific proposition at all,’ says ruling

Union members voting on who should be next general secretary, with incumbent under pressure from all sides 

Difficulties experienced during OfS short-course trial show universities will have to work far harder to attract students, say sector leaders

Jamus Jerome Lim, who raised issue in Singaporean parliament, says diverse ideas must be ‘allowed to circulate and be subject to debate’

Bad debt provision pushes London university into deficit and affects banking covenant

Craig Mahoney’s remuneration, including £340,000 compensation for loss of office, equivalent to about £4,500 a day

Report authors warn focus on sciences risks making UK research sector ‘lopsided’

President of Lincoln University in Missouri voluntarily agrees to take paid administrative leave following death of Antoinette Candia-Bailey

Campuses in urban areas of Ontario, British Columbia and Nova Scotia may be first to face federal cap on education visas

Almost no leaders in THE survey expect government to support a university in serious trouble, as domestic and international funding woes leave one v-c fearing ministers ‘want to drive us out of business’

Research quality more evenly spread than funding and ‘toxic cultural bias’ could be behind disparities, says geographical analysis for Hepi

Good for the goose but not the gander, after college’s university-standard performance failed to earn it sub-university branding

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

University courses franchised to colleges accounted for 53 per cent of £4.1 million of fraud detected by SLC last year, says public spending watchdog

Analysis of Ucas figures reveals which universities saw the largest falls in undergraduate recruitment

The senior lecturer in financial risk management discusses his academic career around the world, his admiration for Galileo and how a traditional game inspired his love of mathematics

German Academic Exchange Service advocates continued engagement, but on universities’ own terms

Viacheslav Morozov of the University of Tartu was detained earlier this month