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Long-serving David Blaney reaches ‘voluntary exit agreement’ as Welsh regulation transfers to Commission for Tertiary Education and Research

Australian universities say remit of proposed watchdog needs ‘detailed examination’

Minister responsible for higher education tells European universities to stop recruiting its best minds

Pooling academic resources vital to countering ‘market failures’ in pharmaceutical industry, says Covid Moonshot pioneer John Chodera

Barely half of postgraduate researchers in the UK and Australia feel like they are part of a community of postgraduate researchers, according to major survey

Court case raises conflict between academic freedom and universities’ duty of care, says barrister

UK ‘needs more good post-secondary education’ but via ‘diversified’ routes, and nations might have ‘limit’ on need for university expansion, says influential expert

Scientific writing should avoid use of terms like ‘cuckold’, says paper finding antifeminist online forums often draw on ‘reputable research’

Strathclyde principal flags growing realisation that greater national coordination is needed between universities and businesses

Quality and resourcing also front of mind for academic heading first comprehensive education evaluation in decades

Top-ranked institutions’ contribution to equity should go further than ‘picking the top 10 students from every school’, experts say

Record walkout at top public US system won graduate students a new contract, but ambiguous details have left them struggling with lower-than-expected pay

As seven-year case against South Korean professor Park Yu-ha concludes, academics say the deep political divisions that lay behind it are not going away any time soon

Institutions without ratings at a disadvantage during crucial recruitment period as many wrongly assume appeals are due to their being designated ‘requires improvement’

Guidelines produced by Oxford vice-chancellor and venture capitalist designed to drive greater private investment in research start-ups

Funding and focus on job training blamed as five major European languages lose around a fifth of their enrolment in five years

Almost 700 scholars signed an open letter protesting Armin Falk’s appointment to the Institute of Labor Economics, referencing sexual misconduct allegations

Curricula should be adapted to suit local skills needs, Edinburgh conference hears

Union members declare no confidence in vice-chancellor over proposed plan that would see closure of departments

Fearing pressure on the humanities, professor runs the numbers and sees his elite institution in danger of falling short

Auckland failed to give public commentary the level of occupational protection that would be mandatory in the laboratory, says colleague of Siouxsie Wiles

Pledge to rebalance from ‘poor-quality degrees’ to apprenticeships seen as likely rhetoric only, but there are hopes for international student reset

Lack of clear guidelines may put instructors on ‘defensive’ over students’ use of ChatGPT, researchers say

Figures show that 7.5 per cent of state school pupils in one London borough got into Oxford or Cambridge last year – up from just 1 per cent five years before

More rigorous checking targets hyper-authorship, excessive self-citation and unusual patterns of group citation activity

More probes expected after flood of complaints over demonstrations tied to Israel-Gaza conflict

‘Core recruitment practices’ without quotas reduced gender parity timeline from 60 years to five

Country must address socio-economic and regional inequalities, UN committee advises

Amid heavy attention on certificates and scepticism toward traditional higher education, Georgetown jobs projection shows rising value of four-year graduates

University says current cohorts will be the last, blaming declining student numbers

Proposed threshold fails to take account of funding challenges facing universities, sector groups say

Education a better approach than ‘political censorship’, universities told

Ministers’ communications with their scientific advisers have been revealed, shining a light on how such relationships work, but will wide-ranging exercise change how research informs policy in the future?

‘As a female scholar, that is doubly insulting to me, to be reduced to being someone’s wife,’ says researcher barred from National University of Singapore

Prestigious publishing group will allow authors to incorporate AI-written text and figures into papers if technology use is acknowledged and explained

Twenty-two institutions win awards for innovation and excellence in teaching and research

Charlotte Deane will return to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council after serving as deputy chair throughout the pandemic

College sector leader urges universities to realise that without unified tertiary model ‘we are not going to win any more money’

Institution blames inflation and rising pay and pension contributions

Newly appointed trustees of small liberal arts college want to revitalise facilities with funding request worth $571,000 per student

Overseas universities could profit from ‘escape route’ role, as China’s women resist political pressure to produce the next generation

Government signals review of older US tie-ups and appetite for more Brazilian students, as leading rector says institutions do not have to build their strategies on English-language tuition

Higher study can mean little to one’s pay packet and can in some cases reduce it, says research that raises questions about Universities Accord’s expansionary vision

Home Office list of top-ranked universities giving graduates visa eligibility adds two Chinese institutions, but stretching to India ‘would boost UK employers’

Zaki Nusseibeh, chancellor of United Arab Emirates University, says universities must evolve with the world to take advantage of the green transition

Difficulties in access to online and physical collections at UK’s national library persist following ransomware incident

Leftist faculty and high overseas enrolments also targeted in congressional hearing

Institutions ‘must do more’ to ensure safety of students on their campuses and see that learners know the repercussions of actions abroad, says scholar

As country proposes tough new sanctions for sharing regulated technologies, except with the UK and US, sceptic asks whether nuclear submarine pact is worth the trouble

After historically black institutions spend years seeking funding worthy of R1 status, main higher education grouping agrees to loosen the terms of inclusion

As governance report castigates his successor, former Cape Town vice-chancellor says he is not surprised by findings but that anyone would have struggled to lead Africa’s most highly ranked university after tumults of preceding years

Ten winners include universities from six different countries or territories

University investigates Berislav Zlokovic after his lab members describe image and notebook manipulation, and warn of danger to stroke patients from resulting medical trial

English regulator publishes latest report in series of government-initiated investigations

Ex-Universities UK president described as ‘towering figure in higher education’

Conference attendees discuss how to respond to the ‘600-pound gorilla in the room’ on university teaching

Former city minister switches briefs following resignation of George Freeman

Shitij Kapur fears country’s world-leading universities face ‘triangle of sadness’ as problems with student debt, university finances and staff discontent pile up

With one dispute won but another floundering, some believe lack of strikes could actually benefit UK’s main academic union in latest talks with employers, but others are preparing to try to unseat the general secretary in an election that promises to be a ‘referendum on last five years’

Linguistic fluency ‘seldom achieved’ and peripheral to ‘the jobs of today and the future’, Australian university claims