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Snap adoption of new teaching model, after half a century of gestation, shows that universities can get things done quickly

Amid a still-evolving patchwork of laws and interpretations after Supreme Court ruling, campuses are taking risks and pushing boundaries

Total number of applications to study for a degree in UK down by 2.3 per cent at January deadline

Minister calls statutory tort an essential step to ‘cultural transformation’

Academic emphasises need for transparency as institutions forced into U-turns on restrictions

Warning of ‘stranded funding’ as bureaucrats bend the rules of a programme with too many goals

Once the largest US online university, for-profit has been arguing without luck that it’s a last best chance to enter fast-growing world of adult training

Institution famed for its brutalist campus has paid price for bad luck and bad decisions, staff say

Universities join rescue mission after 7.8 magnitude tremor strikes near Gaziantep

Vice-chancellors say 60 research projects will come to an end this year without bridging funding

Prime minister shakes up structures within government as well as ministerial team

Country should strive to be more than a student hub, says second-term minister

Death of bodyguard won’t deter Fort Hare leader Sakhela Buhlungu from combating ‘cancer’ of graft gripping the South African sector

NSF Regional Innovation Engines scheme is place-based push to secure US strength in key technologies

European Commission warns of further legal action after Italian universities refuse to offer back pay to unjustly treated foreign lecturers

US Supreme Court widely expected to rule against Harvard and UNC in landmark cases, leading many institutions to start the process for considering what happens next

UK higher education admissions service moves to put vocational routes into careers on an ‘equal footing’ with traditional options

US is the ‘elephant in the room’ in a policy that seeks to attract overseas talent and money, says academic

Edtech giants and plucky start-ups are vying to create potentially lucrative tools to combat the use of AI in assessments, but will they cause more problems than they solve?

Most students got a higher-class degree at every major institution in 2021-22, data show

Australia, New Zealand and Canada have some of the least diverse international student populations, data show

Analysis of the database suggests UK universities take greater equity in spin-outs than others in Europe

Recently launched provider spends big in attempt to drive ‘exponential growth’ in student numbers

Leading institutions switching from exams to interviews for admission, but students from many universities are excluded from this route

Westphalian Wilhelms University Münster set to become the University of Münster

Abuses at small private colleges seen as suggesting a nation overlooking immigration rules as it aggressively pursues foreign tuition dollars

Jointly run open access publisher will offer lower cost route for Scottish researchers seeking to comply with new UKRI rules on monographs

Female academics are more likely to be employed on zero-hours contracts than male colleagues

NaUKMA head defends dropping ‘language of aggressor’, despite concerns over freedom of expression

Westminster government introduces legislation aimed at making module financing fairer to encourage more flexible learning

Enrolment declines also shrink, but inflation and historical patterns cited as reasons for sector to expect danger may be lurking

College Board promises essential new student exposure to black history, while battling accusations it allowed key politically motivated omissions

University leaders should not outlive their ‘shelf life’, suggests Nobel laureate vice-chancellor

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

Graduate student workers energised after record walkout, though meaningful improvements remain a long slog for majority still in economically precarious contingent teaching

UK sector retains positive reputation among general public as a whole, but authors of report caution over increasingly negative views among parts of population

Disadvantaged students are disproportionately affected when they relinquish paid work to attend mandatory placements, lobby group argues

Leading scientists ‘appalled’ to find sham papers have been attributed to them say case against UK-registered publishers is overdue

Magical literature professor reflects on the influence of witch trials on contemporary US politics, the Harry Potter novels and dealing with requests for exorcisms

Even institutions that have been feeling the financial pinch can better invest in their employees by rethinking their priorities, say striking workers

Australian regulator advises against shortcuts, such as recruiting moonlighting big hitters, as universities confront new research quality benchmarks

Blockbuster payout from landmark Oxford-AstraZeneca jab likely to highlight commercial potential of university-led innovation

Corvinus head says Brussels is undermining European integration through exchange, as it has by pushing away the UK and Switzerland

Faculty and presidents fight back as conservative lawmakers argue – without evidence – that weapons increase safety

Ireland was only EU nation to see a rise in the number of students in the UK

Ten groups of universities and ministries will explore whether the EU could and should label joint degrees and create a new legal status for cross-border institutions

Another 18 days of strikes to hit universities across the country in February and March, with UCU promising ‘most disruptive action ever’

Student organisations say universities are failing to stop ‘growing harassment’ directed at Ukrainian communities

Human rights expert heads back to UK from New Zealand, after previously holding Bristol deanship

Special circumstances observed in snap reversal of Beijing’s stance on distance learning

Face-to-face classes suspended yet again as downpours dampen return to normality

Toby Young sees ‘campaign’ for Nick Hillman to land job being waged by Lord Willetts, whose rebellion on tort may be fought in Commons

Cardiff University academic Flint Dibble says the popularity of Netflix show Ancient Apocalypse means non-engagement is no longer possible

With AAU providing teamwork and guidance, leading subset of black-serving US institutions hopes that banding together will help overcome decades of public neglect

Machine learning study finds university prestige and citations have no association with replicability, but author experience is key

Departments asked to set out positions on visas, with those resisting restrictions on post-study work options said to include Treasury

Governor encounters some faculty and student pushback to his campaign of restrictions on curriculum and personal rights, but presidents and many academics cower in fear

The decision to allow organised luck back into student selection sits awkwardly between politics and science

Beijing’s abolition of Covid-era concession expected to spur international enrolments while generating logistical migraines

Black academic suing former institution after it alleged he had advocated for ‘killing white people’