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Researchers analysed data from 45 million papers and 4 million patents over six decades, finding less disruption and more consolidation

Screenings in Nottingham and Edinburgh cancelled but academics claim accusations of transphobia are ‘absurd’

Living allowances become key part of the recruitment pitch, as universities battle for research students and students wrestle with inflation

Provider with low graduation rates due to admissions policies struggling to meet Office for Students benchmark

Major equity win at elite campus held out as hopeful model for all of higher education, yet social scientist also takes heed of the forces that favour backsliding

New government policy to limit academic brain drain from struggling regions seen as unlikely to succeed in face of powerful trends

With most major players making redundancies and tightening their belts, edtech has faced a difficult year, but could moves into career development save the industry?

Tymofiy Mylovanov has found fame, funding and support for students via his day-in-the-life tweets

Students, universities, investors and governments grapple for answers as Australian housing costs skyrocket and availability plummets

Universities and regions must decide whether to step in and meet rising demand for more generous scholarship grants

Academics Peter Mathieson and Vernon Bogdanor among those knighted for services to their disciplines or the sector

Readers show a taste for the UK’s REF as normality returns after pandemic

Interim policy that allows students with overseas offers to study domestically instead may turn long term

Returning home to New York, John King envisions a future of top rankings on faculty, employment and equity – while promising his own tactical recalibration

Fadlo Khuri, president of the American University of Beirut, explains how his institution has coped with explosions, currency crises and Covid

Government and institutions are aligned when it comes to recruiting genuine students, despite alleged visa abuse becoming a right-wing hobby horse

Move to shrink governing body and reduce internal representation seen as rebuke for president Rocky Tuan

Cardiff University’s Colin Riordan says disappointing proposed budget for Welsh universities will worsen financial pressures caused by inflation

Staff will need express permission to fly less than 700km, but subsidies for higher train fees are also being scrapped

Financially troubled University of the South Pacific was left with £29 million black hole when leadership fell out with biggest member state

Financial statements, when eventually published, revealed ‘material uncertainty’ over institution’s ability to keep running and £17 million deficit 

Former education secretary joined by 14 vice-chancellors in warning Westminster government against restricting overseas enrolment to ‘elite’ universities only

Fraud and fabrication are not rarities, suggests Australian survey of early career scholars

China gains influence over neighbour as impact of Western boycotts already visible in paper co-authorship

Growth of chapters seen in the 1990s has tailed off, and they are increasingly pushed towards the back

Expert in online education long before it became fashionable discusses what can be learned from the gaming industry, common mistakes innovators make and why her own undergraduate experience was an unhappy one

Dame Julie Lydon joined at Commission for Tertiary Education and Research by former Research England chief David Sweeney

European Commission hails first association of a highly industrialised country outside of Europe

Tweaks to assessment processes are designed to broaden assessment and mollify disciplines that felt disadvantaged

Decision ‘is in clear violation of Afghanistan’s obligations under international law’, says UN high commissioner for human rights

Systems with national hiring and promotion systems such as Italy, Poland and Spain may struggle the most with European agenda

Poorly understood clause in new Australian act may oblige universities to reach terms with representatives, just as they develop a taste for dealing directly with staff

Professor known for statements widely perceived as racist has had low class sign-ups for several years, suggesting campus verdict ahead of formal sanction review

Embattled human rights professor faced abuse and threats online after DUP leader questioned latest report

In handling widespread and complicated problems for academia, especially after Covid, Ivy League institution moves from denial to attempts at finding compromise

Bestselling Albanian author Lea Ypi among those prevented from seeing family members because of Home Office decisions

Long-running divisions brought back to the fore at crucial period in UK pay negotiations

New chair of Commons education committee ‘concerned’ by moves to limit study visas

Stopgap solution will run out in April, when symbolic deadline for resolving a wider EU-UK dispute over Northern Ireland will present itself

Agreement on pay hikes and better benefits for graduate student instructors would end biggest-ever job action in US higher education, although many workers dissent

Government tipped to win battle with peers who removed statutory tort and are ‘unwilling to compromise’

Times Higher Education journalists name the academics and administrators at the heart of the sector’s biggest debates over the past 12 months

AI becoming smarter and more accessible should be viewed not only as a cheating risk, say experts

Scholars split on whether reforms – part of a wider relaxation of rules on doctorates – will tackle research fraud or whether they aim at the wrong target

Rather than focusing on students’ plans after they graduate, Canberra should assure itself of their commitment to study

Former Reed president hopes other universities will challenge influential league table

Broader coalition arrives without answers on a missing DKr300 million for humanities and social sciences, as universities prepare to debate lifelong learning reforms with a “gun pointed at us”

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting attacks cap on medical school places that has led to institutions catering solely to students from overseas 

House of Lords Science and Technology Committee also criticises ‘unjustifiably high’ visa costs 

With fervent political support and promises of substantial funding, on-again off-again amalgamation now appears viable

Shadow health secretary backing a Policy Exchange blueprint for growing doctor numbers, including the creation of up to 15 new medical schools

Bizarre phenomena on Chinese university campuses go beyond manifestations of student boredom, according to academics

Daughter of Haitian immigrants, social scientist serving as dean of arts and sciences promises to bring new commitment to interdisciplinary achievement

University reaffirms ‘commitment to freedom of expression and academic freedom’ following student protests and UCU’s call to cancel event

Incident is ‘shameful and disappointing’ and ‘undermines’ inclusivity on campus, says academic

Westminster government signals it will seek to reinstate ‘statutory tort’ removed by peers

Regulator tells universities free speech codes should cover teaching and academics will be polled, bringing ‘independence’ rebuke

Year after MIT and Harvard’s abandonment of non-profit online course platform, universities slow in finding promised new beneficial mission, while for-profit buyer sheds staff and loses market value

Outgoing president of LA campus ties success to institution’s longstanding diverse culture, even as he leaves under accusations of failing to protect it

Australian universities ‘have work to do’ to recover international student enrolments