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THE’s second global work-life balance survey finds although flexible working has brought benefits, long hours remain a ‘chronic’ problem

New Australian arrangement hailed as long overdue by many, but critics warn of unintended consequences

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

Report follows university governance scandals such as that triggering exit of ex-De Montfort v-c Dominic Shellard

Cash-strapped institutions closing early for Christmas and moving teaching online, but face backlash from policymakers and students

One-off payments to those in need also among multimillion-pound package of support

Ministerial reshuffle nears completion as faces new and old take up key positions in business and education departments

Berkeley among institutions admitting it’s overwhelmed by freshers struggling in classes and low on resilience

Point-in-time study quantifies pandemic’s differential impacts on academics with children – particularly mothers

Always left holding the wrong end of the stick, independent institutions hope for a ‘reset’ from the misleadingly named universities accord

Long-serving medieval historian Philip Morgan evicted from office after refusing to show his passport for ‘right-to-work’ check

Pause of Norway’s prestigious investigator-led grants comes as EU alternatives also face the chopping block

Around 70,000 members at 150 UK universities set to walk out in disputes over pay, working conditions and pensions

Analytics giant denies accusations it stole data but ends development of MetaDoor platform in settlement with WorldCat

Former education committee chair ‘appears to have interest in detail of policy’ and sees employability as purpose of university

Outpost for up to 5,000 students will be part of £8 billion Brent Cross Town development

Responding to Laurentian crisis, proposal moving through federal Senate would bar public universities from creditor protection, but with only a promise of unspecified alternatives

Twitter trolls and polarised debate on Covid have caused almost one in four academics to scale back public engagement, says Elsevier study

Go8 questions outsiders’ commitment to research, after advisory body raises doubts over education’s contribution to productivity

Other suggestions to ease military skill shortages include funding future reservists’ studies and ‘opening up’ to international students

Iain Mansfield aims to work on ‘breaking the impasse’ on funding in new thinktank role and denies being ‘culture warrior’

Business education should engage more with contemporary realities, which means abandoning things that can be learned for free elsewhere, according to Lord Hastings

Permanent expansion of Covid-era waiver on interest payments cheered by student activists but lamented by conservatives as wasteful and by progressives as missed opportunity

First results of landmark survey of 42,186 employees and students released

International students are ‘part of the solution, and not the problem’, says ex-minister on launch of new commission

A sunny outlook on student enrolments is marred by the persistent lack of money for research in the field, says association chair

While remote delivery remains popular with many international students, authorities hose down prospects of fully online degrees

New subject guidance mandates ‘narrowly skewed perspective on the history of mathematics’, leading academics claim

While India’s prestigious IITs flex fundraising muscle, others in sector are ‘left in the lurch’

Populist right-wing leader leaves office with public universities facing bankruptcy and country polarised

Student union demands overhaul as post-Covid cost pressures exacerbate student poverty

Concerns over more rigid control of universities and fear of isolationist thinking causing ‘intellectual impoverishment’ for East and West

Scholar warns that growing influence of ideology over education could be ‘the most dangerous thing’ happening in modern-day Russia

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development calls for a rethink to skills policy, including apprenticeships, following new findings on graduate employment

Business secretary hails research as ‘critical way to turbocharge Britain’s growth’, in Sunak administration’s first major move on science

Decade-old policy has dramatically changed the make-up of institutions, but critics claim it is unfair and unconstitutional

Higher education committee says walkouts should be followed by marking boycott and ‘escalation’ of action if settlement cannot be reached on pay and pensions

Chief higher education lobby group finds decline in share of institutions boosting their overseas outreach, but takes comfort in unexpected areas of growth during the pandemic

Policymakers will need to work out exactly what ‘equity’ means before entrenching it in new funding arrangements

Embattled university says nine sitting presidents of top-tier research institutions sought top Florida job – but only if they could be assured of sole finalist status

Higher education settings found to be worse than schools and workplaces for accent-based discrimination

Hepi report advocates creation of new prizes and fellowships to recognise research leadership

Seeing racial inequities in system of Republican-controlled legislature appointing campus trustees, state’s Democratic leader sets up commission to press reforms

London’s ‘American’ university says move will offer ‘more transparency and greater value for money’

Şebnem Korur Fincancı was charged with spreading terrorist propaganda after calling for inquest into army’s alleged use of chemical weapons in Syria

Companies reported to have suspended orders from university due to delay in paying invoices

Nearly two dozen British institutions now accept a test that allows Chinese high schoolers taking domestic curriculum to apply to universities abroad

A glorious history of anti-fascist protest means anarchy is tolerated on Greek campuses, but some are ready for the repeal of academic asylum to finally be enforced

Earlier engagement with African research partners will lead to improved outcomes and institutional relations, says global health expert Margaret Gyapong

‘Significant breaches’ in student body’s code of conduct identified by independent inquiry

Revolution ‘in the making’ as gender barriers torn down in campus cafeterias and students continue to march

Paper by Times Higher Education explores partnerships and collaboration in relation to Sustainable Development Goals

Jo Grady sets out six-month-long strategy of ‘phased escalation’ after securing historic mandate for further action

Rapidly growing provider of code-based data analysis for UK universities was set up by ex-Ucas executives Mark Corver and Andrew Hargreaves

Data theft from health insurance giant stokes fears that students could be targeted by hackers or their impersonators

Ahead of ruling on Harvard and North Carolina cases, conservative majority on nation’s top court makes clear it leans towards ending predecessors’ 2003 approval of racial preferences in college admissions

‘Dual enrolments’ jump 11 per cent in a year in what colleges hope is a move that will encourage low-income students to consider higher education

Directive for nine university administrators to resign ‘unprecedented’ in scale, according to researchers

Specialist provider of evening higher education classes planning sweeping cuts to departments, union claims

Interdisciplinary degrees focused on sustainability challenges would excite undergraduates more than discipline-led courses, says KAUST president