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

‘Unclear’ status of main UK science funder has led to slow decision-making, inefficiency and limited cross-disciplinary research, finds report

Independent quality body steps back from providing assessments for OfS due to non-compliance with European standards

Clash over officials’ salaries occurs against a backdrop of resentment over union leadership’s pandemic tactics

Successful replication efforts heavily tied to whether original research team allowed a role, finds study of contentious psychology field

Survey finds two-thirds of students go without ‘basics’ and renters pass 56 per cent of their meagre incomes to landlords

Administrators are noting who is signing petitions critical of government or speaking out publicly, lecturers say

Ilan Gur and Matt Clifford will lead UK’s new ‘high risk, high reward’ scientific research agency

Agents report surge in appetite, suggesting students have short memories

Long-term settlement for Francis Crick Institute announced by PM ‘maintains current levels of activity’

Institutions in the European countries face ‘contamination’ as governments group them with more regulated parts of the education system

Clearer separation between peer-reviewed and corporate work would help protect academic integrity, expert says

Decades or centuries needed if progress continues at its current pace, consultancy firm concludes

Safety concerns lead top research university to cancel lecture on sex and gender, drawing criticism from research minister

Empty podiums, low engagement from speakers and higher costs have led events large and small to rethink combining online and physical gatherings

Surprise insolvency has brought campus resignations and nationwide labour stress

New cheating figures highlight need for new solutions as ‘under-pressure’ students find new ways to access banned websites

Australian book weighs the ethics of evolving research techniques, including the downsides of drones and selfies with animals

Separate breaches in one week trigger concerns over lack of awareness in the sector

Further strikes now more likely as formal dispute process ends without resolution

CUHK centre in Shanghai seen as controversial by some, inevitable by others

While sector welcomes significant funding injection, future shape of national centre is clouded, as is much of its past efforts

The London School of Economics political theorist reflects on why her childhood memoir Free has been embraced by readers across the world

Number of students expected to start courses in UK higher education hits all-time high, after 44 per cent of all 18-year-olds applied

Companies built on university-based research twice as likely to succeed if they receive Innovate UK backing, study suggests

Research England unveils substantial uplifts for both quality-related research funding and knowledge exchange activities

Data from seven years’ worth of Horizon 2020 grants shows you ‘don't need to tell researchers what to do’, ERC president says

Impact of condition on academics poses several difficult challenges for higher education institutions

English universities can protect institutional autonomy from interventionist regulators by equipping boards with skills, says Hepi policy note

Rejections up, but data show universities ‘remain places where debate and the sharing of ideas can thrive’, says OfS

Wage disagreements with language institute and cleaning staff lead lecturers and students to express dismay about treatment of employees

Leading US public institution, six months after firing Schlissel over affair claims, gets top academic voice on equity from UBC

With SAT and ACT already losing acceptance because of inequities, GAO details cost-related struggle of students to gain needed accommodations

A third say cheating should be seen as only mildly wrong or not wrong at all

Proposals to cut places and dropout by a third aim to stem waste and attract talent from abroad

MP given downgraded brief after courting controversy with middle finger gesture

Pakistan, Nepal, Kenya, Ghana and three Indian states named as sources of ‘emerging integrity issues’

Despite holding its own at Peking University, Yuanpei College still encounters resistance to its approach, professor says

Rising star of contest to be next PM signals intention to clamp down on ‘low quality degrees’ and universities that ‘indoctrinate social attitudes’

Academics’ pension fund adds famous holiday camps to growing portfolio of assets as it seeks to shore up finances post-pandemic

Rebecca Blank, who was until recently head of Wisconsin’s flagship campus, to return to state to fight aggressive form of disease

After 80 per cent gain in youth voting for last midterm congressional election cycle, Supreme Court decision seen as driving interest even higher

Inaugural intake of students expected to arrive in Birmingham in autumn 2023, but funding and governance still to be determined

Planned reductions to Foreign Ministry budget would hurt institutional cooperation and leave researchers in the lurch, DAAD exchange service says

British Academy chief Julia Black says Treasury must urgently clarify stance on Horizon Europe and long-term backing for UK science

University sector awaits political leadership as key posts lie vacant

Survey results ‘show significant differences’ in performance of major student destination countries amid high demand for student visas

‘Anyone who thinks the university is in good shape is deluded,’ says former Morgan Stanley executive in resignation letter

Case of Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ highlights tensions between justice, science and courts’ need to distinguish between world experts and ‘proven performers’

Male students at university in Iceland tended to rate their female teachers lower than male counterparts in both teaching and course organisation

Royal Netherlands Academy says extra funding and time cannot ‘truly compensate’ those who began their research careers in lockdown

Science sector ‘needs ministerial leadership’, says MP who resigned barely 24 hours earlier

Principal says institution not able to ‘take new students onto programmes where staff refuse to deliver the promised education’

Scale of redundancies and resignations announced by Wolverhampton far surpasses figure previously expected

Professors sanctioned for vaccine discussions as politicians seen gearing up for US-style assault on academic rights

Coursera co-founder warns that faculty are ‘burning the candle at multiple ends’

Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania hold up state’s budget as part of demand that university gets no money if valued research involving aborted tissue persists

Vivienne Stern tells Australian conference that universities should make contingency preparations for collapse in relations

Departure of prime minister may allow for a rethink on Horizon Europe association, but sector could face months of damaging policy stasis, say experts

Boris Johnson appoints Cabinet to see out remainder of his premiership