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Academics claim Lord Wharton’s appearance at CPAC Hungary is incompatible with his role at top of English regulator

Aims to move away from metrics-based evaluations floundering, study finds

Experts debate whether erosion of dominance will prompt redrawing of funding criteria

Universities seek to win over staff with bonuses and consider subcontracting assessment

Second draft promises to increase spending and tackle casualisation, but government remains reluctant to loosen reins on sector frustrated by red tape

Labor may prosecute a big agenda in higher education despite its ‘small target’ campaign

Some students have not been able to leave country for more than two years, including long confinements on campus

Industrial action will no longer take place at several campuses over the summer

UCU ramps up criticism after announcements on cost-cutting programmes

James Wilsdon says he is open-minded about including more metrics in future research assessments

Alberta’s governing United Conservative Party pursues a residency requirement for rural Athabasca University, raising fears of lost talent

THE research highlights that over-representation of women in some STEM fields and under-representation of men in care-oriented disciplines are often overlooked in gender equality debates

Student protests ‘historically have ominous portents’ for country, scholar warns

Warwick statistician drops employment tribunal case without settlement

Arts and humanities programmes will be closed at Roehampton and Wolverhampton, with De Montfort also cutting jobs

Boost to teaching subsidies will not keep pace with inflation, critics warn

Battling for truth in opaque organisations? It’s enough to blow your mind, researchers say

As Biden nears issuing new regulations for adjudicating abuse complaints, nation’s top court considers case that could bring new conservative legal standard

Scholar who fled to Iran after torture says the experience cemented his resolve to teach human rights

War’s destruction is a chance for Ukraine to create a better higher education system, but security and funding will test rebuilders

Proposed changes risk further eroding support funding for discovery research without achieving their core objectives

India and Vietnam expected to keep up momentum, compensating for decline of degree seekers from China

PhD student says her legal defeat raises important questions about duty of care owed to students who face harassment

Westminster government says it does not want to lend money to inmates ‘who have no prospect of paying it back’

Jane Hutton tells tribunal that months of her concerns being rebuffed forced her to become a whistleblower and disclose information to outside sources

New strategy looks outward as well as inward, as government vows to ‘come back even stronger than before’

Review to revisit conclusions of 2015’s The Metric Tide

Jeff Grabill says lifelong learning will bring thousands more students to higher education, and universities must be honest about what they can expect

Surging international student numbers and regional economic demand seen as twin drivers

Campaign promises reflect electoral rather than sectoral priorities

EU-sponsored groupings need to win friends and influence national deregulation to realise their ambitions, experts say

UK’s national student union left out in the cold over antisemitism allegations

Colleges are being squeezed in many of the same ways that American households are

Institutions appear unaware of severity of problem due to paucity of survey data and lack of on-campus advisory efforts, UCLA researchers find

Neuroscientist’s unrivalled track record from Oxford comprehensive to college head stands her in good stead to be vice-chancellor of world’s most highly ranked university

Near-£16,000 bill for researcher and their family to relocate is among the highest in the world and could endanger science investment target, says UUK

Russell Group head says window for association is ‘closing fast’ as political row rolls on

Disadvantaged families have upbeat expectations for their offspring but underestimate the barriers, study suggests

Policies to attract foreign students to Australia’s regional areas are not changing their instinctive preference for the cities, analysis suggests

Law experts call for broader effort to improve authors’ copyright interests

Research minister shocks sector with purge at top of supposedly profligate funder

Cancellation of international exams and pronouncements on rankings trigger debate

Government’s major research funders set hard deadline of 2029 for fair distribution of major federal science grant money and see gender exclusion as smart pathway

Corruption only likely to get worse as higher education sector becomes more stratified, say scholars

The Cambridge-based US philosopher explains how his father’s vexed relationship with Catholicism led him to philosophy and why the student idealism he witnessed in West Germany in 1968 caused him to leave America

Six in 10 firsts awarded in England last year would get lower classification under historic marking standards, claims Office for Students

REF supremo David Sweeney and Manchester research lead Colette Fagan hit back at criticisms of measuring societal and economic contributions

University of Oxford leads education subject table based on GPA

The University of Cambridge claims top spot, with the London School of Economics dropping to fourth

University of Reading leads archaeology unit of assessment table based on GPA

London School of Economics tops economics and econometrics subject table based on GPA

Durham and Bristol tied at the top as King’s College London, Loughborough and Northumbria make gains

University of Cambridge leads architecture, built environment and planning unit of assessment table based on GPA

Imperial College London leads engineering subject table based on GPA

Oxford and Cambridge dominance in mathematics continues as Glasgow and Edinburgh improve standings

Imperial College London is in pole position after near-perfect scores while the University of Edinburgh tops research power standings

The University of Sheffield climbs to the top, while Manchester and Cambridge are second and third

University of Cambridge tops earth systems and environmental sciences table based on GPA

The University of Bristol came top for chemistry, with the University of Cambridge coming second

Queen’s University Belfast tops agriculture, food and veterinary sciences table based on GPA