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EU officials want to take money for Chips Act, but government purseholders have ruled out using unspent project funds to replace it

Four in five postgraduates who responded to union survey say they are likely to leave sector

New Zealand now perceived poorly on factors where it used to excel, survey finds

Major survey of almost 4,000 firms finds work with institutions at national and international level is a large slice of collaboration activity

Close reading of ERC Starting Grant proposals finds secrets to success and raises concerns about smoke and mirrors from narrative CVs

Berkeley dormitory crisis offers broad warning that higher education won’t meet equity goals if students have no place to live

Deal includes prestigious Cell Press and Lancet journals

Signatories of letter urging peace include dozens of top academics and Nobel prizewinner

Huge national survey finds that half of students know little or nothing about formal reporting mechanisms

Potential for ‘mass cancellation of gap years’ in rush for 2022 entry as finance expert warns 2023 starters could face huge hike in costs

War in Ukraine may reshape university internationalisation, but most academics do not expect a knockout blow

University leavers jumped 40 per cent in 2021, according to government figures

University-led projects ‘directly supporting local employers, jobs, and communities’ at risk, UUK tells government

‘Task force’ to facilitate two-way flow of students and graduates

Withdrawal of honorary degree from government race review chair raises Tory ire, while OfS chief executive says legislation would allow it to act on such cases

Researcher shrugs off ban, saying Russians are ‘used to avoiding such useless regulations’

Renaissance historian will be first woman to lead the Russell Group institution

Long-standing issues put into sharp focus as expert predicts half of students pursuing medicine abroad fail to become doctors

Head of Cardiff University’s new social sciences centre says virtual working has not dented the case for new ‘superlab’

In spite of announcing no net value in the Trump-era clampdown, Biden prosecutors persist with unclear evidence against Kansas scientist

Sunny start to the latest round of UK industrial action couldn’t mask the frustrations felt by many union members

Parliamentarians clash on funding discretion and whether it should continue, but agree on need for ARC review

Holberg Prize winner Sheila Jasanoff says policy implications of technological progress deserve far greater study

Professor says he accepts it may be necessary for ties to be cut to some institutions in the country   

Unions want Staffordshire University to stop hiring new employees through a subsidiary company on ‘inferior terms’

Ostensibly family-friendly work arrangements assumed to benefit women can have the opposite effect, a study of academics’ lockdown experiences suggests

East-West schism widened by Russian academia being cut off from world, says scholar

Access to many courses will remain free, says head of Mooc pioneer, with participants charged for exams, interaction and certificates

Senior officer dismissed because of cluster of cases at university in Jilin

Platform responds to online criticism by telling researchers they would be reported to their funders

Head of IEAA tells UUK forum that government’s approach is about helping ‘corporate Australia’, not students

Global horrors reverberate in far-off campuses, widening the gap between students and their prosperous surrounds

First post-Brexit figures show limited demand in Europe for bespoke visa scheme designed to bring top researchers to the UK

Blow to new UK research agency as Peter Highnam steps back for ‘personal reasons’

EU governments told to reconcile contradictory national rules if cornerstone of popular alliance-building programme is to be realised

Economic uncertainty may have encouraged students to stay in education despite campus closures, says UK statistics body

Tory former minister who abolished binary divide says hierarchy should be on ‘educational quality’ only – and sector ‘still not properly accountable’

Two genetics experts with series of shared attributes enjoy collaborating, but suspect coincidences not bloodlines

Grassroots effort by linguists seeks to lift up non-native English speakers, many of whom cannot afford professional proofreaders

Biomedical engineer talks about problem-solving, the importance of monitoring foetal cardiac health and why no one has got it quite right on STEM education for women

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

Former minister who has called for focus on India warns sector not to create new ‘over-reliance’

Universities will be told what approaches to online education fail to meet Office for Students' requirements as government pushes for return to face-to-face education

Universities should avoid rushed assumptions about Covid’s financial impacts and its effects on study plans, survey suggests

Science committee hears evidence of ‘shocking’ levels of under-representation of ethnic minority experts at research council meetings

Philosopher A. C. Grayling says scholars should not fight digitisation but should seek to protect academic freedom and avoid the creation of a gig economy

Informatics faculty turns its hand to creating tools to help civilians and hamper Russian attacks

Grant reviewers should close the circle by evaluating final reports, and recipients should spend the money as they see fit

Plans for a legal statute to smooth cross-border working were embraced by those struggling with national reforms, but most EU governments are getting cold feet

Some institutions lost about a tenth of their non-academic workforce in main year of pandemic

Slump in applications to country’s biggest tertiary admissions centre aligns with anecdotal reports that universities are struggling to find students

Harvard insists it is ‘important not to conflate’ actions of a government with academics’ nationality in light of Ukraine invasion

Science minister sets up working group to examine how academics can move more freely between public and private research

Vocational and higher education get equal billing, as Australian university groups unite in jobs-focused election spiel

Institutions cannot ‘in good conscience’ partner with Russian counterparts while Ukraine war continues, says Chris Philp

Universities UK raises concern about ‘requires improvement’ TEF rating and overall administrative burden

While all US states exempt non-profit organisations, communities under financial stress renew push for campuses to contribute voluntarily

Radical measures to combat bullying in UK science may backfire, warns sector bullying lead, but ex-research council head urges boldness

Approach will aid those who are already able to get ahead, critics warn

Annual measure offers significant aid increases for low-income and minority students, more modest gains for research spending