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Flagship campus resumes full autumn admissions plans after legislature exempts it from environmental ruling, but promises fixes to housing crisis

Police, politicians, doctors, cleaners and school students share Southern Cross campus as an emergency base

Research-intensive universities step up Russia boycott measures as UK Research and Innovation turns off funding over Ukraine invasion

Just weeks into Russia’s war on Ukraine, academics are leaving the country, in what could be the beginning of a new brain drain

Union leaders insist support for further strikes is strong but new pressures may harden university leaders’ resolve, experts warn

Crisis spotlights Russia-linked donations in UK after MP starts plan to force transparency on universities’ foreign funding

Data useful ‘if considered in context’, Australian university says, but union insists its publication is ‘dangerous’

Australian study probes the difficulties facing latter-year students – and the ‘balancing act’ required of their lecturers

Authorities to debate changes to master’s and PhD enrolment systems

Genetics expert Magnuson leaves vice-chancellor post saying he inadvertently copied online text into grant application

Dispute over indigenous knowledge ‘not amenable to resolution’, investigation panel finds, as New Zealand society pledges ‘helpful and constructive’ dialogue

New guidelines for undergraduates to properly treat their study subjects fuels debate over net gain for science

Scholars optimistic despite 490,000 learners still waiting to enter country, with recent survey showing 53 per cent struggle with ‘serious mental health issues’

Newly elected Sorbonne president Nathalie Drach-Temam says scholars will not back away from controversial subjects and that she has no desire to profit from British academia’s Brexit woes

Proposal to ‘link performance and funding’ the latest in an interventionist trend

Union announces new ballot as disputes over pay and pensions remain unresolved

Identification of 100,000 eligible borrowers cast as first step to fulfill long-promised relief for teachers and others in public and non-profit jobs

Reflecting nation’s angry partisan tone, admissions advisers’ association mutes online exchange, and sister group weighs shunning Texas

Supporters say student engagement could lead to a ‘less radicalised’ student body, but fear more political meddling in institutional decisions

Uncertainty around UK’s future in EU research, plus shortage of domestic funding beyond Oxbridge, drove ERC grant holder to swap Southampton for Bergen

First randomised controlled trials of doctoral writing classes find major improvements in researcher confidence and study habits

Veto powers not unique to the ARC, medical research funder says – although they are not exercised elsewhere

South Yorkshire town without university plots recovery from deindustrialisation via innovation and skills ‘ecosystem’, winning OECD praise

The Ukraine war has led to unprecedented curtailment of academic ties, but could breaking off all relations with Russia cause further problems?

National Audit Office says regulator must do more to ‘build trust’ with sector and DfE should clarify level of ‘tolerance for provider failure’

Students welcome turnaround, which comes after January announcement that US State Department had shuttered the scheme

IRU’s pre-election manifesto for university sector also recommends adoption of the UK’s Haldane principle

Sweeping sanctions suggest international collaboration could become fragmented into regional power blocs, says sector leader

After a decade of growing together, top US faculty association set to organise inside second-biggest teacher union

Top Australian university sidelined from rich fellowship scheme over ‘unacceptable’ lack of diversity in honorary doctorates

Industrial relations umpire overturns finding that information implicitly identifies individual staff

Student number controls idea seen as response to ‘handing over levers’ to shape English provision in 2010 switch to loans-based system

THE research finds that high share of global institutions fail to provide relevant documentation, despite claiming to have numerous measures aimed at supporting women

Nine out of 10 staff who responded to survey want new rule to be rescinded

‘Big-picture thinkers’ would set national priorities, sidestep electoral cycles and deal with ‘boundary issues’ involving indigenous knowledge

Heads of learned institutions back Putin in the ‘most difficult decision in his life’

Institutions set to sign up to new guidelines promising to ‘prioritise the interests of applicants’

Levelling-up plans for ‘innovation accelerators’ bring hope for local decisions on R&D, but warnings against Whitehall’s ‘Stanford-Silicon Valley’ concept

Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal accused of disrespect towards administrators and monarchy

University’s internal debate about the pros and cons mirrors live discussions elsewhere

With data showing better post-secondary pathway, administration wants more job-oriented course offerings

University and College Union members will again walk out over pay, pensions and working conditions

Storms, flash floods and emergency services effort force students back online

Research and education partnerships, participation in events and peer review all put on hold after appeal from ministry

With relief now unlikely before this month’s autumn admissions offers, top US campus talks of online and deferred acceptances

While most submissions support legislation to end ministerial veto rights, some urge middle ground approach

Agencies must agree on ‘demarcation line’ for questionable behaviour and mete out consistent punishment, Science paper says

Tory peer Lord Wharton ‘disgusted’ by ‘attacks’ on Ukrainian-born energy tycoon, whose firm he has advised and who donated to him as MP

Ukrainian professor turned politician Inna Sovsun on coordinating student resistance and why international scholars must boycott Russia

Invasion of Ukraine ‘threatens the peace, freedom and democracy on which freedom of inquiry and academic collaboration is based’

University refuses to pay staff who have returned to work until they reschedule lectures lost to last round of walkouts

Global index links downward trend over the past decade to accelerating and deepening decline in democracy

Share of female vice-chancellors at high-ranking institutions surpasses 20 per cent for first time based on THE World University Rankings data 

Returning numbers underwhelming so far as isolated state casts off its shackles

‘We are not excusing illegal behaviour, but we are acknowledging that it happens and appears widespread’, says Hepi paper advocating harm reduction approach

But one expert suggests closer ties with Beijing may not be as straightforward as Kremlin thinks

The higher education professor discusses totalitarian Romania, his academic inspirations and a fascination with folk music

Academics who did not disclose sexual orientation more likely to produce fewer papers, according to surveys

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

Universities brace as hot labour market beckons locals who kept them afloat through Covid