Europe

New LSE vice-chancellor discusses ‘Wild West’ US, dealing with campus protests and the personal turmoil that led him to make the switch to London

Dame Karen Holford tells MPs that financial stress caused by visa restrictions are hurting R&D ecosystem while Aria bosses outline their strategy to Lords

London Higher chief executive moves into new role focused on translating interdisciplinary research into public policy solutions

Francesca Albanese, UN special rapporteur on the occupied Palestinian territories, has been giving a series of London lectures on ‘genocide in Gaza’ and international law

Framework for UK health funders will require applicants to explain how they will consider and distinguish sex and gender in their work

Faltering UK recruitment is being capitalised on by business schools in the continent 

Political interventions on a host of issues suggest marketisation’s opponents are wrong to see neoliberalism as the root of all evil, says Gerbrand Tholen

John Cater, who is set to retire after 31 years at the helm of Edge Hill University, warns that sector finances have never been more challenging

Wartime austerity could slash research output and disproportionately hit disadvantaged students, sector leaders warn

Investments from Trinity College Cambridge and university will support about 300 PhDs over a decade

Collegium Humanum allegedly issued more than 1,000 fast-track MBA degrees in exchange for ‘financial and personal benefits’

Kemi Badenoch appears light on policy but keen to land punches – with higher education potentially again in the firing line