Europe

Nottingham agrees undisclosed settlement after undergraduate cleared by fitness-to-practise panel 

Glasgow named University of the Year for addressing legacy of its ties to the slave trade

Senior leader says universities should focus on improving and charging more for transnational education

Public engagement expert concerned about communities that scientists are failing to reach

Panel warns that action is needed to tackle excessive competition and casualisation if research careers are to remain attractive

Panel discussion hears that pandemic should be used as a springboard for real change by looking at leadership

Ex-adviser to UK government praises global scientific community’s ‘remarkable’ response and criticises ‘false narrative’ that he was ‘responsible’ for lockdowns

French scholars, accused of fostering terrorism, fear escalating rhetoric could curtail freedom of research

Ethnic minority students twice as likely to be assaulted in teaching space as white classmates

English and Welsh ombudsman willing to admonish universities over Covid-related disruption only if they have not made effort to deliver quality online learning, case summaries reveal

Picking winners at random helps back risky research, boosts niche subjects and curbs nepotism, recipients say

Universities are now committed to ‘celebrating success’ and to treating every failure as just a stepping stone on the way to further success. Yet this, argues Joe Moran, is a betrayal of what really matters in the academy