Canadian students ‘charmed’ by Harlow campus Overseas campus in Essex new town has marked 50th anniversary – and may be about to try some local recruitment By John Morgan 12 January
Israel makes English language study compulsory Country hopes move will improve skills of local students and attract more overseas learners By Ellie Bothwell 10 January
Fears for future of private university after recruitment ‘pause’ Situation at Richmond raises questions about English sector regulation By John Morgan 10 January
OfS threatens fines over handling of sexual misconduct cases Regulator proposes rules that, if breached, could lead to fines for institutions By Simon Baker 9 January
UK academia ‘increasingly unsafe’ working environment Study finds levels of psychological safety falling well short of national benchmarks, and getting worse By Anna McKie 9 January
Offer accredited language teaching to all students, says report Hepi paper calls for broad range of measures to boost ailing subject in UK higher education By Simon Baker 9 January
Esports model ‘could be future direction’ for student engagement Latest Innovating Pedagogy report suggests way gamers learn from each other online could be adopted by universities By Simon Baker 9 January
Loss of clinical academics risks patient care, warn UK medics Falling numbers of NHS-based scholars and lack of research time must be reversed, warns Academy of Medical Sciences By Jack Grove 8 January
Labour appoints Emma Hardy to English higher education brief Hull West and Hessle MP, a former teacher and union official, replaces Gordon Marsden By John Morgan 8 January
Lib Dems press to keep UK in EU research programmes and Erasmus Party tables amendments to withdrawal agreement bill, but may struggle to overcome Boris Johnson’s majority By John Morgan 8 January
Russian ‘foreign agent’ rules are chilling academic freedom The looseness of regulations around collaboration with overseas contacts will intimidate scholars into silence and isolation, says Katarzyna Kaczmarska By Katarzyna Kaczmarska 8 January
One in three union members joined strikes, say employers UCU says that universities should focus on solving dispute ‘instead of trying to spin their way out of this’ By Anna McKie 7 January
