Regulator puts two-thirds of providers on ‘enhanced monitoring’ England’s Office for Students also says 13 providers are in ‘representations process’ after being provisionally refused loans access By John Morgan 30 October
THE ‘Table of Tables’ 2020: Bath joins top 10 Cambridge leads combined results of three main UK university league tables for ninth year running By Ellie Bothwell 30 October
Anglia Ruskin strips Hong Kong lawmaker of honorary degree Junius Ho, who has been accused of supporting violence against protesters, has honour removed by British university By Anna McKie 29 October
Big variation across Europe in cost of publishing with ‘big five’ Analysis of publishing deals across Europe highlights different costs faced by country-level consortia By Jack Grove 29 October
Debate as French government pushes ahead on grandes écoles access As government takes interventionist stance, education experts call for deeper measures on social and institutional inequality By John Morgan 29 October
Scholars want sabbaticals and placements to fight climate change More than a thousand people sign open letter published online by Times Higher Education By Anna McKie 29 October
Universities must act swiftly and independently on climate change An open letter from academics and campaigners to sector leaders By Contributors 29 October
Part-time students ‘left behind’ by full-time ‘grade inflation’ Part-time learners in the UK much less likely to get a first or 2:1 By Simon Baker 28 October
Fund individual academics, not PIs, ‘to stamp out sexual abuse’ Gender equality expert says higher education sector must ‘strengthen the economic independence of researchers’ By Ellie Bothwell 25 October
Funding warning in new UK research integrity concordat Tough sanctions on institutions that ignore research integrity rules in new concordat backed by Universities UK and research funders By Jack Grove 25 October
Oxford professor ‘failed to properly acknowledge’ Chinese colleagues Collaborators criticise lack of sanction against Anna Lora-Wainwright, but internal investigation finds she did not intend to deceive By Jack Grove 24 October
UK names 14 AI doctoral training centres in £370 million PhD plan Investment will create 2,700 new PhD places in biosciences and AI research By John Morgan 24 October