Europe

Falling UK graduate wages reflect not too many students but a flexible labour market’s post-crash adjustment, argues David Willetts

New reports uncover widespread gossip, harassment, verbal abuse and ‘scientific sabotage’ in Dutch universities – with women particularly affected

Fragmentary, first-person accounts are challenging the staid traditions of the monograph, event hears

Calls made for campuses to do more to help tackle climate change

Istanbul scholar Füsun Üstel becomes first academic to go to jail for signing 2016 peace declaration

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Proposals reduce anticipated future contributions, but fall short of union members’ ‘no detriment’ demand

Private equity-owned BIMM to receive £2.4m in teaching grant as OfS funds new providers for first time

Leading professor who backs creation of ‘Cern for AI’ calls lack of decisive government action ‘disturbing’

But THE analysis also suggests windfall for institutions if fall in student recruitment is modest 

Higher Education Policy Institute says it is ‘shocking’ that no such dataset exists

In a managerial era, universities are challenging the traditional idea that only individuals need protecting, say Otto Hüther and Georg Krücken