Europe

Joshua Harmon’s savage play, Admissions, brings to London its tangled emotions unleashed by diversity policies

Number of international students in UK is at highest level since 2011, despite drop in arrivals from European Union

The UK’s new knowledge exchange framework, whose proposed metrics were unveiled last month, has raised more questions over relationships between universities and business. David Secher and Surya Raghu cast their eye over 40 years of policy evolution on either side of the Atlantic

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

David Green says exposing pay disparities within universities may encourage removing lower-paid staff from direct payroll

Adam Tickell acknowledges university has ‘failed’ staff and students in the past but says improving well-being is his top priority

The Oxford professor and Costa Book of the Year award-winner on bringing a Holocaust survivor’s story into the present through ‘documentary novelisation’

Diana Mitlin, professor of global urbanism at the University of Manchester, shares her tips on working with politicians and government officials

Failure to reach 50 per cent turnout threshold on pay ballot and exit of leader Sally Hunt must open the door for debate on future, union leaders agree

Plans for Park College seen as a power grab by central management

Northumbria historian discusses how her research has informed her advocacy and the abuse she has suffered for her campaigning

Deputy minister says new law will open universities ‘to the needs of the people’, after it sparked mass student protests