Clarivate wins contract to provide citation data for REF 2021 Data company beats rival Elsevier, which provided indicators for 2014 assessment By Rachael Pells 14 November
English review ‘focusing’ on technical alternative to degrees Association of Colleges head says new route should be coupled with ‘limit’ on number of students taking bachelor’s degrees By John Morgan 14 November
Engagement: not just nice to have, but the next step in research? Academics staging events on everything from ‘pseudo-death’ to convict ballads claim that public events can often drive future scholarship By Matthew Reisz 14 November
Northeastern set to take over New College of the Humanities London institution will take ‘formal name’ of ‘New College of the Humanities at Northeastern’ By John Morgan 13 November
European bid to compare teaching standards moves forward Drafting of learning expectations clears way for Calohee project to set student tests, but it may face resistance from prestigious universities By David Matthews 13 November
Hungarian government cuts ties with university In what could become a model for the rest of the country, Corvinus University of Budapest will have to rely on tuition fees and endowment interest By David Matthews 13 November
Warwick v-c fears ‘nightmare’ Brexit scenarios Stuart Croft warns that loss of access to international research networks could exclude UK from ‘scientific forefront’ for up to 50 years By John Morgan 12 November
Hertfordshire’s £66K fine is first major OfS sanction ‘Seriously negligent’ university overcharged students on franchised course ‘persistently’ By Anna McKie 12 November
Barring Chinese from research projects ‘should not be taboo’ European governments urged to consider banning certain nationals from working on sensitive technology on national security grounds By Chris Havergal 12 November
Ex-universities minister Jo Johnson resigns over Brexit ‘crisis’ Ardent pro-European calls for government to ‘go back to the people’ By John Morgan 9 November
Research Excellence Summit: Russian targets ‘not realistic’, says 5-100 head Andrei Volkov says rankings are only part of the initiative, alongside improved culture and diversity By Rachael Pells 9 November
Research Excellence Summit: drive to adopt English in academia ‘short-sighted’ Emergence of lingua franca in science should not lead to other languages being neglected in teaching, conference hears By Rachael Pells 9 November