Europe

President of Humboldt University of Berlin says new public laboratory will help drive the ‘production, preservation and communication of knowledge’

Rosie Duffield says Labour should ‘keep that conversation open’, while Wes Streeting criticises ‘middle-class subsidy’

Leaders of top universities say students must be pushed to ‘breaking point’ and allowed to fail

Data from the Office for Students appear to show vocational courses have bigger shares of such students

Complaints process can drag on for several years and is nearly impossible to challenge, says 1752 Group report

Claims that the UK’s counterterrorism strategy targets Muslims and harms free speech are ‘nonsense’, says Prevent coordinator Chris Sybenga

Carlos Moedas tells MEPs institutions should introduce allocations for female academics ‘at some point’

Seeing the NES as a solution to Labour’s biggest electoral problem could bring relevance to a vague concept, writes John Morgan from Liverpool

Staff at the ‘University of the Air’ are more optimistic after the end of an unloved era of leadership, but challenges remain

Accusations of academic malpractice have forced two resignations and reached the prime minister

Shadow minister warns UK risks being overtaken by rivals in North America and Asia if sectors don’t work more closely together

Libraries worry that they could be caught up in a drive to force platforms like YouTube to share their profits with creators