Professors warn of recruitment ‘disaster’ over USS changes Senior academics express fears for younger colleagues as strike deadline looms By Sophie Inge 18 January
Erdoğan attack sparks fears over future of Turkish universities President’s broadside against Boğaziçi University raises questions over Islamisation of institutions and international links By David Matthews 18 January
Richard Barbrook: using games in teaching reveals things that reading books can’t The politics lecturer talks Corbyn, computer games and reggae music By Matthew Reisz 18 January
Anti-university narrative ‘politically motivated’, say UK v-cs Institutional leaders tell survey that current avalanche of criticism ‘lacks substance’ By Chris Havergal 18 January
Hundreds of hate speakers allowed on campuses, claims ex-OIA head Baroness Deech tells parliamentary committee that UK universities are ‘complicit’ in censoring lawful speech while giving hate preachers access to students By Jack Grove 17 January
£1.1 million for new centre tackling decline of technicians Initiative is part of bid to tackle impending shortage of 700,000 university technicians expected in UK by 2020 By Rachael Pells 17 January
Luxembourg increases higher education funding by 25 per cent More than half of new budget will go to the University of Luxembourg By Matthew Reisz 17 January
UCL to launch open-access megajournal London institution thought to be the first in UK to launch open-access publishing platform, as academics move away from traditional scholarly journals By Rachael Pells 17 January
Anger over pay spikes for departing vice-chancellors Union takes aim at ‘out of touch’ leaders after accounts show outgoing Kent head got £45,000 uplift in final year By Jack Grove 17 January
Germany fears university growth threatens apprentice tradition Companies blame a ‘social shift’ for young people viewing campus as their only option, but others see positives in student boom By David Matthews 17 January
Malta’s ‘American’ university fires nearly all its staff Jordanian-established institution has fallen short of recruitment expectations By Elizabeth Redden for Inside Higher Ed 16 January
Ministers vetoed student champions from Office for Students board Three student candidates deemed 'appointable' to regulator's board were overlooked in favour of engineering undergraduate By Jack Grove 16 January
