Europe

Professor cites Soviet achievements as evidence of how detachment from mainstream scholarship can foster innovation

Staff covering for academics on leave are often given no time to conduct research themselves

Former deputy steps up to lead as Brexit and funding challenges loom

Data on the entry qualifications of students at UK universities suggest that there must be more to the growth in top degrees

More than half of doctoral candidates surveyed at one university reported “abnormal” levels of stress and depression

Private school pupils 43 percentage points more likely to enrol in most prestigious institutions

Creator of Leicester’s courses in applied geology remembered

UEA and Soas among institutions challenging awards in sector-wide assessment of teaching quality

Synergy Grants will be worth a total of €250 million but, when piloted in 2012 and 2013, success rates were under 3 per cent

Academics who have become deputies for Emmanuel Macron’s En Marche! hope to tackle country’s problems with scientific method

A pilot planned for the subject-level teaching excellence framework has revived debate about the importance of small group teaching at university

Drop in students getting go-ahead for study for first time in almost a decade