As Western boycotts continue, Israeli universities look to Asia First Israeli university in China welcomes students this summer By Ellie Bothwell 12 July
Scrap plans for evening teaching shifts, college told Ravensbourne’s plans to stretch the teaching timetable to 7.30pm triggers staff revolt By Jack Grove 11 July
Academics ‘often don’t trust other researchers’ data’ Task force established by government to explore UK open-data landscape calls for greater efforts to ensure data quality By John Elmes 10 July
University tells entire professoriate to reapply for their jobs Senior academics at Teesside University put at risk of redundancy as summer break gets under way By Jack Grove 7 July
Merkel’s party pledges to push Germany into R&D spending lead CDU wants country to invest 3.5 per cent of GDP in research and development – more than twice that of UK By David Matthews 6 July
Poland steps up efforts to track graduate employment Students embarking on degrees can now find out the likely returns on their different options By Matthew Reisz 6 July
First UK-EU branch campus post-Brexit under consideration King’s College London and TU Dresden ‘Transcampus’ aims to strengthen ties between UK and Germany By Ellie Bothwell 6 July
Oxford tribunal rules against compulsory retirement rule Reinstatement of professor over age discrimination must force rethink over ‘unfair’ retirement rules, say campaigners By Jack Grove 6 July
Nicola Dandridge to be CEO of England’s Office for Students Experienced sector figure to leave UUK post in September for powerful new regulator By John Morgan 5 July
TEF 2017: Social class and the TEF: a full picture of participation? A look at the split metrics suggests that some universities may have benefited from having a more advantaged student cohort By Simon Baker 5 July
IFS: English student loan changes ‘hit poorer graduates hardest’ Threshold freeze bites while poorest graduate ‘with largest debts’ of £57,000 on average, researchers warn By John Morgan 5 July
Commission report calls on EU to double research spending Major study on successor to Horizon 2020 also suggests including Canada and Australia in European programmes By David Matthews 3 July
