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Governing body neglecting its responsibilities, says union branch president and former senate member

Separate survey uncovers widespread opposition to recent research funding cuts

Northumbria historian discusses how her research has informed her advocacy and the abuse she has suffered for her campaigning

Community attitudes questionnaire also finds that Australians want caps on international students but not domestic students

Sir Fraser Stoddart says the most rewarding element of his work has been supervising research students, who supported him personally after his wife’s death

Business and academia accuse each other of ‘more aggressive’ assertion of intellectual property rights

Many presidents have pursued their careers just at one institution, raising questions about management skills, report finds

Australian and New Zealand open access advocates want more attention paid to ‘green’ model

Researchers must ‘put on the gloves’ and bring the fight to their critics, says Arizona State professor

Foreign faculty’s dissatisfaction adds to the lure of Chinese recruitment push

Research benefits often unforeseeable but must be communicated

Institutions that win performance-related funding will fall behind anyway, university group claims

Weitermachen Sanssouci may be the first film to tackle the woes of research assessment, casualisation and an obsession with student employability

University presses need to collaborate and think big in an uncertain marketplace, says UNSW executive

Evidence suggests citations boost from working with industry

Doubts over impact of Australian scheme after previous fee discount programme was scrapped

Universities ‘relieved’ at rejection of defence department demands for more control over technology they create

German-Russian conference cancelled over inclusion of acting rector of V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University

Rebekah Tromble and Patricia Rossini feared for their safety when the conservative online world turned against them last summer

Australian university releases details of curriculum for philanthropically funded degree

University presses should not produce popular books at the expense of academic ones, say scholars

Australian researchers say a lack of guidance material forces researchers to second-guess ethics committees

Rebalancing of global higher education promises end of era in which institutions all ‘strive to be the same as Harvard’, says professor

Ramsay Centre proposal ‘crosses red lines’, says union

New £5.7 million institute at the Technical University of Munich triggers ‘ethics washing’ debate

But flagging Chinese applications could dampen future growth

While China’s intensification puts regional rivals in the shade, it casts a spotlight on progress in the special administrative region

Vice-chancellors turn on businesses for not doing enough to educate and retrain their workforce

Ramsay partnership provides ‘a unique opportunity and substantial uplift in funding’, university leadership says

Tragedies exacerbated by lack of research and information sharing, coroner’s study finds

Funding agency forced to deny scholarship candidates will be required to take an ideology test

Separate classes, often in English, mean European students are failing to learn their host country’s tongue, new book finds

Invitation of two far-right speakers to the University of Siegen has prompted protests and counter-claims of censorship

PhD scholarships in the sights as cutbacks more than double analysts’ expectations

Graduate programmes tipped to lure disillusioned millennials

Equity ‘synonymous’ with excellence, creating the pre-conditions for multi-dimensional learning, conference hears

Universities beg government to cancel cut planned for mini-budget

Job security a dream for most higher education staff as casualisation escalates

Increased statistical evaluation will pinpoint the educational ‘treatments’ that work, says Yidan prizewinner

Universities could also be forced to justify the quality and quantity of their research

Move by party tipped to form next government triggers speculation over creation of teaching-only universities

Country will also consider creating teaching-focused professorships to stop academics being overloaded by responsibilities

Fifteen institutions secure bronze accreditation as Athena SWAN heads south

Concocted claims reflect an American ‘preoccupation’, says former Melbourne vice-chancellor

ProfHub plans to let applicants rate universities – and allow anonymous leaks – about the academic selection process

Sector leaders fear consultation could be cover for cutbacks

As reviews pile on reviews, academics urged to get on board

Hyped technology has delivered mixed access benefits, minor cost reduction and poor quality, conference hears

‘Cost recovery’ levy defies logic, institutions argue

Competitive funding once helped novel ideas get off the ground, but now funding ‘excellence’ is hampering new research, says Dutch institute

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

Government attempts to protect regional institutions by restricting growth in capital

Australian universities may have to wait months to find out how much funding they will forfeit

New centre could supply the ingredients to bring home-grown Fields medallists back, says director

Research reportedly picking up the tab for Australian government’s regional cash splash

A downturn last decade offers a textbook example of the risk universities face, say Melbourne researchers

Response to row over vetoing of humanities grants could result in curiosity-driven scholarship being pushed out

Many students who do not complete their course at the first attempt often return to their studies, say experts

Too many institutions fail to abide by their own statements of values, leaders warn

Australia’s freeze on teaching grants protected struggling institutions, not education budget