Europe

Shrinking enrolments at Southampton, Manchester and Sheffield suggest English elite are not immune to pressures of marketisation

Report highlights ‘fear and unease’ among some staff and students who were asked to talk openly about race

Pressures on sector call for ‘brave leadership’ – which includes showing ‘vulnerability’ and transparency – some experts believe

Employers remain at loggerheads with unions over proposed increases ranging from 1.8 per cent to 3.65 per cent

Regulator suggests that most selective universities could admit students with grades BCC at A level without a marked fall in academic standards

At the University of Iceland, female students outnumber men by two to one. But among professors, the ratio is the reverse

Robert-Jan Smits looks back on open access initiative ‘roller coaster’ after swapping European Commission for Eindhoven’s ‘booming’ innovation ‘ecosystem’

Architects of amendment to immigration bill urge Prime Minister Theresa May to ‘embrace’ liberalisation of student immigration regime

Two-year study will help university assess how it may have benefited financially as well as how its scholars contributed to race-based thinking

Institutions in the UK and Ireland raised £1.08 billion in 2017-18, up from £979 million the previous year

Publishers’ terror of libel law and focus on their profit margins have made them excessively risk-averse, says Stuart Macdonald

Proposal would also withdraw financial support for students from the European Union