Europe

Jean-Eric Paquet tells university heads that there is now a ‘consensus’ that research must help deliver sustainable development goals

Former universities minister says that, while parents of students with poorer A-levels could pay fees up front, less affluent families could not

Institutions becoming increasingly reliant on agreements that silence departing staff, according to freedom of information responses

The advent of datasets linking graduates’ income to their student records has fuelled calls for certain courses and universities to be excluded from public funding. But, ahead of England’s Augar review of post-18 education, the minister who commissioned the longitudinal education outcomes project, David Willetts, warns against such abuses of the data

Robert MacIntosh considers how university staff should approach the management merry-go-round of vice-chancellors, pro vice-chancellors and department heads

Hundreds of jobs endangered by £142 million increase in contributions to Teachers’ Pension Scheme, universities say

Scholarly society investigated alleged breaches of harassment and bullying policy by Alun Evans

Montenegro becomes one of the first countries to outlaw not only plagiarism, but also donation of authorship and fabrication of research results

Questions have been raised over appointment as design school head of academic who is being sued for alleged age discrimination

Vetoing promotions is a way to polarise society against intellectuals, says art historian whose professorship has been rejected

Chris Skidmore says few UK higher education institutions are ‘truly disabled student friendly’

Leading academics express doubt about UK government’s ability to underwrite large EU funding packages