Europe

ETH Zurich’s learning sciences expert discusses his own ‘cut-throat’ schooling, why lecturing fails, and how students can fail ‘productively’

Law students will undertake work experience at campus-based firm in each year of their degree

Marketisation and intense competition a key underlying factor in spate of senior departures and suspensions, experts argue

Little sympathy among scheme’s architects for suggestion that embargoed dissemination should continue to be supported

Key working group no longer active and grade inflation consultation makes no mention of initiative

Country’s £93 million initiative aims to make it a ‘beacon of academia’, but scholars question whether learners will want to go

Vice-chancellors are leading contract negotiations, allowing universities to make more demands on open access and costs

Conservative Party Human Rights Commission calls for investigation into whether Communist-supported centres are being used to intimidate students or restrict freedom of expression

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

Academics highlight brain drain of researchers and loss of international research partners as concerns in wake of latest government ‘attack on autonomy’

Television historian on his failed attempt to ‘escape’ being a historian, Churchill’s ‘mixed’ legacy and why we need more black professors

Angela Rayner pledges to order regulator to ‘avoid university bankruptcies’ in bid to end Tories’ ‘failed free market experiment’