Europe

Oxford academic says increasing work pressures and time constraints mean practice’s future is at risk

UK ‘would still like to explore option’ of association but talks cannot begin until April at the earliest, says new universities minister

Regulator rules against firm over implication students could submit essays as own and claims about writers’ university backgrounds

Research England says that institutions will be assigned a decile rank in seven broad areas of knowledge exchange

Richard Davies accuses registrar of attempting to ‘seize the position of vice-chancellor’

Positions are being redistributed to Italy’s richer regions, academic group warns, exacerbating long-standing inequalities

Birmingham academic says scale of issue in England is ‘dramatically misrepresented’

Data for age profile of academic workforces across the continent show wide variation between countries

Leading figures in UK higher education warn sector will ‘take decades to recover’ from no-deal Brexit

In Germany, Brazil and Hungary, students are being encouraged to film ‘biased’ professors, mirroring far-right tactics in US

Theory that the protests provided essential fuel for Corbynism has specific relevance for higher education as Augar review looms

Robots and drones should be part of teaching and learning, says report looking into teaching trends in 2019