Europe

Experiment finds groups of students came up with twice as many ideas in classes around midday

Walkouts at 61 universities set to go ahead as chair’s casting vote backs UUK reforms

Loss of bursaries is not only cause of dramatic fall in applications for UK nursing courses, say university leaders

Scholars in English and other disciplines need to engage with big challenges facing planet, conference hears

Almost 2,350 academics from non-UK European countries have resigned from UK universities in the past year, and Layla Moran fears that could be just the tip of the iceberg

In first public appearance since his appointment, Sam Gyimah claims Labour’s plan to scrap fees is unrealistic

Technology behind Bitcoin is not just hype, say advocates, but could prevent data tampering and improve reproducibility

Working with pen and paper and cut off from the outside world, Ali Kaya wrote three papers, re-deriving physical formulas from scratch

University of Paris-Saclay will incorporate ethical considerations into research on emerging technologies 

Stephen Toope describes public speculation about Maha Abdelrahman’s involvement in the case as ‘inaccurate, damaging and potentially dangerous’

‘Trained observers’ can help selection committees stamp out implicit bias against women, Europe’s biggest highest education institutions say

Office for Students asked to tackle huge pay awards given to leaders of private providers