Europe

Proposed penalties for intuitions that fall foul of new regulator called “eye-watering”

Hepi/YouthSight poll finds 68 per cent of students now back the party, up from 55 per cent prior to June’s general election

Clare McGlynn is not surprised that the UK was overlooked as a focus country after a successful EU funding bid

It may be five years since Moocs went mainstream, but Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy believe they still have the potential to reach the hard-to-reach

Following hype over their potential, online courses drained senior management time to the detriment of open educational resources, conference hears

Open-access campaigner talks about the flood of ideas that comes to her at night and the challenges of change

‘Spurious’ justifications for executive pay criticised as one leader claims furore will ‘blow over’

Academic whose research interests were shaped by an African childhood remembered

From faculty meetings to exam boards, research committees to staff-student liaison panels, meetings are a regular feature of university life. Robert MacIntosh explains how to chair them

Research grant data shows patterns of academic migration around Europe – with Italy suffering the biggest brain drain

Alternative metrics find that research on dieting, PhD mental health and female doctors attracted the most online attention this year

Response to US withdrawal from Paris climate accords announces first winners – but has been denounced as a publicity stunt by some French academics