Europe

Public spending watchdog calls for action on high dropout rates and payments to ‘ineligible’ students

Institutions that are well connected to ‘global transportation hubs’ rise up league tables faster, study finds

Hungarian government extends deadline for compliance with education act after Budapest-based institution meets criteria

Middlesex head 'not worried' by Lord Adonis' calls for return of polytechnic-university divide

Kate Sang on how fear of embarrassment and perceived lack of professionalism are impacting academics' lives

Treasury Committee will also look at a 'so-called graduate tax'

Oxford Foundry open to students of every discipline, to nurture talent and start-ups

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Institution’s Canadian leader tackles executive remuneration, Brexit and diversifying the university’s student intake in THE interview

The Leicester space physicist on winning Astronauts, exploring uncharted mountains, and scientists’ social skills

Female lecturers allegedly under pressure to settle legal action after university’s equality charter application rejected

Canadian institution targeting thousands of French applicants who fail to gain place at home