Europe

Education minister wants power to prosecute assignment writing companies

Report warns of risk of overlooking women, internal candidates and those from ethnic minorities

We must make it clearer to UK-based European scholars that the UK higher education sector wishes to remain open, says Sir Keith Burnett

Sector expert predicts dissent will be crushed when Lords amendment reaches Commons

If the outcomes of ‘active learning’ are so much better than those for traditional lectures, why stick with the old format? asks Simone Buitendijk

Call to consider faith diversity alongside issues of gender and ethnicity

Nele Feldmann and Katherine Miller on the importance of helping displaced Syrians on to higher education courses

Alternative for Germany also wants to end funding for gender studies, saying discipline is not a serious subject

Government analysis finds most academics think postgraduate research standards have held steady or improved

Conference hears educators are neglecting technology because of ‘obsession’ with dated approaches

University of Waterloo recruits British academics ‘worried about future’ after referendum

Findings from the German Excellence Initiative raise questions over impact of TEF