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Plans for higher education reform rule out institution closures

Increased scrutiny of US sector and distrust of academics puts traditional quality assurance models in question

Polls show ebbing support for ruling Fidesz party after move against Central European University

Figures highlight challenges faced by European universities seeking to educate refugees

Round-the-clock online chats led to unprecedented levels of feedback, says institution's president

Scientific council of France's CNRS recommends severing links over journal edict

Turkish president feted just days after almost 500 academics are sacked

Scottish institution becomes first UK university to have campus offering 'mainstream' degrees in state

Balkan country’s higher education system punches above its weight in new ranking

Proposals to introduce tuition fees in Finland met with resistance

Support for medical science and the humanities will increase under 2017 budget deal

Research finds that support levels are lower among conservatives and some minority groups

Commission hopes awards will help researchers find other sources of funding

Ian Jacobs says visits by hundreds of thousands of international and lifelong learners on short courses will transform campus life

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System rewards academics whose work is used in teaching – but at potential bureaucracy cost

Scholars more likely to falsify or fabricate data if they 'can get away with it', researchers say

Report finds that the average undergraduate pays twice the amount recommended by an affordability benchmark 

Electrical engineering professor Khalil Al-Halwachi jailed for 10 years on 'fabricated' weapons charges

Government warned against further reductions in sector funding in upcoming budget

Country needs a more fair and transparent admissions system, says head of Supreme Council of Universities

As the country succeeds in attracting even more students from overseas, a mixture of demographics, ‘soft power’ concerns and local politics help explain its policy

‘Overwhelming’ evidence that initiatives targeted at disadvantaged groups increase access

Hungarian prime minister says the ‘milk has curdled’ with institution’s support for immigrants

Universities New Zealand highlights university entry gap between ethnic groups

Global academic leaders have found themselves powerless against Hungary’s government

All higher education institutions agree to make figures from nationwide survey publicly available

Government announces new centre in the wake of scandal at National Taiwan University

Country also looking to build stronger links with UK universities

Mahmood Mamdani describes the rationale behind his pioneering research institute in Uganda

Sociologist is reportedly still blocked from leaving the country

Most academics are keen to access other researchers’ material but a third are yet to share their own

Parliament approves legislation that institution says would force it out of Budapest

Institution has tightened security after an academic and seven students died last year

Netherlands' market share of mobile scholars grows by 15 per cent in 10 years

Without input from other disciplines, new technologies will fail to improve lives, report warns

George Soros-funded institution could be ‘first victim’ of increasingly illiberal world order, observers say

Union calls for universities to remove barriers to peaceful protest

Code of conduct frames non-publication of unexpected results as an issue of research integrity

Civil servant status and national pay scales mean senior academics earn less than peers elsewhere

Andrew Potter's article lambasting Quebec's 'social malaise' was heavily criticised

Advocates argue that universities should be prepared to ditch subscriptions altogether

Colorado’s excise tax set to raise millions of dollars to support college access

Institutions need to be excellent across the board to attract leading researchers, analysis warns

Carlos Moedas defends research council as discussions build over next framework programme

Education minister wants power to prosecute assignment writing companies

Minister's speech disrupted at event aimed at finding solutions to sector challenges

Academics say students' concerns reflect tense environment on racial issues

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China and India accounted for almost half of all international students in the US last year, up from just under a quarter a decade before

Expert on EU warns academics against a ‘Brussels monopoly’ over how they research the union

Analysis shows more than two-thirds of overseas learners come from former Soviet states

Comments are a further sign that European institutions are gearing up to poach UK-based researchers

Brussels-based scholar Ahmadreza Djalali has lost 27kg while in detention in Iran

Poll finds staff believe reforms have undermined academic freedom and created more bureaucracy

Car carrying Charles Murray attacked at Middlebury College, reports say