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Right-wing trust deficit is pronounced in western Europe and North America but not Australasia, international survey finds

Members of elite grouping saw numbers enrolled on courses increase by more than 300 while others experienced declines

Universities must take a firmer hand with ‘zero-fail’ students, Australian study finds, amid policies to boost underprivileged participation

Attempts by well-meaning scholars to help services ‘drowning in demand’ adding to the problems, finds study

Nobel laureates back calls to pause new system of Medical Research Council funding which threatens future of well-established research units

Minister rules out state taking on more of the cost of paying for higher education

Two south-east Asian countries among top performers in seventh edition of prestigious awards shortlist 

Academic hiring focused on star doctoral graduates should instead focus on what comes afterwards, advises longitudinal study

Housing impacts limited to precincts with high concentration of students, study finds

Provocative paper claims boycott of feminist title left early career scholars high and dry while others profited from ‘moral entrepreneurship’

US university harnesses training hospitals to test and evaluate AI-driven public health solutions 

Outpost on Ain Shams University campus to offer undergraduate and postgraduate Exeter degrees

Tokyo Women’s Medical University apologises after ex-leader accused of funnelling cash from construction project to herself

Cambridge philosopher appointed to oversee free speech in English universities has been unusually quiet since starting the role. Might changes seen as ‘clipping his wings’ force him to be more vocal?

Government intervention in university degree programmes ‘getting worse’ despite erosion of public funding, complains former universities minister

Midlands university is seeking to deepen its ties to India as it opens new health research centre in Andhra Pradesh

Controversial draft guidelines would expand eligibility pool for vice-chancellors and change faculty hiring criteria

Universities ‘relieved’ by balance of qualitative and quantitative data in environment evaluations

Global study reveals that academics believe students are not critical enough of material produced by artificial intelligence tools for use in their work

Australian National University pro vice-chancellor to serve five-year term

Mixed results of final few weeks in White House likely emblematic of Democrat’s presidency, scholars say

Domestic doctoral enrolments have shrunk by 8 per cent over the last half-decade, says report

Bid to hand funding council ability to intervene amid worsening institutional finances could be open for abuse, critics fear

Some staff at Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology warn lack of ‘clear vision’ jeopardises prospects for institution amid uncertainty over funding, but managers insist views of ‘disaffected’ academics are not representative

Climate academic who refuses to travel by plane promises to donate €75,000 from settlement to climate activism

Details provide more clarity on which research staff will need to enter the next Research Excellence Framework

Petition opposes merging of Japanese, Chinese and Korean into combined programme amid fears of ‘significant’ staff cuts

Hepi director argues that England’s funding system is ‘not broken’ but just needs to catch up with inflation – and that ministers should get behind it

While public universities concede to government demands, their private counterparts look less likely to back down

Founding head of UK super-agency calls time on 34-year career in higher education

Right to sue universities over free speech complaints among the elements of act to be removed by education secretary

Combining subjects with computer science seen as way of increasing the attractiveness of courses not linked to jobs

‘Statutory tort’ allowing for universities to be sued over alleged free speech breaches likely to be removed when legislation is reintroduced later this month, according to reports