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Government mandate could force universities to address issue more strategically

Ongoing violence in the country’s capital forces students to flee the city’s largest university campus

Minster’s second ‘pad’ could signal government taking policy more ‘in-house’, some suggest

Australian report responds to concerns about prevalence of sexual violence on campuses

Richard Arum, dean of the University of California, Irvine School of Education, speaking after his plenary speech at the 2018 Teaching Excellence Summit 

Experts in teaching and learning weigh in on the teaching versus research debate from the 2018 Times Higher Education Teaching Excellence Summit held at the University of Glasgow

Elite institutions could face sanctions if they fail to deliver on promise to conduct evaluation of bursary spending

Pioneering chemistry professor remembered

Survey reveals widespread prevalence of sexual harassment and bullying in UK specialist institutions

Senior figures are angry over regulator’s approach and fear it could put UK-wide sector ‘in danger’, letters seen by Times Higher Education reveal

Canadian university impresses judges with ‘strength of its vision and plan’ for teaching quality

The Dutch astrophysicist on discovering the chemistry of the cosmos, whether she’d like to go into space, and if extraterrestrial life would surprise her 

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

Research shows that Australia’s overseas student numbers have surged while Brexit will ‘compound the decline’ in UK’s global position

Confidential data suggest published figures routinely underestimate foreign enrolments in Australian higher education

Brazil dominates the ranking but other countries excel on citation impact and international outlook

Union members at Fort Hare are pushing for bigger pay increases

Stampede to study AI has led to warnings that the number of lecturers cannot keep up with demand

Change would be more than cosmetic, consumer finance expert says

Results from the European Student Survey underpinning the rankings reveal key differences in teaching across the Continent

Government voices ‘concern’ about the ‘culture in our universities’ in response to MPs and peers’ report on campus free speech

Father’s failure to pay back loan hits son’s university admission, under state’s big-data system

UK social science body attacks plans to exert more state control over research topics

Legislation proposed by new provincial government would terminate longest-running industrial dispute at an anglophone university in Canada

Massey hopes to allow diaspora to share in resurgence of interest in indigenous culture 

Scholar praises Indian government for supporting only universities that are ‘ready now’ to become world-class

Australian group asks whether costs of ‘gold standard’ assessment are always warranted

Researchers criticise lack of diversity on programme of major conference

Figures on full economic costs of research and teaching show significant growth in gap that is plugged mainly by overseas student fees

Abandonment of demand-driven funding is working its way through the sector

Increasing use of technology on campus will erode division between online and offline education, according to Jeff Maggioncalda

Academic questions whether new committee should be hosted by UK Research and Innovation

Conference hears staff development must not be neglected as multimillion-pound estate upgrades take effect