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Australian study suggests simply reinstating on-campus tests may not have much effect

Articulating numerical goals can focus efforts, commentators say, but not always in the right direction

Discussing growing influence of philanthropic donors, experts stress need for transparency and careful thinking

Authors say Omani findings could help drive education reform

Cleaners, security guards and catering staff set to be on picket lines alongside UCU colleagues

Westminster government provides £30 million for ‘talent and stabilisation fund’ and pumps extra £100 million of quality-related support into English universities

Sector should use review to break free from internal preoccupation and ‘utilitarian’ focus on private domestic benefit, conference hears

Move seen as a way of strengthening links between academia and policymakers to ensure parliamentarians have access to latest scholarship

Academic research leaders welcome shift from Trump hostilities but see unnecessary limits on foreigners in US labs, and uncertainties over unification of disclosure rules

Chancellor heralds switch of investment zone focus to higher education institutions in ‘left-behind areas’

Speaking on eve of strikes, new chair George Boyne says affordability is ‘the big constrictor’

Analysis reveals which UK universities have the widest gender pay gaps

Fourth edition of ‘very effective’ programme will look more closely at recruitment processes and science disciplines

Classicist hopes her retirement will allow more of the ‘precariat’ to get a foot on the academic career ladder

English regulator focuses on law, business and computing courses not meeting thresholds for continuation, completion and progression

Biden-backed settlement benefits 200,000 students from 153 institutions, largely in the for-profit sector, with no expectation taxpayers will be reimbursed for the losses

Institutions having to make more direct interventions as cost-of-living crisis bites with little sign of help from Westminster

High turnout among college-aged voters helps Democrats, but renewed Republican control of House may limit their payback on affordability and equity

Ongoing faceoff with administrators, which began with demand to raise stipends, leaves two students in hospital

Northumbria named University of the Year and Dame Mary Beard honoured at ‘Oscars of higher education’

Economist released weeks after being sentenced to three years’ imprisonment over ‘trumped up’ charges

Sector leaders acknowledge long-term problems with pay and say now is the time to resolve them after union promises strikes

Chancellor also announces that investment zones will be refocused to centre on universities in ‘left-behind areas’ driving growth sectors

UUKi report records 12.7 per cent increase in transnational education headcount in space of a year

Scholars express ‘deep concern’ over recent decrees banning women from public places and reinstating sharia

Universities told to spend 5 per cent of total income on equality programmes after report finds UN 2030 goal ‘highly unlikely’ to be met

Data hint at progress in ‘improving the pipeline’ of female researchers

Don’t wait for governments to act, say university leaders

Author of centenary report on UK adult education says plans as they stand unlikely to undo decades of neglect

Difficult decisions require uncomfortable truths, epidemiologist tells Pacific Rim universities

Steve West also calls on politicians to ‘get serious’ about solution to declining university funding

Latest DfE appointee tells event he does not want the policy debate ‘to be about Oxbridge, Oxbridge, Oxbridge’

Dozens of publishers have disclosed cost data as part of next stage of European-led open access push but ‘big two’ are absent

Non-partisan panel asked to update access targets and complete Bradley review’s unfinished business

Experts warn shrinking pool of postgraduate researchers would be ‘pretty disastrous’

National Union of Students urges government to provide support in autumn statement as students slash spending on food and heating to get by

Consensus with regions and reversals by parliament’s budget committee help keep coalition promises

Edinburgh’s finance chaos exposes deeper problems with the tools institutions rely on to function day-to-day

But lead negotiator for parliament’s research committee said refusal to plough more unspent funds back into programme ‘cannot stand’ 

Black and Hispanic students affected most badly in terms of re-enrolment and completion

Region’s biggest transformative agreement ‘an important first step’ in open access ‘journey’

Clarivate warns of efforts to ‘game the system and create self-generated status’

Walkout over wages and benefits – biggest in any US job sector this year – snarls 300,000-student system just weeks before autumn semester exams

Universities cancel classes after separate incidents

All but tiny minority of population qualify for enrolment under ‘economically weaker’ label

Science and technology investment fund created by universities of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield injects first capital to fuel innovation shift

A researcher may have aided Iran’s nuclear weapons programme with unauthorised access, but his sentence was softened due to ‘deficient’ university routines

Number of new enrolments up 7 per cent this autumn, says IIE data

Computer scientist on his company’s foray into testing, competing with TikTok and lessons from being a university professor

Open letter signed by more than 2,000 documents numerous issues with new finance systems – and calls for leaders to take responsibility

Successful applications from south Asia fall off a cliff, as authorities struggle to distinguish genuine students from those with other things on their minds

Increasingly international universities want to push native-language brain drain up the political agenda, despite their rescue from ‘freefall’ by a recent funding top-up

You are part of the problem, academic union tells Labour, as government declines to ‘step in’

Leading civil rights figure in US higher education questions assertions by Supreme Court justices that ending legacy advantages could be a reasonable response to their expected ban on affirmative action

Funding council reviewer signals intent to recommend ditching ERA, rewriting national interest test and circumscribing veto power

Tribal areas get their first public institution since 2018 incorporation, benefiting women unable to seek education further afield

Ministries and rectors in Austria and Slovakia are yet to reach agreements on the extra funding needed to cover surging costs

Charity Commission issues formal warning over handling of finances linked to Martyn Percy affair

Survey finds a vast majority of students want clearer strategies for climate change

One of the biggest original Mooc providers is ‘entering a new chapter’, its chief executive has told staff, amid a gloomier financial climate