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New schools of future technologies and modern industries part of 10.7 billion yuan plan

Pledges of $90 million help Ivy League campus join small club depleted in recent years by financial stress and prioritisation of domestic applicants

Continuing to offer anonymous surveys just invites abuse of lecturers, say Australian researchers

While its educational niche may confer unique advantage, D’Youville shows it can maintain student services with one less day

Delayed roll-out of booster jabs among UK’s younger population means thousands of students will be at risk of serious infection, say researchers

Provost at Virginia expected to take office in July, replacing Gutmann after high-profile 18-year tenure

Scholars asked to refuse to speak or help with examinations at university where 46 jobs remain at risk

England deputy chief medical officer, on secondment since 2017 from the university, has been one of most high-profile faces of country’s pandemic response

Northern Powerhouse Partnership appeals to universities to follow Sheffield Hallam’s lead on pandemic mentoring for secondary pupils

Isolation and anxieties of Covid and Trump eras drive campus matchmaking model, and possible reinforcement of elite

Search for wider solutions must continue while Berlin’s postdoc contract law faces judicial scrutiny, experts say

Union updates guidance to branches that also calls for ‘high quality’ face masks to be made available to staff

End of negotiations echoes events of 2008, when union was floated and then dropped

Selective institutions more likely to show their favouritism publicly, study finds

Former director of fair access Chris Millward says government move to cut university places ‘serious prospect’ but unlikely to succeed

Facing lower tolerance for free speech, academics and students share their approaches on retaining autonomy and avoiding unwanted scrutiny

Researchers say study adds to ‘growing body of evidence’ on poor mental well-being for doctoral students

Biden team aims to block Trump-era political interference in research findings, although its top adviser faces her own such questions

Lawsuit brought by five former students of 16 top-ranked institutions alleges costly violation of limited federal exemption for coordinating scholarship packages

Major union win includes access to arbitration or mediation on discrimination and harassment complaints

Review recommends end of prison education programme following ‘unimaginable grief’ caused by 2019 killings of two delegates

University Grants Commission says doctoral students on fellowships should get eight months’ maternity leave

Covid and public funding cuts hit London arts institution, while union also criticises new bank covenants

Leading providers of university insights and data will reach combined audience of more than 50 million annually

Leading scholars from Australian universities have joined scientific bodies to demand reversal of pre-election veto of humanities grants

Detention of Faizullah Jalal sparks protest in defence of legal scholar who publicly denounced the ruling regime

Success rate for prestigious starter grants drops below 10 per cent

Once a conservative rallying cry, calls to ease protections spread in academia as fast-moving Omicron variant appears less threatening

Data suggest that European mobility and recruitment from Asia are rapidly diversifying campuses on the continent 

Sciences Po Grenoble director calls for ‘calm and rationality’ after suspension of Klaus Kinzler leads to loss of regional funding

Union accuses Huddersfield of ‘cold and calculated’ decision not to give Jonathan Duxbury his old job back

Decision by top court means another rebrand will be needed to help outsiders understand who’s who among republic’s reassembled universities

Experts warn of dangerous abandonment of long-standing ethical limits in pursuits of human vaccines and wildlife management

Gender critical theory and harassment move up agenda as major battles over pay and pensions loom

Figures suggest just a tenth of previous entrant numbers from some countries got a study visa

While many governments struggle to predict workforce needs, Australia’s new tropical alliance is giving it a crack

Appealing narrative attached to ‘first-in-family’ students may obscure the actual extent of their social disadvantage, says researcher

President to leave amid political interference by Republican governor, after strong record of student, faculty and research growth since 2015

Legislation gives Westminster government power to block or impose conditions on acquisition of intellectual property in 17 areas

Biden administration promises simplification long sought by research universities

French president seeks to rejuvenate thinking about common continental identity

Staff and students voice concern over CUHK’s condition that union can be reinstated only if it pledges not to break law

Creating unique datasets for online exams preferable to ‘naive’ honour codes or faulty online surveillance, experts say

In free speech battle, court agrees that university and conservative governor still pose a threat to basic faculty rights

Australia’s wealthiest university locks horns with one of its own academics, who says ‘the public has a right to know’

Cara Aitchison says UK universities should prioritise concerns like precarity, gender pay gap and ‘compassion for deep tired’ staff

Unequal distribution may explain ‘inequality in scholarly outcomes’ and lead to some areas becoming ‘systematically understudied’

But experts warn there is little hope of progress while relations remain in ‘freezer’

World’s biggest digital library of Chinese journals under pressure over copyright infringement

Julie Lydon and Sarah Springman recognised alongside vice-chancellors, UUK chief executive and former UCU leader

Cypriot university to launch degree focusing on Zuckerberg-backed virtual worlds

Reopening of international study opportunities looms large as Covid-19 continues to dominate news agenda

Ontario parliament demands documents over university’s unprecedented bankruptcy, though analysis may turn to realities of bankrolling remote communities

Government move brings meaning to the motto ‘Scholars for a Year, Cheveners for Life’, says advocate

Students collaborate to combat food shortages, as Covid widens the gap between Australia’s haves and have-nots

But despite characteristic consensus on unsustainable workloads, key details of Dutch government investment agenda remain unknown

Two years after student was beaten to death by classmates, calls for institutions to take more responsibility

Universities show the way on transforming leadership culture, tackling period poverty, boosting African science and promoting leading research during the pandemic

Outside a few elite institutions promising online formats for the coming semester, campus health experts fear monetary strains may overpower medical judgement

Six humanities projects reportedly vetoed and China collaboration nosedives as Discovery outcomes finally see light of day