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Eleven universities, their real estate and shares have been given over to foundations that observers say will be dominated by ruling party loyalists

Independent lobby welcomes new short course funding and regulatory ‘reprieve’ but rails against perpetuation of ‘unfair’ loan fee

Union report on post-qualification admissions model also suggests that institutions should consider scrapping interviews

President offers states three-to-one split on college aid boost alongside 20 per cent rise in Pell Grant

Tributes paid to visionary teacher of architecture who encouraged students to ‘dream wildly’

Artist and researcher Anthony Schrag on the importance of interdisciplinarity, how university changed him and why art will be even more important in the post-Covid world

Call comes after publication of thousands of allegations of sexual harassment and abuse on UK campuses

Statement in financial accounts explaining Bolton leader’s pay runs to almost two and a half pages

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

Proposed acquisition of Ouriginal would give academic integrity giant vast majority of market

Ratings agency credits lay-offs, casualisation and course cuts for Australian universities’ ‘relatively robust’ position

Policy shift nevertheless leaves major backlogs and processing limits

Institutions band together at Tsinghua event to address climate change and other crises

Survey finds that aspiring overseas students are still looking for promise of face-to-face teaching

Research council head calls for ‘long-term vision’ to end cross-border funding ‘volatility’

Lack of transparency in examinations under spotlight as US feminist’s dissertation finally lodged in Bodleian

Lockdowns decimated the part-time jobs on which French students relied, and debate is now under way over how to fix ‘broken’ system of state support

Imminent research cuts linked to GCRF reductions could fall heavily on UK’s regions, figures show

Covid safety almost a liability as Australia and New Zealand relegated as ‘spectators’ rather than participants in international education recovery

Education Committee chair says Bristol’s handling of David Miller case has created ‘hostile environment’ for Jewish students akin to ‘1930s Germany’

Women gain milestone at prestigious science body although racial divide remains wide

Tao Li to leave amid ongoing investigations into 2019 death of Huixiang Chen

Aston and London South Bank are latest institutions to shutter humanities and social sciences degrees

‘Tesla’ creators say accuracy and security in design were more important than rushed roll-out

But poll finds opinion fairly evenly divided among general population

Entrepreneurship skills can benefit students and society, but many universities aren’t giving the area the attention it needs, experts tell Anna McKie

Eric Chabriere’s attacks against critics of hydroxychloroquine are seen as a sign of the social-media-induced radicalisation that has occurred during the pandemic

Union threatens strikes and marking boycott after staff identified for redundancy based on research grant income and citation impact scores

Online event to explore how pandemic and technology are reshaping geography of global higher education

Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield join forces to attract private investment

Winners describe how gossip and gaudy colours, as well as a desire to relieve suffering, spurred their research

Lawmakers ‘desperately seeking innovation nirvana’ fail to buttress it with steadfast policies or durable statistics

In year before REF census, at a handful of institutions more than two-thirds of staff were reclassified 

Nearly one in five surveyed students find overlap between their master’s and doctoral training

Opening up the canon is essential for a discipline that struggles with diversity, claims author 

Relying on academic research, thinktanks translate findings into the language of politicians and media, EUA president Michael Murphy argues – but not always accurately

Faculty group’s first boycott order in decade affirms pro-Israel interference, but president Meric Gertler pushes back

Joint statement from research-intensive institutions criticises plan to exclude UK and Swiss scholars from grants covering space and quantum computing

Losses far worse than they appear on paper, v-c warns, as institution reels from plunging investment and international income

Book sets out to challenge the simplistic and divisive thinking to be found in disciplines as diverse as economics and literary studies

Encouraging students to start a business could do more harm than good, researchers say

Scotland 2070 authors call for doubling of research spend and for institutional mergers, to boost global clout and innovation focus

Universities fear ‘emergency brake’ will halt essential medical training and lab work, but in the Netherlands, Denmark and Portugal campuses are reopening

Conference hears argument that freedoms are ‘better achieved’ by maintaining public support for universities

Vice-chancellor says philanthropy has been especially transformational in low-income countries

With suggestion that academia profits from ‘slave labour’, senators back new threat to research ties

Trudeau backs spending despite deep deficit, yet still disappoints academic researchers

Politicians emphasising jobs while students want impact, Eric Barron tells THE summit

Advocates of healing find challenge in predecessors with Confederate sentiments

UK watchdog calls for universities to commit to tackling essay mills, after Australian agency warns of malware redirecting students to contract cheating sites

Polling accompanied by call for Westminster government to set out more details of lifetime learning plans

Report backs post-qualification offers model, rejecting other option set out by government

Conference hears local job opportunities for partners of researchers may be just as important as institution’s scholarly prowess

Sir Adrian Smith tells MPs that scientists must redouble efforts to win European grants to offset huge drop in science funding

Universities should rethink their role as a ‘neutral but powerful force’ in times of crisis, summit hears

Countries have each made most progress in three tables related to the Sustainable Development Goals

Region retains pre-eminence in league table based on alignment with UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

UK university tops third edition of global ranking measuring institutions’ social and economic impact

Unfavourable policies stem from ‘frustrations’ over stymied reforms, former education minister says

Likely to enter government in the autumn, the party wants a big expansion of student support, 40 per cent female quotas in universities, and academic freedom at the heart of foreign policy