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Problem threatens to delay recovery after losses in grant support and obstacles for young scientists

Education Committee says Office for Students must take tougher action on dearth of disadvantaged white pupils entering higher education

Expert applauds new measures to boost ERA’s rigour and transparency, but questions ‘softly, softly’ approach

Politician turned coal boss pulls out of appointment as Australian university’s chancellor

Boris Johnson will head new expert panel, with Sir Patrick Vallance leading Downing Street science unit

NSW universities spent more money sacking people than they lost in international student revenue

Charles Sturt a ‘stronger institution’ after addressing regulatory and governance issues

Dartmouth case seen as exposing national unpreparedness for online exams that predated Covid and still needs fixing

Scholars, fed up with decades of living from contract to contract, force government to remove video that seemed to celebrate insecurity

Former Tory minister warns using ELQ rule in government’s planned skills revolution would block careers in key sectors like fashion

‘Hua Zhibing’ to study alongside and interact with human learners

Social media photos reported, while outsider in conservative state bemoans loss of civil debate

Still much to be said for old-fashioned media that operate ‘at the speed of human thinking’, book suggests

Australian review finds that the switch from clinical practice into the ‘sausage factory’ of academia can elevate stress levels – even among the most stressed

University accused of destroying notes from a meeting, which it says is standard practice

Nationwide survey shows overall gains in capacity, enrolment and gender balance

‘Unwillingness to confront’ violence against women a global problem in higher education, British Council conference hears

Liverpool and Leicester plan to scale back moderation and external examining, and to use algorithms to generate grades

Modest programme spells hope for tens of thousands stranded offshore

Using different models to bridge divide, universities and colleges could move towards more unified tertiary education systems

Mandatory reporting of abuse allegations and anonymous whistleblowing that have led to action in US should be considered, say campaigners

Analysis of data from Scottish universities provides policymakers with food for thought ahead of next term

Going Global session also told that funders should pool resources to ensure longer-term stability  

Institutions face tough choices and often fierce criticism in trying to make reparation for their tainted origins

Polish professor warns of increasing ‘tension’ between national research funding and global science

Jury can’t agree on Tennessee associate professor Anming Hu after FBI admits pressure campaign to get him to spy

Data suggest research articles from commercial firms took a tumble in 2020 as academia boosted its output  

Remote meetings and recruitment appear to have yielded big savings, but long-term model not yet clear

Critics allege that political interference has caused delays to appointments  

Proliferation of preprints in Covid era has led non-profit publisher to post reviews from clinicians on online papers

UK angling to put itself at front of the queue

Former UK foreign policy adviser fears countries could lose ‘monopoly’ over accreditation for failing to inject critical thinking, curiosity, emotional intelligence and empathy into higher education

Rating scale for Excellence in Research for Australia to be recalibrated, with Indigenous studies incorporated as a field in its own right

In seeking Biden perspective, nation’s top court follows process that comforts affirmative action backers

Decades of leniency encouraged scores of final-year students to fake their overseas placements and go ‘sightseeing’

Report from Clarivate also raises fundamental questions about how disciplinary priorities are shaped  

Professors and institutions admit worry as at least 20 US states move to block curricula exploring systemic biases

Lisa Roberts highlights increasing state school admissions as key priority and rejects ‘death of the lecture’ strategy

Chinese students bring benefits but universities are too reliant on them and Canberra should ‘take a harder line’, respondents say

Efforts will only go so far without changes to ‘mindsets’ in Asia, says editor of new book

Sustainable development expert Jeffrey Sachs also warns against rise of a ‘monopoly Amazon university’

Tally of cases since 2018 largely stems from anonymous hotline and mostly involves sexual misconduct

Universities UK on collision course with unions, which warn reforms could cost members thousands of pounds annually in retirement

After decade tackling Indigenous mistreatment, nation and its universities widening racial agenda, says Afua Cooper

Male academics assessed more highly if they work at a top-ranked university but same bias does not materialise for female scholars

Australian minister’s call for specialisation fosters speculation that rejected idea could be resurrected

Regulator extends existing awards, with results of reformed evaluation not due to be published until 2023

Nearly 60 per cent of four-year doctoral universities report gains in overseas student applications for autumn

As Conservative ministers attack sector expansion, MPs support it locally – offering potential route for sector ‘dialogue’ with party

Recent examples explore everything from radical vaudeville to the legacy of slavery

Trump-era rule means that visas can be blocked based on undergraduate university choices 

Academics fear California-based company is gaining monopoly on plagiarism detection services

University of Oxford’s Sarah Gilbert and Andrew Pollard among those receiving royal recognition alongside chair of review of post-18 education in England

Learners to get jabs in line with guidance from the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation

NCAA wants federal intervention as states move to allow profit-making by collegiate sports stars

Obstacles to finalising association agreements for EU’s research programme now removed, say continental observers

Education secretary says university degree is not ‘the only way to a good job’

Parliamentary resolution seen as culmination of a campaign against gender, race and migration scholarship

University-founded institutions were to have been combined with vocational schools

Apparent backtracking comes after protests on streets of Hungarian capital