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Lockdown comes days before Eid religious festival

Often dismissed as an inordinately expensive quality assurance tool, ERA could become a gatekeeper for university registration

Scientific leaders and politicians have embraced calls to reduce the stress and precarity faced by researchers. Jack Grove examines some radical proposals

V-c ‘declared potential conflicts of interest and recused herself’ from deals with UCFB and IGPP, says university

Country’s excellence strategy has pushed German universities to dial back rivalry and instead coordinate their research plans

When academics accept stints in politicians’ offices, everybody benefits, says outgoing Australian ministerial adviser

Prime minister’s announcement comes as most universities move into examinations period

Industrial action continues despite university reducing number of planned redundancies and revising selection criteria

While Australia’s new-look certificates deliver a sugar hit to institutional coffers, experts question the long-term benefits

With a $300 billion price tag, campaign promise met with scepticism – and long-term optimism

New chair and ministers have scope to reshape regulator, as leadership and board roles potentially open up at politically fraught time

Attempt to find software flaws points up need for researchers to see beyond code to the people affected, academics say

Inspiring stories from alumni of the Scholar Rescue Fund reveal how they have enriched both host and home academic communities

‘It is important that we clearly stand by scientists’ says Armin Laschet, as Germany gears up for September election

Decision will impact other tools that relied on Microsoft’s database and raises questions about relying on private firms, critics say

Public universities could be ‘hit beyond repair’ in fallout from pandemic catastrophe, experts warn

Service for local companies grabs spotlight as potential aid to competitiveness

New campus to be set up with industry-friendly ‘hubs’, not faculties 

New alliance of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield will put them on more equal footing with golden triangle institutions when seeking investment for start-ups, says adviser

Three in 10 respondents to UCU survey say that they have experienced homophobic language in workplace

Network aims to highlight problem of gender-based harassment in the field, support victims and encourage institutions to improve safeguarding

Professor accuses university of ‘aligning itself with a propaganda narrative that is not intellectually defensible’

Lawmakers and activists work to forbid talk of enduring inequities

Students who take promotional jobs could face massive fines and prison time, Australian regulator says

Report criticises newly appointed leader but says use of term in student meeting did not make him a racist

Karen O’Brien to head north following retirement of Stuart Corbridge

Winners of top academic prizes to be fast-tracked through immigration process

Richard Jones has chance to put into practice influential theories on boosting regions through research and development with role in new Innovation GM

Country accelerates overseas marketing in light of fallout from Brexit and Covid

Results show impact that ‘diverse’ sector has on communities, but questions remain on project’s future use and links to funding

Australian budget wish list also includes more research funding and extended transition funding for the new fee and subsidy regime

University and College Union ‘grey-lists’ institution, asking academics to refuse to have any dealings with it

Universities Superannuation Scheme will develop ‘meaningful short-, medium- and long-term targets’ towards carbon neutrality

Choice of Cordray affirms high-profile focus on problem of college affordability

At least 10 Australian universities in the red, after three Victorian institutions notch A$50 million deficits

Concerns mount over impact of quarantine fee on recruitment, but expert says government should shoulder the cost

Expert warns pandemic could exacerbate stresses on PhD mental health

As Brussels tries again to push forward the European research area, the bloc remains fractured by investment levels, researcher mobility and national rules

New study by elite university group says open-ended contracts, not rolling one-year deals, should become ‘norm’ for UK research staff

US universities rush to meet student demand driven by growth of SpaceX, Virgin Galactic and Blue Origin

Concentrating funding on top universities around Beijing and Shanghai risks alienating students forced to settle for less exalted institutions, researchers say

Credit analysts warn of mass job losses, struggling peripheral businesses and homogenisation of the student mix

Bath academics say journals should standardise conflict of interest policies, but Philip Morris-funded foundation warns against boycott

Iwan Davies says Wales’ partnership with Vietnam has provided opportunities ‘one university could never ever have achieved’

Former Huddersfield lecturer claimed his mental health suffered due to increased workload of mandatory doctoral study 

Gender concerns leave MIT-Harvard star lone unconfirmed choice for presidential Cabinet

Death of fellow student marks resumption of nation’s toll after year-long break from Covid

Institutions’ investment in fundraising and alumni relations declined during pandemic, says report

Train up translation specialists and fix anomalies that discourage collaboration, Australian representative group says

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

Clare College rejects recommendation to pay student compensation, in first-of-its-kind case

Mandates likely to accelerate in days, once autumn acceptance deadline passes

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

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

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