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Science minister Amanda Solloway announces review of UK’s main research assessment exercise

Biomedical research charity to focus efforts on infectious diseases, mental health and global heating

Pushed by Covid, academic authors see rare need to offer political voice

Environmental experts also more likely to have taken steps to offset or reduce impact of travel

Legislative amendment sets out punishments for stealing or assisting stealing of someone else’s identity in university entrance exams

Students required to stay at term-time addresses during two-week ‘firebreak’

Sunderland scheme provides PGCE students with experience while supporting employees juggling work and homeschooling

New ARC funding arrangements will also redirect more money to applied research

Higher education well down the priority pecking order as resounding Labour win pushes policy into the centre

Critics says that 60, or even 65, is too young to end an academic career

Staff criticise proposals to shutter Institute of Commonwealth Studies and Institute of Latin American Studies

University denies impropriety, as faculty groups urge transparent review

Sydney PhD graduate reflects on how his surprise disability gave rise to an academic career and better prospects for fellow sufferers

Survey from Spain suggests that as schools closed, women were less able to catch up on work and dramatically dropped hours spent on article writing and submitting

University is also told to pay Paul Ewart almost £30,000 in compensation 

Institutions have long framed gender inequality as a problem with women, and have been ‘strangely silent’ about masculinity in academia, professor argues

Yoshihide Suga’s rejection of appointees to the Science Council of Japan may be opening shot in ‘symbolic war’, says professor 

Forensic analysis of citations within leading scientific periodicals reveals alarming lack of rigour in academic referencing

Four archetypal career tracks exist for business school academics − management, research, academic entrepreneurship and teaching − and you probably need to choose one

New guidance suggests UK universities could introduce Chatham House rule for seminars to protect recruits from countries with repressive governments

Department for Education says details on when universities must stop in-person teaching will be released ‘shortly’

Freshers and international recruits stay away as overall enrolment drops 4 per cent

As resentment simmers over increasing student cases in cities, expert says institutions must work hard demonstrate their worth to their communities

Immigration minister signals dramatic brightening of departmental tone after May era as new ‘streamlined’ student visa route launches

Tributes paid to ‘a man of many worlds’ who was also ‘a uniquely versatile intellectual’

The human rights barrister and author reflects on his path into international law, the university course that changed history and what the UK’s ‘lazy’ and ‘narcissistic’ prime minister could learn from Keir Starmer

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

Front-line workers left carrying the can for chaotic start of term, says union

Three-year deal will allow researchers to publish papers without paying additional article-processing charges

Disease spread from campuses follows poor guidance and little funding

Students who up their engagement later on struggle to catch the early starters, says study

Academics warn that staff, and students, are at risk of a debilitating illness that research suggests can last for months

Colleagues remain baffled at security bureau’s exclusion of Australian literature expert

Sage document from last month says closing universities would have reduced transmission rates

In-person instruction during Covid linked to Republican states and whiter student bodies

Documents reveal Sage advised UK government in September that halting in-person teaching would help prevent spread of Covid-19

Many early career researchers saw their working hours fall, but one in nine scientists worked 60 hours a week, says Vitae study

Be more candid about the nature of your foreign collaborations and think about your own moral responsibilities, Australian parliamentarians warn universities

Students and academics doubt government directive will shift long-standing power dynamic

Why assessment should not be an afterthought in the teaching process − and how to make sure it serves students as well as possible

Unrest over return of face-to-face teaching on UK campuses pushes staff-management relations to breaking point

Andrew Noble says students should study locally at undergraduate level and then travel to Britain for postgraduate courses

V-c says university’s in-house ‘assurance and enhancement’ led to identification and resolution of international flaws

Universities minister Michelle Donelan says outbreaks confirmed on 68 campuses

Institutions have begun cancelling diversity, equity and inclusion programmes in response to an executive order, but critics say it amounts to censorship

New code of conduct says universities should adopt procedures for confidential reporting of threats to freedom and safety as a result of international collaboration

Stanford University professors whose ideas have been used for multibillion-dollar telecoms auctions take this year’s award

Wellington to allow overseas learners back earlier than expected, but only a select few will qualify

The profiles of this year’s Nobelists suggest scientists from newer, innovative institutions may soon overshadow those from more historic universities

Students have been arriving from key markets such as China and India, but flexible start dates mean final numbers are a long way from certain

American Association of University Professors opens formal investigations into institutions accused of cutting jobs without consultation

Government claims it is seeking to root out corruption and free up extra money for Covid-19 measures

Vice-chancellor faces fresh charges of acting outside authority after old allegations deemed not ‘material’

Today is World Mental Health Day, and Matthew Flinders argues that although changes in individual behaviour can help, systemic change is really needed to ease the mental health burden on academics

Physicist Brian Cox, author Bernardine Evaristo and former Ucas chief executive Mary Curnock Cook also recognised

Liverpool becomes latest UK university to halt in-person tuition due to Covid-19

Women on fixed-term contracts twice as likely to have moved forward or delayed plans to start a family compared with permanently employed

Warning comes as report on past 25 years of efforts on issue highlight the major challenges that remain

Threats to environment too great to leave education to scientists alone, says Harvard professor Fernando Reimers