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Universities minister Sam Gyimah says student exchanges should continue, despite UAE’s jailing of Matthew Hedges

Pension scheme will re-run its valuation and consult universities on proposals to save defined benefits, although April’s cost increases will go ahead

Although less than half of fee income typically goes directly to teaching, English universities should not fear more openness, says Hepi study

Officials give GSM green light for public funding despite knowing of its financial worries, while ministers ‘refuse to back public universities’

MPs criticises government, which would have recouped £1.7 billion sale price in just eight years’ repayments

After spending a century in and around academia, Ukraine’s chief scientist reflects on his father’s ‘genius’, Chernobyl and how scientists helped to win the Second World War

Frustration with ‘snail’s pace’ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss targets

Major Ucea study finds ethnic minority staff suffer ‘significant pay penalties’ relative to white male staff with equivalent academic backgrounds

Jack Grove asks whether those who lead academic departments and universities can still realistically find the time to be effective researchers

Tributes paid to leading physicist who became first provost of Imperial College London

Long-time university leader is third top MSU official charged criminally with a failure to properly account for decade-long pattern of abuse by team doctor

Matthew Hedges, a PhD student specialising in Middle Eastern politics, was detained at Dubai airport on 5 May and held in solitary confinement

Students’ union leaders and university staff visit former Nazi concentration camp to help stamp out discrimination on UK campuses

Fewer than half of Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council’s Centres for Doctoral Training rated ‘good’

Data analysis by THE looks at three disciplines where the rise in firsts has been particularly high

Scholars allowed back to work might not be able not return to previous institutions or large cities, Science Academy warns

Survey also reveals citations have little influence over the content of a paper, raising questions over citation metrics

‘Aspiration is not enough’, says Sir Paul Nurse of goal to spend 2.4 per cent of GDP on R&D

Regional threats and migration policy changes could ‘jeopardise student flows’, says study

Key policy exploited by language colleges offering work permits rather than education

Several students at the University of Toronto have been ordered to repay money received during an award ceremony

Overwhelming majority of survey respondents say lack of money has held back their career

Office for Students says it will require some institutions to revise their contingency plans for closure

Tycoon’s donation is record for a US educational institution and seen as potential groundwork for 2020 presidential run

Wollongong move reflects Malaysia’s allure and hot competition back home

Robert-Jan Smits attempts to allay concerns of junior academics considering moving country because of planned publishing shift

Scholars subject to ‘threats’ and arrests in the wake of Jair Bolsonaro’s presidential victory

Universities say they must be able to supplement metrics with contextual or narrative information

Australian institution ‘playing into government’s hands’ by bankrolling stymied project

Review will assess whether process behind TEF ratings are ‘fit for use’ and whether scheme is in the public interest

Leadership tensions killed off South Australian proposal ‘but it would have failed anyway’, academic says

After consultation, proposals set to go to Parliamentary vote

‘Cost recovery’ levy defies logic, institutions argue

Legal counsel describes how she was fired after pushing for investigation into misconduct at elite US institution

Cairo institution hit hard by loss of foreign students, says president

New regulations outlined by Trump officials would hand stronger rights in some areas to those facing sexual misconduct complaints on college campuses

Boston university wants to develop one-to-one tutorial model as it creates ‘global university system’

In selecting its new bases, the massive online retailer rewarded areas rich in highly educated talent but also showed no US city yet produces enough such people

Call for university funding to be tied to institutions’ role in their local communities

Minister’s intervention self-defeating, representative body claims

Competitive funding once helped novel ideas get off the ground, but now funding ‘excellence’ is hampering new research, says Dutch institute

Several months after college removed three professors, student lawsuit outlines years of grades and promotions tied to sexual demands

Survey respondents question value of degree-level education, but most would encourage their children to enrol

Government claims universities are neglecting the regions, as relations continue to fracture

Tributes paid to pioneering authority on human-computer interaction

The UK’s first black female history professor on universities atoning for their pasts and believing in the goodness of others

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

Some grades increased at Teesside using standard formula in case that could be smoking gun on reasons for wider grade inflation

Imperial and UCL secure far more grants by value as Oxford slips back

Rising value of grants suggests that winning funding is likely to remain highly competitive

Your university’s new learning analytics service has flagged that a student is disengaging – what now?

Pensions dispute moves closer to resolution after vice-chancellors support proposals to increase employer contributions to Universities Superannuation Scheme

Public institutions vow to tackle inequality at conference

Data company beats rival Elsevier, which provided indicators for 2014 assessment

Academic at Thompson Rivers University was banned from campus after revealing his colleagues’ wide use of predatory journals

Association of Colleges head says new route should be coupled with ‘limit’ on number of students taking bachelor’s degrees

Academics staging events on everything from ‘pseudo-death’ to convict ballads claim that public events can often drive future scholarship

Analysis of ranking since 2011 suggests China is not making same ground as in research-based rankings, while Germany and South Korea have leapt forward

Academics claim Chinese government ‘has taken significantly more control’ over universities

While universities warn of ‘heavy-handed external regulation’, choice of reviewer is unlikely to raise objections