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David Green says exposing pay disparities within universities may encourage removing lower-paid staff from direct payroll

Adam Tickell acknowledges university has ‘failed’ staff and students in the past but says improving well-being is his top priority

Amherst students incredulous about going for days without services they consider absolute necessities

Labor has made an ‘unequivocal commitment’ to restore uncapped funding, vice-chancellors say

Failure to reach 50 per cent turnout threshold on pay ballot and exit of leader Sally Hunt must open the door for debate on future, union leaders agree

‘Why is being incredibly successful a problem?’ asks Universities Australia chair Margaret Gardner

New standards and guidelines for quality assurance in Africa aim to drive up standards on the continent, but can they overcome divisions in language, national politics and bureaucratic red tape?

Andres Manuel López Obrador’s controversial proposal could force lawmakers to reconsider the legal age of adulthood

Governing body neglecting its responsibilities, says union branch president and former senate member

Separate survey uncovers widespread opposition to recent research funding cuts

Times Higher Education editor John Gill asks Toby Walsh about the strengths that universities can bring to artificial intelligence research

Plans for Park College seen as a power grab by central management

Deputy minister says new law will open universities ‘to the needs of the people’, after it sparked mass student protests

University and College Union leader steps down with immediate effect after 12 years in charge

Community attitudes questionnaire also finds that Australians want caps on international students but not domestic students

Universities UK fears cost of assessment could nudge £250,000 per provider

Data analysis from THE suggests different drivers are coming together to alter universities’ UK-international mix

US study suggests hiring panels may offer worse terms to female scientists seeking jobs at their partner’s institution than to equally qualified solo candidates

After years of asking, National Academy of Sciences makes integrity push across university silos

Global study tied to gains in grades and graduate rates, though affordability remains a major obstacle

Seventy per cent of voting UCU members support walking out, but 41 per cent turnout is too low for action

Hundreds of students voted against creation of Jewish society on campus

Sir Fraser Stoddart says the most rewarding element of his work has been supervising research students, who supported him personally after his wife’s death

The publisher has reported steady growth and profit margins of more than a third but warned of threat to business from open access

Business and academia accuse each other of ‘more aggressive’ assertion of intellectual property rights

Party’s Lifelong Learning Commission will look at longer-term ‘structures’ in contrast to government’s ‘short-term’ review, says Gordon Marsden

Australian and New Zealand open access advocates want more attention paid to ‘green’ model

Many presidents have pursued their careers just at one institution, raising questions about management skills, report finds

Brexit copyright issues may prevent researchers from consulting Spare Rib, which for two decades served as ‘the most popular voice of women’s liberation’ in the UK

Admissions officers wrote of favouring ‘brown babies’, campaign group reveals

Researchers must ‘put on the gloves’ and bring the fight to their critics, says Arizona State professor

English providers will have to enrol fewer privileged students if the sector is not allowed to expand, regulator says

Tributes paid to oceanographer who played key role in Allied war effort during the Second World War

Foreign faculty’s dissatisfaction adds to the lure of Chinese recruitment push

Study estimates that carbon footprint of global student mobility is comparable to annual emissions of Tunisia

Archive of tweets linked to St Petersburg-based Internet Research Agency reveals scale of disinformation attempts around free speech and ‘left bias’ controversies

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

Without devices, classes fostered engaged, active learning, writes Ioannis Costas Batlle

One thousand PhD places to be created over next five years

ETH Zurich’s learning sciences expert discusses his own ‘cut-throat’ schooling, why lecturing fails, and how students can fail ‘productively’

Universities must do a better job of showing how their research results in real-life benefits for society, Charles Clarke has argued

South Korea and China are fastest improving countries in region, as Australia and Japan fail to keep pace

Australia’s chief scientist says universities can’t be expected to respond to the fast-paced changes in labour market demands

Law students will undertake work experience at campus-based firm in each year of their degree

Conference hears that nationalist politics could hamper efforts to tackle pandemics

More than 30 institutions from 13 territories in running for inaugural awards

Research benefits often unforeseeable but must be communicated

Research for the public good being subverted by geopolitical ‘zero-sum competition’, says former LSE professor

Marketisation and intense competition a key underlying factor in spate of senior departures and suspensions, experts argue

Little sympathy among scheme’s architects for suggestion that embargoed dissemination should continue to be supported

Key working group no longer active and grade inflation consultation makes no mention of initiative

Self-perceived levels of impostor syndrome in women remain equally high among senior academics, study finds

Country’s £93 million initiative aims to make it a ‘beacon of academia’, but scholars question whether learners will want to go

Vice-chancellors are leading contract negotiations, allowing universities to make more demands on open access and costs

Turning to dance may help scientists communicate their findings to those who distrust experts, claims competition winner

American Association for the Advancement of Science accompanied by global efforts to better inform policymaking

Institutions that win performance-related funding will fall behind anyway, university group claims

Conservative Party Human Rights Commission calls for investigation into whether Communist-supported centres are being used to intimidate students or restrict freedom of expression

Weitermachen Sanssouci may be the first film to tackle the woes of research assessment, casualisation and an obsession with student employability

Academics highlight brain drain of researchers and loss of international research partners as concerns in wake of latest government ‘attack on autonomy’