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Experiment finds groups of students came up with twice as many ideas in classes around midday

Walkouts at 61 universities set to go ahead as chair’s casting vote backs UUK reforms

Average salary of university leader in country stands at A$890,000 (£509,000)

World’s biggest university investment programme will award billions of dollars using a new internal competition for quality-related funding, say experts

Analysis of public sector pay claims that university leaders are paid ‘well below’ those in similar leadership positions

New report highlights growing crackdown on dissident academics and increased political interference in campus affairs

National Science Foundation report says overseas undergraduate recruitment is down 2.2 per cent, with a 5.5 per cent drop at postgraduate level

Fourteen days of strike action set to begin on 22 February if talks fail, affecting 61 universities

Loss of bursaries is not only cause of dramatic fall in applications for UK nursing courses, say university leaders

Anthropologist uses T-shirts and tweets to highlight under-representation of black women in academia

Shift towards greater accountability comes as Trump administration moves in opposite direction

Scholars in English and other disciplines need to engage with big challenges facing planet, conference hears

In first public appearance since his appointment, Sam Gyimah claims Labour’s plan to scrap fees is unrealistic

Technology behind Bitcoin is not just hype, say advocates, but could prevent data tampering and improve reproducibility

Working with pen and paper and cut off from the outside world, Ali Kaya wrote three papers, re-deriving physical formulas from scratch

University of Paris-Saclay will incorporate ethical considerations into research on emerging technologies 

Stephen Toope describes public speculation about Maha Abdelrahman’s involvement in the case as ‘inaccurate, damaging and potentially dangerous’

‘Trained observers’ can help selection committees stamp out implicit bias against women, Europe’s biggest highest education institutions say

Office for Students asked to tackle huge pay awards given to leaders of private providers

Senior academics express fears for younger colleagues as strike deadline looms

The politics lecturer talks Corbyn, computer games and reggae music

President’s broadside against Boğaziçi University raises questions over Islamisation of institutions and international links

Institutional leaders tell survey that current avalanche of criticism ‘lacks substance’

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

Baroness Deech tells parliamentary committee that UK universities are ‘complicit’ in censoring lawful speech while giving hate preachers access to students

Initiative is part of bid to tackle impending shortage of 700,000 university technicians expected in UK by 2020

Almost two-fifths of employed university leavers were working part-time in 2017 

Ibero-American University of Science and Technology closed after an investigation found the institution to have debts of about 4 billion pesos

More than half of new budget will go to the University of Luxembourg

Hotbed of student protest may struggle in future because of lack of interest in committee roles

Donation from investor Bill Miller will create new professorships and provide student support

London institution thought to be the first in UK to launch open-access publishing platform, as academics move away from traditional scholarly journals

Union takes aim at ‘out of touch’ leaders after accounts show outgoing Kent head got £45,000 uplift in final year

Companies blame a ‘social shift’ for young people viewing campus as their only option, but others see positives in student boom

Jordanian-established institution has fallen short of recruitment expectations

Interim candidate confirmed in post on permanent basis at new umbrella body

'Mind-boggling' that the Department for Education does not regularly collect data on attendance, committee hears

Three student candidates deemed 'appointable' to regulator's board were overlooked in favour of engineering undergraduate

Data from the THE World University Rankings suggest Western nations such as the UK are making good use of limited resources, but what are the side effects?

Experts warn that prospective recruits may choose to study elsewhere if they do not feel welcome

As part of a US initiative, undergraduates are given assignments to create articles, helping to develop critical appraisal skills

Mathematicians at Imperial College London will have access to French research grants through new collaboration

Privately run vocational courses likely to be big beneficiaries of Gratuidad, which supports poorer students

University staff in both sectors also report deteriorating workplace conditions

‘Romance is not dead, it's just behind a paywall’

Researchers have linked the rise in unrealistic expectations among students with the rise in mental health issues

Former first lady was awarded doctorate from University of Zimbabwe two months after enrolling

Figures from 2017 Employer Satisfaction Survey raise concerns about the value of some degrees

Incident seen as symptomatic of increasingly anti-intellectual turn encouraged by the government

Economics scholar estimates impact of new excise tax on university endowments 

Immigration minister who led crackdown on ‘abuse’ of student visa system says it ‘serves nobody’ to pretend students do not count towards figures

Special requests divert women from more productive activities, study warns

As Brexit threatens funding shortfall, European Commission appears convinced research is better done continent-wide

Latest Hesa data show that share of students with top degree has risen significantly since 2012-13

Alpacas may be one of the symbols of Peru, but disease has hitherto ravaged a species essential to fibre production

Former Downing Street policy guru Nick Timothy says former education secretary resisted university funding review and potential tuition fee cuts

Baroness Amos criticises government anti-terror strategy Prevent in appearance before parliamentarians

Annual event run by honorary lecturer featured white supremacist speakers and was attended by Toby Young 

Event celebrates achievements of often under-recognised individuals and teams

The Australian robotics researcher and award-winning teacher discusses the importance of hands-on learning and why robots won’t be taking our jobs any time soon