Europe

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’

Television historian on his failed attempt to ‘escape’ being a historian, Churchill’s ‘mixed’ legacy and why we need more black professors

Angela Rayner pledges to order regulator to ‘avoid university bankruptcies’ in bid to end Tories’ ‘failed free market experiment’

UCU branch rejects redundancies plan and blames ‘poor investment and spending decisions’ for financial woes

Paul James Cardwell considers the alternatives to staying outside the Erasmus+ programme if the UK has no national student mobility strategy 

Cardiff’s Colin Riordan says research-intensive universities will have to ‘adjust’ to straitened times

To earn the hashtag, universities must include a pledge to give due attention to curriculum design and the student experience, argues Rafe Hallett

Continental version of UK’s former Higher Education Academy among suggestions on how to boost educational standards

German-Russian conference cancelled over inclusion of acting rector of V. I. Vernadsky Crimean Federal University

White students from lower participation neighbourhoods account for fewer than one in 10 students at more than 70 per cent of English universities, report says