Europe

Appointment may reflect shift towards a ‘harder-edged, more hawkish’ attitude towards research collaboration, say experts

Academics say mobilisation gives universities a powerful tool, with learners who get expelled facing being sent to the Ukrainian front

French ministry wants universities to use unallocated funds to cover up to 500 per cent increases in energy costs

Princeton ‘lifer’ moves to Cambridge without ever totally shaking off her outsider status

European finance ministers told to abandon ‘absurd’ plan to shift unspent Horizon funding elsewhere in their squeezed 2023 budget

Claim universities feed students ‘anti-British history’ was ‘cheap wisecrack’ when ‘mature debate’ needed, says ex-No 10 adviser

Union achieves key aim of 2017 Bell review of sector organisations

Compelling stories of how foreign-born founders drive economic prosperity are more likely to convince policymakers about the need to embrace overseas students, says Alice Gast, who recently stepped down as president of Imperial College London

But political scientists and politician-scientist say the country’s rightward shift poses ‘no risk’ to academic freedom or international recruitment

New York-based manga comic expert claims withdrawal of Karl Andersson’s controversial paper may ‘stifle innovation and scholarship’ in future

Minister’s comments at Conservative conference reignite culture wars over universities

Strong critic of Chinese human rights abuses takes on brief after hiatus of several months