Europe

First post-Brexit figures show limited demand in Europe for bespoke visa scheme designed to bring top researchers to the UK

Blow to new UK research agency as Peter Highnam steps back for ‘personal reasons’

EU governments told to reconcile contradictory national rules if cornerstone of popular alliance-building programme is to be realised

Economic uncertainty may have encouraged students to stay in education despite campus closures, says UK statistics body

Universities will be told what approaches to online education fail to meet Office for Students' requirements as government pushes for return to face-to-face education

Former minister who has called for focus on India warns sector not to create new ‘over-reliance’

Grassroots effort by linguists seeks to lift up non-native English speakers, many of whom cannot afford professional proofreaders

Tory former minister who abolished binary divide says hierarchy should be on ‘educational quality’ only – and sector ‘still not properly accountable’

Science committee hears evidence of ‘shocking’ levels of under-representation of ethnic minority experts at research council meetings

Philosopher A. C. Grayling says scholars should not fight digitisation but should seek to protect academic freedom and avoid the creation of a gig economy

Informatics faculty turns its hand to creating tools to help civilians and hamper Russian attacks

Some institutions lost about a tenth of their non-academic workforce in main year of pandemic