Europe

Institutions set to sign up to new guidelines promising to ‘prioritise the interests of applicants’

Levelling-up plans for ‘innovation accelerators’ bring hope for local decisions on R&D, but warnings against Whitehall’s ‘Stanford-Silicon Valley’ concept

Local authorities should work in close collaboration with academic institutions to make international students feel welcome, says James Pitman

University and College Union members will again walk out over pay, pensions and working conditions

Research and education partnerships, participation in events and peer review all put on hold after appeal from ministry

Tory peer Lord Wharton ‘disgusted’ by ‘attacks’ on Ukrainian-born energy tycoon, whose firm he has advised and who donated to him as MP

Ukrainian professor turned politician Inna Sovsun on coordinating student resistance and why international scholars must boycott Russia

University refuses to pay staff who have returned to work until they reschedule lectures lost to last round of walkouts

But one expert suggests closer ties with Beijing may not be as straightforward as Kremlin thinks

‘We are not excusing illegal behaviour, but we are acknowledging that it happens and appears widespread’, says Hepi paper advocating harm reduction approach

The Augar response highlights ministers’ hopes that rising costs will make certain courses economically unviable, says Alexis Brown

Frozen fee levels must rise eventually, but universities need to deliver efficiency gains through hybrid learning, says David Willetts