Europe

Academics should not be afraid to challenge the wisdom of requiring institutions to make financial amends for their past links to slavery, says Robert Dingwall

The academy has long had a rich vein of children’s literature running through it, with J. R. R. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll and C. S. Lewis all being Oxford dons. Matthew Reisz finds that the seam is still producing modern-day gems

St Mary’s University, Twickenham found that unconditional offers were unlikely to benefit recruitment efforts

Department tasks KPMG with surveying universities on their teaching costs, in work for Augar review

Academics say that online recordings must be emphasised as a supplementary resource, not an alternative to lectures, or some students lose out

Sponsors that do not meet rules should have ethical approval for future experiments withheld, says Science and Technology Committee

EU-backed project using facial-, voice- and keystroke-identification technology enters final stages

Authoritarian populist governments prevent bloc from taking action to protect academic freedom, say scholars

UUK and CBI back transformation of apprenticeship levy into ‘skills levy’

Liberal institution has been left in legal limbo for 18 months by Viktor Orbán’s government

UK universities ‘engaged in intensive planning’ for no-deal Brexit impact across range of activities

Uclan role in Preston Model sheds light on what a Labour government could mean for universities, beyond the fees pledge