Europe

More focused approach to research funding difficult to achieve without richer, more integrated data, argue impact specialists

Debates around graduate debt have exploded in recent weeks amid concern about balances that continue to inflate even as graduates seek to pay them down. Has the system become a ‘Frankenstein’s monster’ that politicians will rush to slay? Juliette Rowsell reports

The fact that a mere few months’ hiatus imperils the futures of those without permanent posts underlines the fragility of UK biomedicine, says a researcher

Conservatoire accepts academic’s beliefs protected after he faced student boycotts owing to email questioning structural racism

Universities expanding abroad may be being over-optimistic, debate hears, as government pushes higher education exports

Time for academics to get out of their comfort zone, according to scholars who advocate using ‘timeless toy’ in the classroom

UCL settlement opens door to more ‘risk-averse’ institutions having to pay up over disrupted pandemic-era teaching, say lawyers

Former home secretary puts universities ‘on notice’ after being appointed to Nigel Farage’s ‘shadow cabinet’

Further proof of rapid growth in research master’s courses emerges, with programmes with ‘low academic requirements’ and ‘no English tests’ advertised online

Complex governance arrangements and lack of regulation of emeritus titles putting female colleagues at risk, says UCU report

Taith being wound down as UK prepares to rejoin Erasmus but academics say nation has benefitted hugely from having own programme

From climate change to geopolitics, the knowledge, skills and insights of geographers have never been more relevant, say five professors