Europe

Shane McCorristine considers the illicit and sometimes horrifying ways teaching institutions used to secure corpses for trainee doctors to learn anatomy

Improving the career prospects of postdocs is now a priority of UK universities and research funders

Percentage of BAME and female professors has gone up but ‘there is still a long way to go’, Advance HE report shows

Corbyn’s speech on setting ‘the people’ before ‘the privileged’ expressed a mood of anti-elitism already feeding through into education policy, writes John Morgan

Monica Jitareanu and Agnes Leyrer reflect on the fight for academic freedom as the university moves from Budapest

Success stories from across Europe hold lessons for universities on removing the obstacles that block the progress of displaced students

Even dentistry and history could incorporate environmental and sustainability learning elements

Poll finds university leadership supports diversity schemes but limited buy-in from rank and file

HE institutions have offered more than 2,000 places to GSM students, but uncertainty remains over fate of others

As latest headline figures are released, concerns are raised over groups still failing to gain access to HE

Fringe event also hears v-c complain that marketisation forces universities to ‘waste’ a ‘huge’ amount of money on marketing

Education secretary’s backing for subject-level exercise before publication of TEF review prompts university warnings of ‘significant diversion of staff time’