Europe

Richard Davies and three others on leave while institution carries out an internal investigation

Doctoral student at was sentenced to life in prison on spying charges

Government poll condemned as insensitive

Analysis of impact of doctoral training centres funded by Economic and Social Research Council prompts further questions over approach to postgraduate learning

Oxford’s Dorothy Bishop says spread of funding would be largely unchanged

Conference hears how the biases of historic collections need to be addressed

Universities minister Sam Gyimah says student exchanges should continue, despite UAE’s jailing of Matthew Hedges

Pension scheme will re-run its valuation and consult universities on proposals to save defined benefits, although April’s cost increases will go ahead

Frustration with ‘snail’s pace’ progress across continent leads Irish government to back financial sanctions against universities that miss targets

MPs criticises government, which would have recouped £1.7 billion sale price in just eight years’ repayments

Although less than half of fee income typically goes directly to teaching, English universities should not fear more openness, says Hepi study

Officials give GSM green light for public funding despite knowing of its financial worries, while ministers ‘refuse to back public universities’