Europe

Ucas figures show that a record proportion of students applied to higher-tariff institutions

OIA says sexual misconduct investigations too often marred by delays and poor communication

School pupils need better information on their post-16 options to avoid the risk of narrowing their university and career choices, says Hepi report

Limiting industrial action to defensive branch battles on redundancy is not enough. We need to politically challenge the HE funding model, says Rhiannon Lockley

The long-mooted Oxford-Cambridge corridor is one avenue chancellor Rachel Reeves intends to pursue in search of a way out of the economic doldrums. But where does her focus on existing strengths leave blue-skies research and levelling up? And can a sector in crisis possibly deliver? Tom Williams reports

Brunel joins staff members at East Anglia, Newcastle and Dundee to vote for strike action in the past week

Head of Scotland’s biggest university warns it may need to shutter departments and degree courses to close ‘urgent’ financial gap

Research funders and universities condemn planned yearly reductions of more than 460 million Swiss francs 

Former Warwick v-c warns ‘industrialisation’ of universities risks turning academics into ‘drones’, and says fellow leaders have done little to help

Anti-Jewish hatred more likely to be ‘overtly related’ to criticism of Israel on campuses compared with in wider society, says report

Amid financial pressures, experts warn that the practice is likely to continue for some time

Collating information from LinkedIn, ORCID profiles, Hesa and HMRC could solve data black hole over PhD careers, says research director