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While China’s intensification puts regional rivals in the shade, it casts a spotlight on progress in the special administrative region

Vice-chancellors turn on businesses for not doing enough to educate and retrain their workforce

Ramsay partnership provides ‘a unique opportunity and substantial uplift in funding’, university leadership says

Tragedies exacerbated by lack of research and information sharing, coroner’s study finds

Funding agency forced to deny scholarship candidates will be required to take an ideology test

Separate classes, often in English, mean European students are failing to learn their host country’s tongue, new book finds

Invitation of two far-right speakers to the University of Siegen has prompted protests and counter-claims of censorship

PhD scholarships in the sights as cutbacks more than double analysts’ expectations

Graduate programmes tipped to lure disillusioned millennials

Equity ‘synonymous’ with excellence, creating the pre-conditions for multi-dimensional learning, conference hears

Universities beg government to cancel cut planned for mini-budget

Job security a dream for most higher education staff as casualisation escalates

Increased statistical evaluation will pinpoint the educational ‘treatments’ that work, says Yidan prizewinner

Universities could also be forced to justify the quality and quantity of their research

Move by party tipped to form next government triggers speculation over creation of teaching-only universities

Country will also consider creating teaching-focused professorships to stop academics being overloaded by responsibilities

Fifteen institutions secure bronze accreditation as Athena SWAN heads south

Concocted claims reflect an American ‘preoccupation’, says former Melbourne vice-chancellor

ProfHub plans to let applicants rate universities – and allow anonymous leaks – about the academic selection process

Sector leaders fear consultation could be cover for cutbacks

As reviews pile on reviews, academics urged to get on board

Hyped technology has delivered mixed access benefits, minor cost reduction and poor quality, conference hears

‘Cost recovery’ levy defies logic, institutions argue

Competitive funding once helped novel ideas get off the ground, but now funding ‘excellence’ is hampering new research, says Dutch institute

In what could become a model for the rest of the country, Corvinus University of Budapest will have to rely on tuition fees and endowment interest

Government attempts to protect regional institutions by restricting growth in capital

Australian universities may have to wait months to find out how much funding they will forfeit

New centre could supply the ingredients to bring home-grown Fields medallists back, says director

Research reportedly picking up the tab for Australian government’s regional cash splash

A downturn last decade offers a textbook example of the risk universities face, say Melbourne researchers

Response to row over vetoing of humanities grants could result in curiosity-driven scholarship being pushed out

Many students who do not complete their course at the first attempt often return to their studies, say experts

Too many institutions fail to abide by their own statements of values, leaders warn

Australia’s freeze on teaching grants protected struggling institutions, not education budget

Record revenue fuelled by large foreign intakes at the country’s biggest universities

Regional institutions hardest hit as domestic cap dovetails with intense competition for foreigners

Education minister refuses to rule out future interventions in grant awarding process

University of Guerrero rector seeks support from military police after six violent attempts to abduct women are reported on campus

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

NUS vice-provost on crusade against built-in obsolescence

Storm of protest across academia against Simon Birmingham's scuttling of humanities grants worth A$4.2 million (£2.3 million) 

Tokyo Medical University not alone in rigging entrance exams to exclude women

Older partner left with regrets, as youngster pulls plug on mooted marriage

Negotiations unable to reach agreement on ‘threshold issues and strategic risks’

Regional universities ‘would be biggest victims’ of restrictions on city study

Government support for rural university initiative may not get it across the line

The animosity towards higher education seen in the UK is likely to head Down Under, vice-chancellor warns

Students say they have been dismissed from courses and turned over to police following a wave of mass demonstrations

As Australia’s science stars mount the red carpet, critics condemn falling government funding

Daniela Tejada says government support for Matthew Hedges, who has been held in solitary confinement for five months, has been ‘ineffective’

New projects at two Sydney universities show move towards multidisciplinary scholarship

Don’t let immediate employability focus undermine ‘blue sky teaching’, chancellor tells counterparts

Post-study work rights are not just about luring international enrolments, conference hears

Australian fears of official curbing of student visas ‘overblown’, experts say

Government also strikes partnerships with London and French institutions to build skills in hydrocarbon production

‘If we don’t get this right, we are in trouble,’ says university of applied learning chief

Perceptions of quality keep US and UK in the game, major survey finds

University offers 15 per cent discount to applicants who have already been offered support by another institution

Fear and shame deter foreigners from reporting attacks, University of Canberra study finds

‘Current policy climate’ may be a ‘contributing factor’, says Council of Graduate Schools