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Plans would ‘devastate’ members’ pensions, warns UCU after actuarial analysis

Tributes paid to agricultural economist who wielded significant policy influence

Police are investigating reports that Kevin O’Gorman carried out attacks dating back to 2005

The Oxford professor of poetry on returning to ‘exotic’ Leeds, why he’s glad he didn’t study English at university, and the future of literature

Research suggests that students learn better in their native tongue, and English fails to prepare international students for a job after graduation, says Michele Gazzola

Pushed to break away from the established Turkish academy by increasing government control, Bilim Akademisi has now been accepted into the European fold

A badly understood notion of risk has created a fake crisis in university pensions that will devastate academia, argues Dennis Leech

PhD failure can have disastrous consequences for overseas students bonded to their funders, says Andrew George

Academic warns universities need to take impact of accent on credibility seriously as it has ‘demotivated’ overseas lecturers

Observers hope scrapping financial audits could lead other funders to cut down on research grant bureaucracy

Several top researchers exit Teesside after professors given individual ratings out of 32, senior academic claims

Broad-brush efforts to support female and ethnic minority academics will not address ‘multidimensional inequality’, says Warwick professor

The psychology professor on students’ mindsets, nine-day weeks and thinking in the bath 

Tributes paid to Brighton microbiologist

University of Hertfordshire job cuts add to fears staff could be forced out ahead of REF 2021

Some academics call for institutions to break all links with the country, while others say educational partnerships are key to building peace

Fellow at Scottish university at centre of investigation over presidential adviser’s alleged collusion with Russian authorities

Vice-chancellors say it is unclear whether the government will fully compensate universities after scrapping fees

Turkey’s president was unwise to evoke Animal Farm when his attack on academics has eerie echoes of George Orwell’s novel, says Umut Özkirımli

King’s College London professor says current loans system means most young people feel they have ‘no choice but to go to university’

Swedish-based academic Ahmadreza Djalali will be executed following 'grossly unfair trial', says Amnesty International

Move would make higher education more efficient and equitable, says Oxford professor

While scholars may disagree in research, they should band together in public advocacy work, says Jean Tirole 

Institutions that are well connected to ‘global transportation hubs’ rise up league tables faster, study finds

Universities in the US lead Times Higher Education’s rankings for engineering and technology and computer science; Peking and NUS are Asia’s top performers

Accurate translation apps could have a ‘major impact’ on academia, some scholars believe, but others unconvinced

Colin Bailey on a gamble to attend university that nearly backfired, and the institution that is academia’s ‘best-kept secret’

While proportion of foreign faculty at Japanese universities has increased, study finds no rise in share of leaders

With latest application for teaching licence rejected in long-running battle with authorities, time is running out to start the new academic year

After this year’s laureates were announced, 50 winners share the secrets of their success

Budapest-based institution says negotiations between Hungary and New York State have created ‘basis for an agreement’

Some researchers worry that lack of female laureates devalues prestigious awards

Former HEA chief executive hailed for ‘vision and persistence’ in changing teaching policy and practice

Intense polarisation of Turkish diaspora, plus online harassment, means refugee scholars feel they are being watched

Unlike in the UK and the US, German graduates tend to vote in quite similar ways to other citizens. But not in the case of the AfD, writes David Matthews

Multinational research teams can now bid for money in any scientific area, although funders do not expect security-sensitive projects

Carol S. Dweck is named as first laureate of education research prize for her work on the ‘growth mindset’

Firm steps up collaboration with university as world’s biggest tech companies race to harness quantum physics

Berkeley scholar of the Renaissance remembered

The Warburg professor discusses folk practice, emptying Milwaukee’s bins, and bargain cinema tickets

Australian Catholic University defends hiring of professorial fellows as a tool to build partnerships

University leaders frustrated by lack of clarity on higher education in party manifestos

Eric Mazur, father of the ‘flipped classroom’, says rethinking assessment is the next frontier

US physician also tells summit that, while governments change, ‘science goes on’

David Malan had encouraged students to watch video recordings of lectures

Two UK institutions lead our ranking of the best universities for the first time in its history, with Oxford holding on to the number one spot for the second year in a row, while Cambridge has risen to second place

Academic whose writing fused law and literature remembered

Amid growing indifference to the public value of universities, the LSE’s Minouche Shafik suggests four ways to restore confidence and pride in the academy

It is time to consider how we can stop senior academics bullying their way on to research papers, says Trisha Greenhalgh

Pioneering neuroscientist who analysed the brain of Albert Einstein remembered

Australian capital emerging as branch campus hub for country’s universities

Huang Jing was accused of ‘covertly advancing the agenda of a foreign country at Singapore’s expense’

Paper highlights possible negative impact of performance-related funding and for-profit universities on widening participation  

Tributes paid to land law expert who became Leicester pro vice-chancellor

The Humboldt University of Berlin, the historical home of interdisciplinarity, is experimenting with new ways to encourage a broader perspective 

Vitriol directed at Cambridge professor of Classics on Twitter is part of wider battle to politicise diversity, says Conrad Brunstrom

Professor cites Soviet achievements as evidence of how detachment from mainstream scholarship can foster innovation

Neurobiologist questions whether academia has reached ‘peak sting’ in its battle with predatory journals

German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?

Investigative journalist Emilia Sercan defied threats to uncover high-level ring of fraudulent PhDs