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Hepi-Advance HE survey finds growing frustration with UK university courses in a year of major upheaval

Oxford emails reveal efforts to block publication of DPhil thesis that was deposited almost six years after her viva

Fields essential to country’s development could become ‘unviable’ as faculty are forced out, observers say

Ex-BHP chief executive and current Shell chair defends himself as ‘committed to net zero’ in pre-appointment hearing

‘Patronising’ to expect lower standards from students from disadvantaged backgrounds, says OfS following newspaper report

Asian universities further boost their performance in list of world’s best universities founded during the past half-century

Institution confident of legal victory, but political costs loom in conservative state

Covid redundancy terms include non-disclosure and non-disparagement obligations, as corporate HR culture captures universities

Secret lists of preferred papers have been circulated prior to computer science meetings to help favoured scholars get ahead, says US professor

Many UK institutions say they do not plan to return to pre-pandemic methods and will use next academic year to test new approaches

Plans to reduce teaching grant are one of ‘biggest attacks on arts and entertainment in English universities in living memory’

New programme for universities modelled on version that increased racial equity within NIH’s own laboratories

Governments have focused on building up a lavishly funded research elite, but the forced switch online has made them realise losers in this system cannot cope

Young researchers forced to interact online ‘do not feel part of a team’ and may leave sector, educationalist tells summit

After criticism that it failed to declare Peter Daszak’s work with the Wuhan Institute of Virology, journal has also ‘recused’ zoologist from its coronavirus origins taskforce

Action against Bard College threatens novel liberal arts degree and widens Putin crackdown on higher education

Covid has created a platform for institutional newcomers to ‘leapfrog’ established frontrunners

Koç University dismissed media scholar Amir Hetsroni for ‘inappropriate behaviour’, but he suspects a link to his private criticism of Turkey’s government

Analysis by THE shows how specialist institutions would bear brunt of impact

Education Committee says Office for Students must take tougher action on dearth of disadvantaged white pupils entering higher education

Problem threatens to delay recovery after losses in grant support and obstacles for young scientists

The pandemic has not hit all students’ learning equally. Anna McKie talks to two experts on how to spot those who may have fallen behind and help them get up to speed

Expert applauds new measures to boost ERA’s rigour and transparency, but questions ‘softly, softly’ approach

Politician turned coal boss pulls out of appointment as Australian university’s chancellor

Boris Johnson will head new expert panel, with Sir Patrick Vallance leading Downing Street science unit

NSW universities spent more money sacking people than they lost in international student revenue

Charles Sturt a ‘stronger institution’ after addressing regulatory and governance issues

Former Tory minister warns using ELQ rule in government’s planned skills revolution would block careers in key sectors like fashion

Dartmouth case seen as exposing national unpreparedness for online exams that predated Covid and still needs fixing

‘Hua Zhibing’ to study alongside and interact with human learners

Scholars, fed up with decades of living from contract to contract, force government to remove video that seemed to celebrate insecurity

Social media photos reported, while outsider in conservative state bemoans loss of civil debate

Still much to be said for old-fashioned media that operate ‘at the speed of human thinking’, book suggests