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Historian says Trump could attract educated young people if he promised to tackle their debts, while rector tells summit Czech universities remain ‘strongholds of critical discourse’

New spin-off company seeks to revolutionise how we think about the smallest room in the house

Australian schools to run short of teachers as funding cuts and ‘bad media’ bite into education enrolments

Magdeburg university head reveals scale of threats he received after controversy over right-wing AfD speakers

Speakers at THE summit worry that structural funds have become ‘part of the problem’ for new member states

University leaders introduce three-day timetables as teachers struggle to pay bus fares to get to class

While one group of publishers takes academic network to court over copyright, another strikes deal

Foreign students help drive the growth of Australia’s biggest cities

Evidence from German Excellence Initiative suggests elite status rubs off on student perception – even if this is irrational

Universities must be vigilant in age of social media and sneaky technology, researchers warn

Data is latest evidence uncertainty caused by the referendum result has cost British academics

A dwindling share of post-school students could leave the country’s workforce short of know-how

Female researchers remain comparatively scarce in publishing, with some fields to remain male-dominated for centuries

Foreign enrolments have surged to record numbers, possible hiccups lie ahead

French president claims that ‘professional agitators’ are behind campus occupations

‘No more direct access to Springer’s latest papers? No problem,’ says petition, signed by nearly 4,000

As Beijing and Canberra trade blows over foreign interference and academic freedom, leading analyst predicts things will get worse before they get better

Review highlights income support and housing as key issues for university students from regional backgrounds

Students will spend 18 months at each institution and graduate with degrees from both

Cost pressures rule out a resumption of uncapped system as we know it, former top bureaucrat says

A switch to open access could save hundreds of millions of euros, says analysis from the European University Association

Battle between publishers and academic social network deadlocked

Head of Spanish capital's local government investigated over accusations related to her master’s degree

Private college enrolments add to worrying signs for Australian international education

Robotics experts cancel boycott after KAIST denies developing autonomous weapons

University of New England commissions independent audit of abuse in its halls of residence

Research institutions, first in Germany and now in France, are finding that publishers do not cut off access to journals – even when they stop paying

‘If we want to do more things for society, we can’t do it by working more than 60 or 70 hours a week,’ Rolf Tarrach tells annual conference

Rising cost of living set to push price tag attached to getting a medical degree up to as much as A$327,000 (£179,000), study suggests

It smacks of affirmations like ‘if you believe it, you can achieve it’, but men’s academic swagger has a dark side

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan targets students who took part in an anti-war protest at an Istanbul university

Talks scheduled to advance expansion of the US Prison-to-College Pipeline project

Peace process gives new impetus to nation’s efforts to promote itself as academic destination

Leading academics fear research at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology could be used to develop autonomous armaments

Leading expert says a non-academic enrolment mechanism would cause more problems than it solved

Martin Stratmann warns Britain against utilitarian approach to future EU research programmes

But male researchers with small children get a boost, study of academics at Italian university finds

Average remuneration for university heads in Queensland in 2017 stands at twice the equivalent UK figure

Impact of change in school starting age leaves Queensland institutions unable to insulate themselves against budget standstill

Providers fear funding changes could impede disadvantaged Australians’ road to university

Protesters say conference on Ottoman Empire had been aimed at ‘distorting the historical truth’ of the Armenian genocide

Plans by France’s president to establish a series of cross-border university networks are starting to become a reality

Project to begin later this year with construction of new library

Espionage proposals trigger tit-for-tat claims by rival groups of academics

But observers warn that open data initiative is progressing too slowly and researchers lack incentives to join up

Parliamentary debate on proposal to limit learners’ lifetime borrowing deferred for at least six weeks

A Senate showdown looms on the government’s proposal to trim ballooning student debt

Lawyer for Clara Ponsati, the former Catalan education minister whose extradition is sought by Spain, says she will hand herself in

Vice-chancellors have ‘no authority’, says outgoing Melbourne head Glyn Davis

Project set up between scientists and schools could help reverse the effects of a brain drain on the region in the long term

University finances artificially inflated by government’s failed attempt to cut funding earlier this decade

US-Australian study finds that older students in classes have a better chance of entering higher education

While supervisors say protracted shifts are a crucial part of medical education, new research finds no benefit

The world’s first research university offers to take care of those with caring responsibilities

Taped recording of a university lecturer threatening students is viewed more than 80,000 times

Demonstrations opposing ‘biggest cut’ to higher education funding planned in five major cities

Fixation with students’ scores on national ATAR scale constrains teaching innovation in schools, says report

Minister says the UK has much to learn from Israel’s scientific excellence and entrepreneurial flair

An expanding research misconduct investigation has stretched its net from the chilly Baltic to an idyllic Queensland island and the grasslands of Saskatchewan

Most international students who stay in Australia after they graduate cannot find jobs in their fields