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‘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

Opposition of Labor and Greens means that measure proposed in December's mid-year budget update is unlikely to pass

Students’ union says major report suggests that humanities degrees are ‘not worthwhile’

Perth’s Murdoch University backs away from radical move to reboot staff conditions

Benefits appear to come from exposure to campus life rather than quality teaching, Australian researchers find

Latest skirmish in war of words sparked by claims of Chinese meddling on Australian campuses, and Canberra’s new foreign interference laws

Female students at the Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta must stop wearing full-face veils if they wish to graduate, rector warns

Former rector of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan University is sentenced to four years on alleged terrorist charges

New outpost does not undermine commitment to remain in Budapest, institution insists

Political appointees to governing councils are ‘the weakest and most provincial ones we’ve ever had’, says Universities Austria 

Plans for 600 apartments on the National Autonomous University of Mexico campus breach world heritage site regulations

Historic flying of Trans Pride flag at University College Cork follows similar commitment to equality by other Irish universities

New schemes will provide grants to master’s and PhD students and postdoctoral researchers

Ethics modules ordered after warnings from students’ union that misconduct is on the rise

Higher education institutions make a loss when they invest in international partnerships, but the wider community reaps a windfall, says New Zealand report

Universities anticipate much greater scrutiny of teaching outcomes, potentially even ‘peer review’ of lectures