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Using jokes where appropriate can build trust, diffuse anxiety and enhance learning, says doctoral supervision award winner

Science academy urges government to facilitate curiosity-driven research and protect researchers from intimidation

Latest cost-cutting drives to hit UK sector include planned compulsory redundancies at Bournemouth-based institution

Canadian prime minister creates two new ministries focused on industry and innovation, but critics fear stripping science from job titles signals wrong approach

Increase in antisemitism probes targeting smaller colleges leaves institutions lacking the heft of Harvard exposed

Internationalisation strategies will be damaged by heavy prioritisation of students from Europe and US, report authors warn

Experience Down Under suggests universities should not be too quick to torpedo idea that overseas income should be redistributed

Culture shocks experienced by international academics moving to Middle East put progress of universities at risk, study finds

All of university’s hourly paid lecturers in social sciences set to go under plans that will affect a quarter of academic workforce

Job cuts target drops from initial 400 after university accepts proposals put forward by staff which will see schools ‘teaching higher numbers of students’

English sector facing total bill of £620 million a year, if government goes ahead with plan to take cut of international earnings

Student-staff ratios climb to highest level in a decade as universities make cutbacks to avoid plunging into the red

University accused of ‘knee-jerk’ reaction to recent rulings, amid fears of more ‘massive fines’

Universities set to lose millions in income if government goes ahead with plan to take a cut of overseas earnings, and are unlikely to see much benefit from levy spending, critics say

Science department will publish specific objectives with ‘corresponding key performance indicators’ for the £9.6 billion research funder this summer, reveals NAO report

Early career researchers from non-EU countries describe major hurdles to Swedish residency under recent migration law changes

Top universities still in robust financial health in year of visa hikes and last-minute withdrawal of proposed foreign enrolment caps

Bentley-driving vice-chancellor George Holmes put on leave after PwC investigation into university payments

Growing cooperation between institutions to address area’s skills needs a ‘blueprint for rest of UK’, politicians say

Former Universities UK chief takes over higher education super-agency to oversee ‘next phase of development’

Despite widespread misgivings about productivity gains, digital transformations are considered a safer bet than campus investment, survey suggests

Government proposal to take a cut of English universities’ overseas income to pay for higher education dismissed as ‘finger in the air’ policymaking

Renewed interest in expanding abroad could prove lucrative but is not immune to scrutiny from the White House, scholars say

Academic and professional services posts to go, with university blaming ‘unprecedented financial challenges’

Multiannual funding programme will ‘retain spirit’ of much-applauded previous scheme, considered ‘step-change’ in Irish research investment

Labour proposes graduate visa reduction, new fee levy and stricter compliance rules in long-awaited policy document

Two-year visa will cover alumni at other high-ranking institutions, as study highlights challenges related to ‘ridiculously expensive’ route

Universities praise continuity of reappointments in era of reform, as post-election reshuffle ushers in new assistant ministry in international education

New levy on income from international students proposed as government outlines wide-ranging changes to immigration system

Wave of ‘low-quality’ papers threatening to overwhelm journals and peer reviewers, preventing them from assessing more meaningful research

Macron criticised over €100 million package while ‘underfunding’ higher education at home

New era of collaboration will benefit both sectors, according to leader who hopes to put ‘efficiency’ skills to good use at one of England’s smallest universities

‘Third way’ approach to international students would see country strengthen educational offer but also send more of its own citizens abroad