Academic freedom in Hong Kong 'under threat'
New report highlights growing crackdown on dissident academics and increased political interference in campus affairs
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Further evidence of waning international enrolments in US
National Science Foundation report says overseas undergraduate recruitment is down 2.2 per cent, with a 5.5 per cent drop at postgraduate level
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UK university staff vote to strike over USS pension reforms
Fourteen days of strike action set to begin on 22 February if talks fail, affecting 61 universities
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Confusion over Office for Students' role endangers sector
Muddled thinking behind the creation of the new Office for Students risks damaging the UK's world-class universities, says Lord Hunt of Kings Heath
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NHS crisis puts nurse training efforts in spotlight
Loss of bursaries is not only cause of dramatic fall in applications for UK nursing courses, say university leaders
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‘Cite Black Women’ campaign gains momentum
Anthropologist uses T-shirts and tweets to highlight under-representation of black women in academia
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How technology can help meet the challenges of two-year degrees
Joel Mullan shares some of the ways that digital technologies could address the challenges posed by accelerated degree courses
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US universities hand out degrees with guarantees
Shift towards greater accountability comes as Trump administration moves in opposite direction
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Smart people problems: we need to talk about PhD mental health
The stressful postgraduate environment often leads not to solidarity but to the impoverishment of research, says Alfredo Cumerma
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Interdisciplinarity and global view ‘priorities for humanities’
Scholars in English and other disciplines need to engage with big challenges facing planet, conference hears
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More European academics are leaving the UK – can you blame them?
Almost 2,350 academics from non-UK European countries have resigned from UK universities in the past year, and Layla Moran fears that could be just the tip of the iceberg
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THE podcast: Asia Universities Summit 2018 preview
Find out what you can expect at the upcoming 2018 Asia Universities Summit in Shenzhen, China
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Data bite: share of female professors now virtually a quarter
Milestone may be taken as evidence that gender equality in academia is improving, albeit slowly
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Admissions: we need more contextual offers, not unconditional offers
Unconditional offers harm A-level performance, but contextual offers do not – and they better target social mobility, says John Law
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New universities minister promises review of English tuition fees
In first public appearance since his appointment, Sam Gyimah claims Labour’s plan to scrap fees is unrealistic