Journal lists advance both rigour and relevance

They are not perfect, but they are less imperfect than the alternatives – including internal review systems, say Nicolai Foss and Michael Mol

Research infrastructure staff should be on the same terms as academics

Modern research infrastructure runs on specialist expertise, but Australia’s job classification framework hasn’t caught up. The result is a major injustice – and a threat to recruitment and retention...

Canvas hack highlights need for ‘data sovereignty’, says v-c

Home-grown data storage could hamper ‘global cybergangs’ and boost productivity as well as security, according to former cabinet minister

Harvard shares public database naming people officials enslaved

‘Academic diplomacy’ can bridge political divides, says EUA head

Universities should be able to continue working with one another even when governments fall out, according to the president of body that represents 900 institutions

Degree-holders have better well-being than non-graduates

Sutton Trust says findings support argument that value of higher education should be judged on more than post-university salaries alone

‘Endemic micro-cheating’ by academics ‘going unpunished’

Growing levels of questionable research practices have been overshadowed by a ‘moral panic’ over student use of AI, says education dean

Megacompanies fuel Vietnam’s new wave of ambitious universities

Innovative models of higher education, unimaginable in the West, are emerging in a big, youthful country confronting a demographic and economic crossroads

The OfS-Sussex verdict is logically flawed. It can’t be allowed to stand

Without correction by a higher court, the likely result will be confusion about what the Freedom of Speech Act requires, says Abhishek Saha

Researchers ‘much more likely to leave UK’ than other professions

Academics who relocate to country among the most likely to only stay short term because of precarious contracts and global opportunities

Staff demand ‘Cambridge weighting’ as strike action extended

University urged to follow Oxford’s lead and give staff extra allowance to cope with city’s high living costs

Australian budget bankrolls R&D overhaul by ‘moving funding’

Treasury also implements A$11 million levy to fund National Student Ombudsman, and ‘enhanced security’ of student visa applications

Further teaching grant cuts ‘would undermine tuition fee rise’

Ministers urged to protect budget for ‘strategic priorities’ as government funding cuts over past decade place higher burden on graduates

DfE unveils £6 million centres in ‘deliberate shift’ on research

New flagship university-based research centres may signal end of intentional sidelining of pedagogy academics

Victorian universities boost annual earnings by A$1bn

Latest tranche of financial accounts depicts a sector in hearty financial health, despite policy volatility