Degree-awarding powers confirmed for Dyson Institute
Inventor’s Wiltshire-based training centre is first to go through new Office for Students process
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US parents flex power in campus confrontations
While administrators, faculty, students and police get main attention in protests, those paying the bills – especially in wealthier families – pursue more decisive roles
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‘Where is my country’s next female vice-chancellor?’
Malawi’s first female university president Address Malata reflects on shaking up a male-dominated institution and why having more women on the faculty matters
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Two-thirds of Cambridge researchers on temporary contracts
Scale of research precarity at top UK university and its effect on staff laid out in new report
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Universities ‘risk grinding to a halt’ as job cuts deepen
Institutions where hundreds of roles are at risk will have to radically change the way they operate, staff warn, with big impact on students and the wider community
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New grant delays hit Australian researchers
Postdocs risk being ruled ineligible after biding their time to optimise prospects of success
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Iran’s new hijab crackdown risks reviving campus unrest
Reversing the gains made by the protests against a woman’s death in police custody could see the nation erupt again, says Roohola Ramezani
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Sydney’s Palestine protest response criticised from all sides
V-c’s offer to meet with encampment to review defence and security research called both an ‘empty deal’ and a ‘capitulation’
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Phillipson says raising fees ‘unpalatable’ but won’t rule it out
Shadow education secretary puts focus on tweaking student finance and encouraging knowledge exchange as election looms
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Cornell University president Martha Pollack to step down
Third Ivy League leader to depart amid Israel protests concedes pressures, as numerous US counterparts face no-confidence votes
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Ucas to show historic entry grades data to university applicants
Admissions service announces series of initiatives to encourage students from low-income families to apply for higher education
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China set to overtake Europe on English-taught degrees
Number of English-medium degrees on offer outside traditional anglophone destinations increases by 48 per cent in five years
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Yale names Stony Brook’s Maurie McInnis as president
Alumnus and trustee to become Ivy League institution’s first non-interim female leader after narrowly avoiding faculty censure at Stony Brook
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UCU conferences cancelled as union staff strike over ‘racism’
Unite branch leads walkout, saying industrial relations in union are ‘broken’, just hours after general secretary delivers unity message in opening speech
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More apprentices ‘shouldn’t come at higher education’s expense’
Tory plans to close low-performing degrees to fund apprenticeships ‘miss the mark’, says UK sector