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Dearth of data undermines understanding of cancel culture and other campus codes of silence

Higher education analysts mull China’s continued attractiveness as a student destination amid its zero-Covid policy and scant foreign student returnees

Parisian professor says hers is the first to appoint a selection committee by lot, an approach that should be taken up nationwide

Estimated 180,000 students – mostly low-income women – face disruption to academic careers as states allowed to forbid female healthcare

English institutions told to ‘reflect carefully’ on whether initiatives such as Race Equality Charter are in conflict with duty to uphold free speech

Office for Students accounts also confirm £915,000 payment to for-profit college that successfully challenged refusal of registration in court

While some fields have been exempted from a contentious imposition on international doctoral students, sector still fears overkill

Starmer also expected to consider ‘fudge’ manifesto pledge to review university funding, with party set to drop Corbyn-era policy

Sole courtroom victor in three years of prosecutions says jurors needed to hear that institutions went along, and then believe that nobody was hurt

Ditching high-profile pledge to spend £300 million more on maths research over next five years will harm under-pressure discipline, experts warn

World’s biggest bibliographic database claims MetaDoor is ‘misappropriating’ its catalogue to drive it out of business

President must learn to work with a fragmented parliament, but experts say likely allies will back his push to liberalise higher education

Winners of internal competitions will not be eligible for research council grants, as power shifts to government

Universities urged to rule out taking advantage of planned redrawing of UK legislation

Administration moves to reverse Trump mandate for in-person hearings and expand protections to transgender students

An internalised, colonial-era emphasis on exam grades is preventing students from deeper learning, forum hears

Change is finally beginning to happen across higher education but campaigners say structural change is needed, not sticking plasters

Big publishers finding switch away from paywalls challenging, says European-led coalition

Two-thirds of institutions responding to IIE survey report increase in interest

Science leaders beg Ursula von der Leyen to break political impasse

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

The human geographer talks about her work with stateless groups, the importance of collaboration and why the stereotype of a map-wielding explorer is important in confronting her subject’s imperial legacies

Lab-by-lab approach determining who gets credit and who doesn’t must be replaced by more comprehensive policies, researchers say

Survey finds UK undergraduates appear a lot less supportive of free speech than they were six years ago

European doctoral body says funders must recognise that current financial support is often insufficient for PhD researchers

Analysis of ‘true economic value’ of sector says staff are essentially subsidising a broken system

Former attorney general turned security professor says avoiding ‘overreach’ is as important as protecting public safety

In bleak assessment, AAUP finds full-time wages up 2 per cent, but down 5 per cent after inflation, falling below recession levels

Choice of former Darpa director to replace Lander affirms growing government-wide shift towards emphasising applied research

Australian educators demand ‘clarity’ on whether pandemic concessions will be extended

Western scholars may be taken aback by job negotiations in a country where universities rarely reward merit over seniority

Position will be used to ‘keep universities on a shorter leash’ and ‘pre-empt any potential dissent’, academics say

Despite known risk, politicians from states with weak science records push dramatic expansion of affirmative-action-style set-asides for federal dollars