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Rising star of contest to be next PM signals intention to clamp down on ‘low quality degrees’ and universities that â€˜indoctrinate social attitudes’

Academics’ pension fund adds famous holiday camps to growing portfolio of assets as it seeks to shore up finances post-pandemic

Rebecca Blank, who was until recently head of Wisconsin’s flagship campus, to return to state to fight aggressive form of disease

Inaugural intake of students expected to arrive in Birmingham in autumn 2023, but funding and governance still to be determined

Planned reductions to Foreign Ministry budget would hurt institutional cooperation and leave researchers in the lurch, DAAD exchange service says

After 80 per cent gain in youth voting for last midterm congressional election cycle, Supreme Court decision seen as driving interest even higher

British Academy chief Julia Black says Treasury must urgently clarify stance on Horizon Europe and long-term backing for UK science

University sector awaits political leadership as key posts lie vacant

‘Anyone who thinks the university is in good shape is deluded,’ says former Morgan Stanley executive in resignation letter

Survey results ‘show significant differences’ in performance of major student destination countries amid high demand for student visas

Case of Australia’s ‘most hated woman’ highlights tensions between justice, science and courts’ need to distinguish between world experts and ‘proven performers’

Male students at university in Iceland tended to rate their female teachers lower than male counterparts in both teaching and course organisation

Royal Netherlands Academy says extra funding and time cannot ‘truly compensate’ those who began their research careers in lockdown

Science sector ‘needs ministerial leadership’, says MP who resigned barely 24 hours earlier

Professors sanctioned for vaccine discussions as politicians seen gearing up for US-style assault on academic rights

Coursera co-founder warns that faculty are ‘burning the candle at multiple ends’

Scale of redundancies and resignations announced by Wolverhampton far surpasses figure previously expected

Principal says institution not able to ‘take new students onto programmes where staff refuse to deliver the promised education’

Republican lawmakers in Pennsylvania hold up state’s budget as part of demand that university gets no money if valued research involving aborted tissue persists

Vivienne Stern tells Australian conference that universities should make contingency preparations for collapse in relations

Departure of prime minister may allow for a rethink on Horizon Europe association, but sector could face months of damaging policy stasis, say experts

Boris Johnson appoints Cabinet to see out remainder of his premiership

Newly appointed education secretary follows science minister out the door

Australia the biggest loser, universities warn, as protracted delays shepherd PhD applicants elsewhere

While contentious reforms were ‘a first for the OECD’, conference hears, they have reinforced a move away from taxpayer funding

Greatest obstacles facing universities coming from increased ideological control over education, says professor

New report seeks to engage with criticisms of distance learning and suggests ways they can be overcome

Chinese-Australian material scientist explains the downside of fashion, and why hunger therapy can be a good thing

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

Large-scale study finds younger, female supervisors are more likely to produce PhD graduates who publish successfully

Science minister hits out at lack of Treasury support for Plan B science scheme amid Westminster chaos

Minister heads for education secretary job having fought ‘culture wars’ against universities, but policy change may hinge on survival of Johnson government

UK students only marginally happier with the overall quality of their course than they were a year ago

Former nurse will take on research council post vacated by REF stalwart David Sweeney

Scientist’s appointment to succeed Dame Janet Beer sees him return to university where he studied

But new Australian education minister silent on sector’s calls for more spending on teaching and research

Ministers expected to cap numbers based on OfS numerical baselines, including proportions of graduates going into ‘managerial or professional employment’

‘DragonBear’ alliance may force Western universities to cancel research partnerships with China, says former science minister Lord Johnson

As enrolments rebound after Covid, students from biggest African nation found to face tougher conditions on testing, financing, visas and admissions

Experts predict institution in planned megacity could surpass KAUST with backing of all-powerful Mohammed bin Salman

Higher education minister promoted as Nadhim Zahawi moves to Treasury

Australian sector pitches for a ‘reset’ as it gathers in the seat of government

Latest ruling against an international student arrested over research upon return to the country is decried as a ‘mockery of justice’ by rector

Consultation opens into the terms, scope and structure of the review, which aims to identify ‘meaningful and implementable’ changes

This year’s wins in ‘Nobel Prize of maths’ show bloc’s research programme must be open to UK and Switzerland, leaders say

‘Micromajors’ grow in popularity as number of university leavers hits 10 million annually

Promotion of divisive ‘wedge issues’ enhances Donelan’s standing within Tory party by throwing ‘red meat’ to backbenchers, says sector leader

First-of-its-kind commitment promises return to 2019 levels of first- and upper-second-class degrees

Copenhagen doctoral candidate Maria Toft explains how her campaign has led to sector-wide calls for research reform in Denmark

Manchester vice-president urges funders to address ‘low’ stipends but warns change in employment status would mean fewer studentships

‘The current court has clearly shown its willingness to directly overturn past precedents in order to achieve conservative policy goals, and I don’t see why this case would be different,’ says sociologist

Women chairing university complaint bodies are at risk of retribution and cases are not always ‘taken seriously’ by committee members, academics say

Having a name that takes longer to pronounce also associated with employment at a lower-ranked institution

Deemed surplus to needs as their university amassed a A$200 million buffer, UWA social scientists find welcome at Curtin

Letter urges Baroness Hale and Lord Reed to step back from Law Quarterly Review and Criminal Law Review until diversity improved

Switch to aggregated voting means staff at 149 UK universities could walk out if union gets majority turnout and support

New approach ‘a great outcome’ for those fearing impacts of the ‘most bone-headed idea ever’

Existing students able to complete courses as usual, but universities face question mark over autumn recruitment

Marketing should include data on dropout rates and graduate outcomes, English institutions told

Ucas analysis suggests online learning may not have suited students with disabilities, who were more inclined to delay their degree