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Teaching and research have been run from different parts of Whitehall since 2016, and sector leaders say this has to change

Union misses 50 per cent threshold for first time since holding sector-wide votes, leaving future of dispute in the balance

Wiltshire-based engineering campus says it needs ¡®highest levels of skill and expertise¡¯ to compete globally

Publishers face being ¡®mere service providers¡¯ under new vision, but critics question whether global adoption of proposals will be any wider than their predecessors

Campuses appear to be keeping their pandemic-era test-optional policies, but hesitate to distance themselves even further

Australian researchers propose alternative way of redistributing university resources, but warn it won¡¯t be easy

CUHK scholar sacked days after being denied re-entry to island says room for China-critical research is shrinking

Favouring of candidates aligned to ruling party could do long-term damage to universities, scholars warn

¡®Free-for-all¡¯ approach blunts universities¡¯ impact in tackling complex societal challenges, says Australian consultant

Employers and members likely to save considerable sums sooner than expected as changes sped up due to improving finances

Charges and prohibitions introduced by the likes of X and TikTok are limiting academics¡¯ ability to use sites to gain valuable insights into human behaviour

Former Tory adviser advocates need for controls to reverse resource decline, but another expert sees ¡®block on access to education¡¯

Potsdam president foresees shift to focus on prompt engineering in teaching ¨C but another AI expert thinks it is just another professional skill to rank alongside ¡®can use Excel¡¯

They need the money and graduate students identify with them, but universities don¡¯t formalise the link, analysts warn

Dame Ottoline Leyser issues statement to make position ¡®crystal clear¡¯ as academic concern mounts over government pressure

Mamokgethi Phakeng ¡®subverted policies and procedures¡¯ with council chair to ¡®shield themselves from accountability¡¯, report concludes

Rishi Sunak¡¯s recent attack on higher education expansion as ¡®one of great mistakes of the last 30 years¡¯ leaves questions on economics and politics

LGBQ students reported their straight peers gossiping about them and attempting to ¡®out¡¯ them

Former Warwick head Sir Nigel Thrift says reduced focus on outputs could undermine case for government support of UK research

While political protest a time-honoured tradition, ferocity of pro-Israel onslaught leaves academia to mull its true independence

Only a small minority of institutions adopting climate change policies common in the private sector, finds report

Most Grand Canyon University students on affected programmes had to pay as much as $12,000 (?10,000) more than advertised, says Department of Education

SCU decision the latest sign of doom for workplace agreements that lack union support

The paperwork burden is declining, but so are the prospects of obtaining funds, new data shows

Most-travelled US university president says sector must make hard calls on priorities, but has too few willing to do so

Group hopes to instigate culture change in UK higher education to stop ¡®toleration¡¯ of bullies

Learning of nearly 90,000 students in Gaza Strip disrupted as Israeli reprisals force universities to suspend operations

Dame Ottoline Leyser¡¯s acceptance of ministerial demands is likely to anger scholars who claim Michelle Donelan¡¯s criticism undermines academic freedom

Study says tools informing students which courses they are suited for can lead them to apply for those they are overqualified for

Drawing on Web of Science citation index, Clarivate report shows fivefold acceleration in published research output from China between 2009 and 2021

Union members at UCL claim to have been the ¡®victim of a smear campaign¡¯ as higher education minister calls them Hamas¡¯ ¡®useful idiots¡¯

Increased persecution of scholars in Iran and Afghanistan led to more than 400 attacks being perpetrated against academia globally, says Scholars at Risk report

Employers increasingly wary of harming diversity drives with arbitrary thresholds

Research ¡®challenges the view that barriers to university education are driven by socio-economic disadvantage¡¯

Palestinian scholars in Israel facing threats of violence and calls for their removal describe atmosphere of persecution

As US institutions¡¯ enthusiasm for collaborating with counterparts in Qatar and UAE wanes, China offers funding and language support to increase its influence

Warning comes alongside call for significant improvements in healthcare education and training

Trudeau¡¯s immigration minister accuses institutions of ignoring costs to students from abroad and demands a recalibration

Science secretary¡¯s condemnation of ¡®extremist posts¡¯ by UKRI equality advisers has led to accusations of ministerial ¡®bullying¡¯ and censorship

New millennium has wrought ¡®transformational¡¯ change on Australian higher education, and much of it has been ¡®negative¡¯, seminar hears

Hiring committees should ¡®measure the egotism of candidates¡¯ for vice-chancellor roles, say researchers who compared leaders¡¯ traits and institutional outcomes

Economic barriers and power outages harming sector¡¯s reputation, but some leaders say country is continuing to hold its own, despite problems

UK and New Zealand¡¯s long-awaited association will spur on talks with Canada, South Korea and Japan, according to Signe Ratso

All agree cross-disciplinary collaboration is hard, but researchers favour material incentives while executives want cultural change, study finds

US domestic students achieve better GPAs when cohabiting with someone from overseas, but study finds no effect on international students themselves

Complete careers rethink needed to allow ¡®upshifts and downshifts¡¯ during the course of a working life, female leaders tell conference

Academic dies after displaying symptoms of disease he studied, with thousands of unauthorised samples reportedly unearthed at lab

Union and employer association welcome delay to resolve ¡®unintended consequences¡¯

Decade of poor progress means number of degree holders is barely above the sub-Saharan African average

Microcredentials designed by Google and IBM will add practical training in key roles to traditional academic offerings, says chief executive of edtech firm

Regulator says subcontracting of courses becoming bigger and bigger part of the sector but there are ¡®potential pockets of concern¡¯

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

Smaller rooms, repurposed golf courses, refurbished government buildings among the suggestions to tackle the ¡®wicked problem¡¯ of accommodating students in Australia

Nation¡¯s campuses see overall undergraduate enrolment gain for first time since Covid, only to lose new four-year entrants

Average rents across UK up 14.6 per cent in just two years, study of 10 cities finds, with Bristol, Exeter and Nottingham most expensive

Lack of publicly available data on doctoral degree holders is allowing people to add fake credentials to their resum¨¦s, says research fraud expert

Health researcher on bridging the policy-academia divide and navigating global health politics

Experts say early indications show demand for higher education remains subdued, but many would have been ¡®fearing worse¡¯

With funding and productivity likely to dip as war takes priority, Israeli universities say preserving international links will be vital

A convincing veneer of academic integrity can help bring about the real thing, finds literature review