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Anne L’Huillier is fifth woman to win physics prize, sharing award for research on ultra-quick light emissions with Pierre Agostini and Ferenc Krausz

Vice-chancellors express ‘near unanimous’ support for lowering costs and restoring benefits, and want it to happen more quickly than scheduled

Observers welcome efforts to tackle visa fraud but say new compliance efforts must be ‘robust’

Three years after province cut its budget by a third, leaner flagship university sees a moment to leap; students hope they can make it

Despite drop in Western students, cheap education and science-focused offerings continue to draw international learners from Russia’s political allies

WeWork-style project seeks to replicate some of the benefits of having a university in higher education ‘cold spots’

University of Pennsylvania’s ‘tenacious’ laureates reflect on coping with demotion, dismissal and desk rejection to continue their mRNA research

Union brands proposal to limit impact of industrial action on students ‘a spiteful attack on workers everywhere’

Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman’s research led to jabs that ‘saved millions of lives and prevented disease in many more’, says award panel

Sussex chief challenges ‘uninspected belief’ that additional cash for student learning – including grants for Covid-hit generation – is politically unthinkable

With deadlines rushed and then missed, even the straightforward work of Australia’s major higher education review is looking anything but

New Olympic Park campus will host one of UK’s largest universities and add thousands more jobs and students. What can it achieve?

Administration demands open process that allows anonymity, upsetting agencies seeking clearer rules in an era of partisan attacks

Researchers suggest state school-leavers might be ‘reluctant to perceive their educational investments as unsuccessful’

Moving to the island from mainland China offers families a way to bypass gruelling entrance exam, researchers say

Jurgen Damen named as lecturer killed in attack at Rotterdam teaching hospital

Chapter withdrawn by Routledge after legal threats, with professor claiming that he had been identified, but denying wrongdoing

Accord panel should take note that fee changes ‘don’t change behaviour’, researcher urges

Poorer well-being among undergraduates versus those not in higher education ‘concerning’, but appears to disappear within a few years

Reports suggest the government is considering reforming A levels so that children study a wider range of subjects in post-16 education

Upskiling staff to thrive in clean-energy industries could mostly benefit graduates and high-skill workers, Andreas Schleicher tells conference

Large swathes of scores missing as OfS publishes first results of newly revamped exercise

In reviving controversial gainful employment rule, administration also worries traditional institutions by requiring they publicly report their own graduate salary data

Roughly one in 37 UK students dropped out last year, according to Student Loans Company data

Universities must focus on the student experience, but they also must clarify what students want that experience to be

Dangers of universities being seen to shape public opinion highlighted in Pakistan, while Saudi leader warns of ‘slippery slope’

Former law lecturer suing Open University after claiming she was fired for questioning gender-based changes to curriculum 

Homicide rate may have been about 50 times higher than modern-day standards, study suggests

Report also finds worse outcomes among white and mixed race students than other ethnicities

Arthur Conan Doyle’s maverick detective embraced science but also tapped into suspicion and resentment towards academia, a scholar argues

The political philosopher and anthropologist talks about the city that made her, what she learned as a squatter and the importance of dance for revolutions

Hideo Ohno urges a level-headed approach as university seeks final green light in high-stakes excellence scheme

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

While Covid has perforated the rankings bubble of the front runners, better commercial engagement and refined research measures have boosted much of the middle tier

Asia saw the largest rise of all continents in research quality, teaching score, and overall performance in the latest World University Rankings

UK and US universities struggle to keep pace with top Asian performers as research funding shares decline

Teaching students how to best use ChatGPT and other tools will be core to universities’ future, leaders tell THE summit

Students want to be on campus but they still need a reason to go there, summit hears

While the process to replace Excellence in Research for Australia is a ‘black box’ exercise, new evaluation mechanisms hold promise

Metaverse campuses may be needed to alleviate loneliness of ‘personalised learning at scale’ driven by AI, Anant Agarwal tells THE summit

Research ecosystems need some ‘apoptosis’ as some cells emerge and others fade away, summit hears

Latest KEF data reveals how Oxbridge offshoots turnover more than £40 million annually on average with impressive results found elsewhere in sector

Think twice before pushing bush campuses into national institution or shotgun marriages with research elite, says Chris Hutchison

Pairing of ideologically opposed academics should become sector norm when researchers disagree, says Pennsylvania project leader

Ministers should take another look at ‘ambitious’ plans for decade-long fellowships after Horizon Europe membership was agreed, urges sector

Union says it is â€˜committed to resolving this issue as a matter of urgency’ as Unite urges it to continue funding for postgraduate rights role

Funder’s ‘New Deal’ will examine welfare arrangements for PhD students but insists they are better off ‘without an employment contract’

‘The real world doesn’t come neatly compartmentalised,’ summit hears, in exploration of the ‘unique’ strengths of multidisciplinary research

Staff union steps in to try to protect those responsible for mistakes, as anger grows among membership

Chief regulator who oversaw return of GCSE and A-level exams to take over at admissions service

Admission and retention of under-represented students must not rest on the goodwill of a few ‘teachers and role models’, Sydney summit hears

Cultural anthropologist Genevieve Bell, a former Intel vice-president, will succeed Brian Schmidt at start of 2024

Incentives needed to build research across disciplines to address global challenges, THE summit hears

New Zealand’s leading university confronts ‘enduring and complex questions’ in diversity drive, THE summit hears

While councils might expect a response ‘after first tweet’, universities ‘lose credibility’ when they vacillate, THE World Academic Summit hears

After Supreme Court ruling on race-based admissions, top 10 per cent plans find new interest but doubts persist about underlying motives

As legislation driving rebadged lifelong learning entitlement passes, sector leaders caution that mature learners’ aversion to debt means it cannot bring ‘transformation’ ministers foresee

In departure from previous small-scale efforts, initiative seeks to retain thousands of students for work after graduation

Science minister tells researcher conference to ‘watch this space’ on plans for longer fellowships to rival Max Planck’s decade-long offers

Students encouraged to be at the forefront of technological advances in healthcare with new dual-degree programme