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Universities cancel classes after separate incidents

All but tiny minority of population qualify for enrolment under ‘economically weaker’ label

Science and technology investment fund created by universities of Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield injects first capital to fuel innovation shift

A researcher may have aided Iran’s nuclear weapons programme with unauthorised access, but his sentence was softened due to ‘deficient’ university routines

Number of new enrolments up 7 per cent this autumn, says IIE data

Computer scientist on his company’s foray into testing, competing with TikTok and lessons from being a university professor

Open letter signed by more than 2,000 documents numerous issues with new finance systems – and calls for leaders to take responsibility

Successful applications from south Asia fall off a cliff, as authorities struggle to distinguish genuine students from those with other things on their minds

Increasingly international universities want to push native-language brain drain up the political agenda, despite their rescue from ‘freefall’ by a recent funding top-up

You are part of the problem, academic union tells Labour, as government declines to ‘step in’

Leading civil rights figure in US higher education questions assertions by Supreme Court justices that ending legacy advantages could be a reasonable response to their expected ban on affirmative action

Funding council reviewer signals intent to recommend ditching ERA, rewriting national interest test and circumscribing veto power

Tribal areas get their first public institution since 2018 incorporation, benefiting women unable to seek education further afield

Ministries and rectors in Austria and Slovakia are yet to reach agreements on the extra funding needed to cover surging costs

Charity Commission issues formal warning over handling of finances linked to Martyn Percy affair

Survey finds a vast majority of students want clearer strategies for climate change

One of the biggest original Mooc providers is ‘entering a new chapter’, its chief executive has told staff, amid a gloomier financial climate

At THE conference in Los Angeles, warning of long-term debt to workers includes suggested remedies such as temporary release from course loads and pause in tenure clock

Student member of statewide board declines to join rest of board in ratifying Republican senator, as faculty and students in Gainesville look to punish colleagues who backed him

The Harvard researcher discusses his humble upbringing and how the plight of Dalits is now being taken more seriously, in academia and beyond

Evaluation report finds some institutions ‘slow to prioritise this issue’, leading to need for more regulation to ensure ‘consistent approach’ across sector

‘Political signal’ could prompt closer work on research, staff and student mobility, ambassador tells THE

°Õ±á·¡â€™s second global work-life balance survey finds although flexible working has brought benefits, long hours remain a ‘chronic’ problem

New Australian arrangement hailed as long overdue by many, but critics warn of unintended consequences

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

Report follows university governance scandals such as that triggering exit of ex-De Montfort v-c Dominic Shellard

Cash-strapped institutions closing early for Christmas and moving teaching online, but face backlash from policymakers and students

One-off payments to those in need also among multimillion-pound package of support

Ministerial reshuffle nears completion as faces new and old take up key positions in business and education departments

Point-in-time study quantifies pandemic’s differential impacts on academics with children – particularly mothers

Always left holding the wrong end of the stick, independent institutions hope for a ‘reset’ from the misleadingly named universities accord

Long-serving medieval historian Philip Morgan evicted from office after refusing to show his passport for ‘right-to-work’ check

Pause of Norway’s prestigious investigator-led grants comes as EU alternatives also face the chopping block

Berkeley among institutions admitting it’s overwhelmed by freshers struggling in classes and low on resilience

Around 70,000 members at 150 UK universities set to walk out in disputes over pay, working conditions and pensions

Analytics giant denies accusations it stole data but ends development of MetaDoor platform in settlement with WorldCat

Former education committee chair ‘appears to have interest in detail of policy’ and sees employability as purpose of university

Outpost for up to 5,000 students will be part of £8 billion Brent Cross Town development

Responding to Laurentian crisis, proposal moving through federal Senate would bar public universities from creditor protection, but with only a promise of unspecified alternatives

Twitter trolls and polarised debate on Covid have caused almost one in four academics to scale back public engagement, says Elsevier study

Go8 questions outsiders’ commitment to research, after advisory body raises doubts over education’s contribution to productivity

Other suggestions to ease military skill shortages include funding future reservists’ studies and ‘opening up’ to international students

Iain Mansfield aims to work on ‘breaking the impasse’ on funding in new thinktank role and denies being ‘culture warrior’

Business education should engage more with contemporary realities, which means abandoning things that can be learned for free elsewhere, according to Lord Hastings

Permanent expansion of Covid-era waiver on interest payments cheered by student activists but lamented by conservatives as wasteful and by progressives as missed opportunity

First results of landmark survey of 42,186 employees and students released

International students are â€˜part of the solution, and not the problem’, says ex-minister on launch of new commission

A sunny outlook on student enrolments is marred by the persistent lack of money for research in the field, says association chair

While remote delivery remains popular with many international students, authorities hose down prospects of fully online degrees

New subject guidance mandates ‘narrowly skewed perspective on the history of mathematics’, leading academics claim

While India’s prestigious IITs flex fundraising muscle, others in sector are ‘left in the lurch’

Populist right-wing leader leaves office with public universities facing bankruptcy and country polarised

Student union demands overhaul as post-Covid cost pressures exacerbate student poverty

Concerns over more rigid control of universities and fear of isolationist thinking causing ‘intellectual impoverishment’ for East and West

Scholar warns that growing influence of ideology over education could be ‘the most dangerous thing’ happening in modern-day Russia

Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development calls for a rethink to skills policy, including apprenticeships, following new findings on graduate employment

Business secretary hails research as ‘critical way to turbocharge Britain’s growth’, in Sunak administration’s first major move on science

Decade-old policy has dramatically changed the make-up of institutions, but critics claim it is unfair and unconstitutional

Higher education committee says walkouts should be followed by marking boycott and ‘escalation’ of action if settlement cannot be reached on pay and pensions

Chief higher education lobby group finds decline in share of institutions boosting their overseas outreach, but takes comfort in unexpected areas of growth during the pandemic