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Climate academic who refuses to travel by plane promises to donate €75,000 from settlement to climate activism

Details provide more clarity on which research staff will need to enter the next Research Excellence Framework

Founding head of UK super-agency calls time on 34-year career in higher education

Hepi director argues that England¡¯s funding system is ¡®not broken¡¯ but just needs to catch up with inflation ¨C and that ministers should get behind it

Petition opposes merging of Japanese, Chinese and Korean into combined programme amid fears of ¡®significant¡¯ staff cuts

Policy institutes¡¯ lack of strategic variation risks overheating the competition for airtime with national policymakers, says Diana Beech

Scaled and standardised, lowering entry requirements for disadvantaged applicants can contribute to a fairer society, says Jon Datta

Ten years ago, just a handful of UK universities had policy institutes. Now, amid the drive for impact, they are ever more common. But are they really the golden ticket to policymakers¡¯ parlours? Are academics willing to be marshalled by them? And do they risk drowning each other out? Jack Grove reports

Right to sue universities over free speech complaints among the elements of act to be removed by education secretary

¡®Statutory tort¡¯ allowing for universities to be sued over alleged free speech breaches likely to be removed when legislation is reintroduced later this month, according to reports

Institutional communications branded ¡®inconsistent, inauthentic, and rather annoying¡¯ by study participants

Landmark deal should raise questions about publisher¡¯s practices on peer review, citations and special issues, say research sleuths