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South Yorkshire town without university plots recovery from deindustrialisation via innovation and skills ‘ecosystem’, winning OECD praise

National Audit Office says regulator must do more to ‘build trust’ with sector and DfE should clarify level of ‘tolerance for provider failure’

Students welcome turnaround, which comes after January announcement that US State Department had shuttered the scheme

The Ukraine war has led to unprecedented curtailment of academic ties, but could breaking off all relations with Russia cause further problems?

IRU’s pre-election manifesto for university sector also recommends adoption of the UK’s Haldane principle

Sweeping sanctions suggest international collaboration could become fragmented into regional power blocs, says sector leader

After a decade of growing together, top US faculty association set to organise inside second-biggest teacher union

Top Australian university sidelined from rich fellowship scheme over ‘unacceptable’ lack of diversity in honorary doctorates

Industrial relations umpire overturns finding that information implicitly identifies individual staff

Student number controls idea seen as response to ‘handing over levers’ to shape English provision in 2010 switch to loans-based system

THE research finds that high share of global institutions fail to provide relevant documentation, despite claiming to have numerous measures aimed at supporting women

Nine out of 10 staff who responded to survey want new rule to be rescinded

‘Big-picture thinkers’ would set national priorities, sidestep electoral cycles and deal with ‘boundary issues’ involving indigenous knowledge

Heads of learned institutions back Putin in the ‘most difficult decision in his life’

Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal accused of disrespect towards administrators and monarchy

Institutions set to sign up to new guidelines promising to ‘prioritise the interests of applicants’

Levelling-up plans for ‘innovation accelerators’ bring hope for local decisions on R&D, but warnings against Whitehall’s ‘Stanford-Silicon Valley’ concept

University’s internal debate about the pros and cons mirrors live discussions elsewhere

With data showing better post-secondary pathway, administration wants more job-oriented course offerings

University and College Union members will again walk out over pay, pensions and working conditions

Storms, flash floods and emergency services effort force students back online

Research and education partnerships, participation in events and peer review all put on hold after appeal from ministry

With relief now unlikely before this month’s autumn admissions offers, top US campus talks of online and deferred acceptances

Ukrainian professor turned politician Inna Sovsun on coordinating student resistance and why international scholars must boycott Russia

While most submissions support legislation to end ministerial veto rights, some urge middle ground approach

Agencies must agree on ‘demarcation line’ for questionable behaviour and mete out consistent punishment, Science paper says

Tory peer Lord Wharton ‘disgusted’ by ‘attacks’ on Ukrainian-born energy tycoon, whose firm he has advised and who donated to him as MP

Invasion of Ukraine ‘threatens the peace, freedom and democracy on which freedom of inquiry and academic collaboration is based’

University refuses to pay staff who have returned to work until they reschedule lectures lost to last round of walkouts

Global index links downward trend over the past decade to accelerating and deepening decline in democracy

Share of female vice-chancellors at high-ranking institutions surpasses 20 per cent for first time based on THE World University Rankings data 

Returning numbers underwhelming so far as isolated state casts off its shackles

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

‘We are not excusing illegal behaviour, but we are acknowledging that it happens and appears widespread’, says Hepi paper advocating harm reduction approach

But one expert suggests closer ties with Beijing may not be as straightforward as Kremlin thinks

The higher education professor discusses totalitarian Romania, his academic inspirations and a fascination with folk music

Academics who did not disclose sexual orientation more likely to produce fewer papers, according to surveys

Universities brace as hot labour market beckons locals who kept them afloat through Covid

Threshold indexing change, not mentioned by DfE in media briefings, brings lifetime hit of up to £19,000 for ‘lower middling earners’ who took out loans after 2012

Symbolic and practical support has come from across Europe, but views differ on whether continued Russian cooperation could end or abet the conflict

Amid chaos, non-profit groups work to help an estimated 20,000 Indians leave war zone

Warning comes as data on English student numbers suggest institutions growing international master’s cohorts

Selective institutions again face backsliding in perennial challenge of guessing how many admitted students will accept

Proportion of leavers going overseas for further courses on a downward trend that predates pandemic

Orbán administration’s illiberal intrusions into institutional governance will be ‘difficult’ to reverse, say scholars 

If just one in 20 supported technologies hits paydirt, new fund will pay for itself, says STEM lobby

Scholars expressing ‘shock and horror’ call for ‘immediate stop’ to Putin’s ‘senseless’ invasion

Around one in 12 postgraduate researchers would publish fraudulent results if it helped them get ahead, says study

Scholars and PhD students voice frustration at lack of concrete plans in consultation on ‘new deal’ for postgraduate researchers

Group that had input into document says it seeks to ‘shore up’ institutions’ reputations rather than make a difference for students 

Swinburne says former councillor and union rep was not targeted, but he says redundancy criteria were written for him

After helping to build version of Silicon Valley near Moscow, Reif calls Russian invasion unacceptable

Unexploded bombs and civil resistance corps on campus are now part of life in Ukraine, explains minister turned university president

Seattle institution pays back $5 million rather than accept free speech limits, but faculty fault refund as unwarranted

Back-to-campus plans postponed as classes make way for crisis centres

Westminster policy package described as ‘missed opportunity’ that leaves ‘difficult questions’ to be answered by next government

A ‘dashboard’ of metrics for assessing science communication could help generate 100 million hours a year of evidence-charged ‘dialogue’

Move by historically black Paul Quinn College aims to break generational persistence of poverty

Researchers support drive for quality over quantity but warn of unintended consequences

But academic expresses concern about first-time voters treating enfranchisement as a ‘TikTok moment’