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Covid safety almost a liability as Australia and New Zealand relegated as ‘spectators’ rather than participants in international education recovery

Education Committee chair says Bristol’s handling of David Miller case has created ‘hostile environment’ for Jewish students akin to ‘1930s Germany’

Women gain milestone at prestigious science body although racial divide remains wide

Tao Li to leave amid ongoing investigations into 2019 death of Huixiang Chen

But poll finds opinion fairly evenly divided among general population

Entrepreneurship skills can benefit students and society, but many universities aren’t giving the area the attention it needs, experts tell Anna McKie

Eric Chabriere’s attacks against critics of hydroxychloroquine are seen as a sign of the social-media-induced radicalisation that has occurred during the pandemic

Aston and London South Bank are latest institutions to shutter humanities and social sciences degrees

‘Tesla’ creators say accuracy and security in design were more important than rushed roll-out

Union threatens strikes and marking boycott after staff identified for redundancy based on research grant income and citation impact scores

Online event to explore how pandemic and technology are reshaping geography of global higher education

Leeds, Manchester and Sheffield join forces to attract private investment

In year before REF census, at a handful of institutions more than two-thirds of staff were reclassified 

Winners describe how gossip and gaudy colours, as well as a desire to relieve suffering, spurred their research

Lawmakers ‘desperately seeking innovation nirvana’ fail to buttress it with steadfast policies or durable statistics

Nearly one in five surveyed students find overlap between their master’s and doctoral training

Opening up the canon is essential for a discipline that struggles with diversity, claims author 

Relying on academic research, thinktanks translate findings into the language of politicians and media, EUA president Michael Murphy argues – but not always accurately

Faculty group’s first boycott order in decade affirms pro-Israel interference, but president Meric Gertler pushes back

Joint statement from research-intensive institutions criticises plan to exclude UK and Swiss scholars from grants covering space and quantum computing

Losses far worse than they appear on paper, v-c warns, as institution reels from plunging investment and international income

Universities fear ‘emergency brake’ will halt essential medical training and lab work, but in the Netherlands, Denmark and Portugal campuses are reopening

Book sets out to challenge the simplistic and divisive thinking to be found in disciplines as diverse as economics and literary studies

Encouraging students to start a business could do more harm than good, researchers say

Scotland 2070 authors call for doubling of research spend and for institutional mergers, to boost global clout and innovation focus

Conference hears argument that freedoms are ‘better achieved’ by maintaining public support for universities

Vice-chancellor says philanthropy has been especially transformational in low-income countries

With suggestion that academia profits from ‘slave labour’, senators back new threat to research ties

Trudeau backs spending despite deep deficit, yet still disappoints academic researchers

Politicians emphasising jobs while students want impact, Eric Barron tells THE summit

Advocates of healing find challenge in predecessors with Confederate sentiments

UK watchdog calls for universities to commit to tackling essay mills, after Australian agency warns of malware redirecting students to contract cheating sites

Polling accompanied by call for Westminster government to set out more details of lifetime learning plans

Report backs post-qualification offers model, rejecting other option set out by government

Conference hears local job opportunities for partners of researchers may be just as important as institution’s scholarly prowess

Sir Adrian Smith tells MPs that scientists must redouble efforts to win European grants to offset huge drop in science funding

Universities should rethink their role as a ‘neutral but powerful force’ in times of crisis, summit hears

UK university tops third edition of global ranking measuring institutions’ social and economic impact

Countries have each made most progress in three tables related to the Sustainable Development Goals

Region retains pre-eminence in league table based on alignment with UN’s Sustainable Development Goals

Unfavourable policies stem from ‘frustrations’ over stymied reforms, former education minister says

Study highlights growing importance of fundraising activity but raises concerns about burden on academics and students

US professors often extend off-campus invites, but generally without official guidelines

Likely to enter government in the autumn, the party wants a big expansion of student support, 40 per cent female quotas in universities, and academic freedom at the heart of foreign policy

Attacks on the disciplines are ‘source of alarm’, as they are central to employability in teaching ‘how narratives fool us’, THE event hears

Sectors should bury the hatchet and bolster each other’s intelligence capabilities, Australian paper suggests

Experts warn that some will be left behind amid rapid sector transformation 

To tackle the SDGs, understanding local context is important for universities in both the Global North and South, conference hears

Opposition pledges unity ticket with government on ‘single most important piece of microeconomic reform that faces the nation today’

University tries to allay fears that reporting mental health issues could result in students being barred from campus

Rama Thirunamachandran says metrics could be effectively used to assess quality for many disciplines

Amid demographic decline and geopolitical isolation, island hopes to have more English-language courses

Office for Students calls for universities to review sexual misconduct policies by summer, following publications of thousands of claims of abuse across sector

Australian astrophysicist adapts galaxy modelling techniques to track path of current employment practices

Chief executive of biotechnology giant urges governments to provide long-term clarity on support for research

Reading room of historic Jagger library ‘completely gutted’

Sector leaders say governments should ‘nudge’, not direct, university commercialisation efforts

Centres of invention such as Silicon Valley ‘a model for burgeoning inequality’, summit hears

Australian minister offers no new details on proposed commercialisation scheme or timing of international students’ return

Boris Johnson ‘completely wrong’ about vaccine success, while UK industrial strategy vacillation ‘reeks of insecurity’, innovation expert tells THE summit