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Union would end medical school’s 15-year search for a partner

New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission head stresses need to regulate higher and vocational education together during UK visit

Doctoral students at home petition New Delhi for a 60 per cent rise in stipends, amid rising living costs and appeal of overseas job market

University says 77 professional staff and 36 academics will go, on top of those taking voluntary severance

Groups of leading African and European universities will jointly fund at least a decade of priority research through clusters agreed in the first half of this year, although the delicate details of who gives what are yet to be decided

Young people with asylum status say they struggle to get admissions teams to understand immigration rules and recognise their academic track records

Interventions from universities urging a restart of talks struggle to move the dial, with hopes of preventing summer of disruption fading

Study finds that students experienced psychological distress levels more than three times worse than before the pandemic

As annual legislative sessions conclude around the country, academic interference eases but budgetary hopes also fade away

Universities move from public funding to charging tuition fees

Report reveals that total recovery of full economic costs was a 5 per cent deficit across the sector

Leading US science funding agency reports three straight years of record levels of awards to its early-stage applicants, with some gender and racial gains

Sector leaders and academics from across the UK are recognised in the first King’s Birthday Honours list

Acting vice-chancellor urges staff to end refusal to assess work due to ‘enormous’ impact on students, including nine out of 10 postgraduates

Learners must beware of ‘slick-talking agents’ and should get help from staff at their universities, says academic

‘AI teaching leader’ IU, majority owned by private equity firm, adds Canadian university to portfolio alongside London banking education provider

Name, image and likeness ruling leads to stampede for student athletes to cash in, plus ‘pay-to-play’ recruiting war

As Trudeau concludes sweeping immigration review, minister sees value in greater geographic division of visa approvals

Johns Hopkins professor confronted with repeated instances of image manipulation, though Harvard peer sees no implications for discoveries behind 2019 honour

Delays in degrees being awarded because of ongoing marking boycott could leave those with job offers in limbo

Universities will be allowed to submit dozens of outputs by an academic – or none at all – to next Research Excellence Framework under proposed new rules

How will proposals to redraw submissions and assessments affect university staff and institutions? THE’s at-a-glance guide to the next Research Excellence Framework explains more

Policies to curb university expenditure on research assessment exercise failed to stop soaring costs, report finds

Massive grant ‘could appear small’ in future, says scholar, as field enjoys influx of industry money

English sector regulator in touch with agency that tracks down ‘rogue traders’ over consumer protections for students

Hepi report says reforms already announced by Ucas must go further

Pollster acknowledges limitations of survey but says findings show need for government, regulator and institutions to take the issue seriously

Online education firm had vacancy at top since departure of chief executive Andy Hancock in March

Academics on receiving end of 7.5 per cent over three years in what AAUP cites as key driver of ongoing labour unrest

Research on responsible AI will seek to inform national policy and regulation, says UKRI

After three years of retractions and investigations, Kate Laskowski reflects on her role in exposing her co-author’s research misconduct

‘Staff have been doing more with less, while money is thrown at a political consultant,’ union fumes

Training survivors of domestic abuse to become researchers could provide blueprint for public engagement, says King’s academic

Statement says university staff ‘shocked and devastated’ by news

Society issues warning as British Academy expresses concern about future of English degrees

Departure of Tawana Kupe adds to turmoil at top level of South African sector

Ex-PM and former Tory leader urge replacement of Turing Institute with ‘Cern for AI’, which could position Britain as leader in innovation and good practice

Professors say state’s recent track record of passing laws targeting transgender people and DEI programmes means Tampa is not a ‘safe’ location for annual event

Underfunding and an authoritarian government combine to create existential threat for Poland’s basic research agency, scholars fear

Some universities have already begun collecting dues while others ‘wait and see’ for amendment to pass parliament and details of government scholarships to be finalised

Tough job market forces authorities to introduce measures aimed at simplifying graduates’ entry into the workplace

Lawyers consider bringing joint claim over breach, but pension fund says no evidence personal information stolen during Capita attack is circulating widely

Biden ends months-long Republican showdown by accepting budgetary freeze that will tighten institutions’ budgets and likely hurt students with the greatest need

Unions and management should strike ‘grand bargain’ to resolve issue that ‘casts a shadow’ over the sector, says outgoing leader

Historian vice-chancellor Evelyn Welch has faced criticism for marking final-year dissertations personally

Academics question whether two new institutions are needed in a system already facing growing pains

Revenue and visa applications reach record levels, but have not yet translated into record student numbers

Branches across the UK aim to disrupt open days and graduations with fresh round of action as tensions rise

Walter Rosenthal aims to use German Rectors’ Conference presidency to find common ground between applied science and traditional universities

Centre-periphery model of higher education ‘already obsolete’, with strong research output from a growing number of nations, scholar tells Boston conference

Australian government advised to ban agents from taking commission for recruiting foreign students already in country and to ‘link’ visas to institutions

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

Former head of Australian university watchdog says early criticism helped shape more collaborative approach

The historian talks about growing up in the ‘open-air museum’ of Berlin and his popular books on some of the 20th century’s most terrible events and individuals

Additional three months of funding follow deadlock over UK’s membership of European research scheme

As more universities lay out plans to reduce emissions, the calculations can be almost as tough as the targets

Creating new publications for disaffected editors could catalyse a sector-wide rethink on publishing norms, say experts

While environmental crisis has preoccupied academic minds for decades, little has been said about the real-world impact on institutions on the climate front line, argues new book

Clare Marchant to join University of Gloucestershire after six years leading the admissions service

Organisers look to expand programme beyond existing 110 UK-Ukraine partnerships into Europe and North America