Europe

Some of the country’s biggest institutions have suffered bruising defeats of late despite the justice system generally favouring the powerful. What explains this losing streak and will it change anything?

The science secretary’s demand that UKRI take action against its EDI committee underlines how far UK science’s independence has slipped, says Fiona Fox

Sector leaders express frustration as chancellor praises universities, but offers little additional money

Baroness Foster of Oxton falsely alleged that Oxford PhD student Melika Gorgianeh had displayed ‘disgusting antisemitic symbols’

UCU says minister ‘does not retain the confidence of the academic community, nor is she upholding good standards of professional conduct’

Three business school researchers who lost their jobs after their research was seen as not meeting strategic priorities win employment case

Heriot-Watt researcher Kate Sang says Michelle Donelan ‘made a cheap political point at my expense and caused serious damage to my reputation’

Michelle Donelan faces calls to apologise as equality committee at centre of Gaza free speech row set to reconvene

President Hugh Brady says new structures will provide ‘sandbox’ for interdisciplinary thinking and ‘shop window’ for industry engagement

Ewan McGaughey says ‘it’s not over’ after narrowly missing out on unseating incumbent Jo Grady

Twenty-three UK universities have gaps larger than 20 percentage points between proportion of academics overall who are female and their share of professoriate

Former universities minister warns that Conservatives’ ‘talking down’ of higher education sector will hit UK economy