Talks on UK joining EU research post-Brexit ‘could last a year’ UK ‘would still like to explore option’ of association but talks cannot begin until April at the earliest, says new universities minister By John Morgan 9 January
Watchdog bans ‘misleading’ Oxbridge Essays advertisement Regulator rules against firm over implication students could submit essays as own and claims about writers’ university backgrounds By John Morgan 9 January
Proposed metrics for knowledge exchange framework announced Research England says that institutions will be assigned a decile rank in seven broad areas of knowledge exchange By Ellie Bothwell 9 January
Suspended Swansea v-c attacks ‘negligently flawed’ investigation Richard Davies accuses registrar of attempting to ‘seize the position of vice-chancellor’ By Jack Grove 8 January
Alarm over exodus of professorships from southern Italy Positions are being redistributed to Italy’s richer regions, academic group warns, exacerbating long-standing inequalities By David Matthews 8 January
Access hurdles facing white working-class males ‘overblown’ Birmingham academic says scale of issue in England is ‘dramatically misrepresented’ By Chris Havergal 8 January
Which nations in Europe are attracting the most young scholars? Data for age profile of academic workforces across the continent show wide variation between countries By Simon Baker 7 January
Postgraduate numbers plummet amid fears for no-deal Brexit Leading figures in UK higher education warn sector will ‘take decades to recover’ from no-deal Brexit By Jack Grove 4 January
Online ‘intimidation’ of ‘left-biased’ academics spreads worldwide In Germany, Brazil and Hungary, students are being encouraged to film ‘biased’ professors, mirroring far-right tactics in US By David Matthews 3 January
Have the 2010 student protests (eventually) killed £9K fees? Theory that the protests provided essential fuel for Corbynism has specific relevance for higher education as Augar review looms By John Morgan 3 January
Teaching with drones: coming to a classroom near you? Robots and drones should be part of teaching and learning, says report looking into teaching trends in 2019 By Anna McKie 3 January
The REF games are even more brutal this time around Forcing academics on to teaching-only contracts based on flawed assessments of their research is ruining careers, an anonymous academic says By Anonymous 3 January
