Who’s in Sunak’s government? Meet the ministers set to shape HE
Ministerial reshuffle nears completion as faces new and old take up key positions in business and education departments
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Private colleges look to accord to level Australian playing field
Always left holding the wrong end of the stick, independent institutions hope for a ‘reset’ from the misleadingly named universities accord
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Immigration check refusenik stripped of Keele fellowship
Long-serving medieval historian Philip Morgan evicted from office after refusing to show his passport for ‘right-to-work’ check
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Top labs’ younger staff ‘most exposed’ to basic funding freezes
Pause of Norway’s prestigious investigator-led grants comes as EU alternatives also face the chopping block
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US universities find students way behind after Covid
Berkeley among institutions admitting it’s overwhelmed by freshers struggling in classes and low on resilience
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Parenthood a key factor in Covid’s gender inequities
Point-in-time study quantifies pandemic’s differential impacts on academics with children – particularly mothers
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We must free tomorrow’s scientific leaders from grant capture
The emphasis on bringing in money above all else is killing researchers’ passion for discovery, says Aymen Idris
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UCU pledges strikes on ‘scale never seen before’ as dates named
Around 70,000 members at 150 UK universities set to walk out in disputes over pay, working conditions and pensions
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Clarivate axes plan for global library catalogue under court deal
Analytics giant denies accusations it stole data but ends development of MetaDoor platform in settlement with WorldCat
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Halfon as HE minister spells apprenticeship push for sector
Former education committee chair ‘appears to have interest in detail of policy’ and sees employability as purpose of university
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Sheffield Hallam to open London campus
Outpost for up to 5,000 students will be part of £8 billion Brent Cross Town development
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Talking leadership 49: Ann Harrison on transforming business education
With falling enrolments in traditional MBAs – and increased pressure to tackle diversity and sustainability agendas – business schools must change to stay relevant, says Haas dean
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Canada seeks to block universities from filing for bankruptcy
Responding to Laurentian crisis, proposal moving through federal Senate would bar public universities from creditor protection, but with only a promise of unspecified alternatives
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Protect researchers from online abuse, universities told
Twitter trolls and polarised debate on Covid have caused almost one in four academics to scale back public engagement, says Elsevier study
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Accept number controls if you want higher fees, English v-cs told
Iain Mansfield aims to work on ‘breaking the impasse’ on funding in new thinktank role and denies being ‘culture warrior’