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Applications now down 1.6 per cent year-on-year, with bigger drop among international applicants

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

Search for new leaders at OfS and UKRI offers chance for new government to break from the past in its approach to universities and research

Postgraduates with children ‘fall between the cracks’ as ineligibility for government support ‘disincentivises’ study, report warns

New technology that allows AI avatars to deliver lectures could be used to ‘democratise’ access to higher education, says professor

Goldsmiths creative writing lecturer talks about the difficulties of revisiting his psychological breakdown for his acclaimed memoir The Bullet

References to equality, diversity and inclusion all rising sharply, according to Open Syllabus database

Cambridge study finds long-lasting benefits to mindfulness sessions, but these did not extend to improved academic performance

Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University find that giving students more control increases the time they spend studying and improves their performance in tasks

Prime minister promises to investigate ‘murders’ after student protests against government hiring practices turn deadly

Ministers to create new skills body for England and expand apprenticeship levy

English universities can expect ‘new chapter’ after facing ‘destructive behaviour’ under previous government, former Labour business minister says

Government employees with qualifications from a private college in Rajasthan face scrutiny after allegations of fake degree ploy emerge

Extra financial assistance would support wider unseen benefits of university-led research, says science advocacy group

University says donation was meant to have been made personally by Ravi Gill, owner of the operating company

Hefty pay packages and patchy record on declaring financial data should prompt tougher scrutiny of for-profit sector, says critic

‘There’s an assumption that if you pay for something, it is going to be better quality than if it’s free,’ says librarian involved in Hong Kong collaboration

While Australia says it wants universities ‘going to the world’, its policies are making it harder

Students at National Taiwan University subjected to further harm after reporting misconduct, according to investigators

Five years after arrest in Trump crackdown, Chinese-born Franklin Feng Tao gets vindication – and wants his job back

International students not being offered a back door to prestigious institutions, review finds, but issues with progression and different conditions flagged

Industrial action turnout threshold set for axe, minimum service levels going nowhere, but new rules on zero-hours contracts on the way

Report by Centre for Transforming Access and Student Outcomes examines the earnings and employment status of more than 1 million individuals

Survey finds widening gap between hopes and expectations of students from richest and poorest backgrounds

Some universities are in the final stages of agreeing branch campus plans while others are treading more cautiously

Fresh five-day walkout announced as 97 staff members face redundancy 

Programme details released as Adelaide’s universities enter final stage of merger

Head of prominent public historically black institution troubled by programme performance and commencement slot for hemp farmer turned donor

Blanket rules preventing master’s students from bringing family with them said to be harming UK’s world-leading specialist institutions

Rising number of applicants from abroad secure visas but don’t show up at campuses

Microbiologist Siouxsie Wiles, who was harassed over pandemic commentaries, fears New Zealand’s universities still too slow to protect staff

‘Low-hanging fruit’ has been picked, says expert, leaving institutions needing to make ‘step change’ investments at time of financial crisis

University of Arkansas’ decades-old gift traced to raft of disputed research now playing key political role