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Quality regulation poses the biggest challenge as Bangladesh moves to expand PhD courses to private universities

List includes knighthoods for historian Niall Ferguson and climate scientist Jim Skea

The science is ‘just physics’ and the human chemistry matters more, says academic behind a sustainable development programme that’s going global

If rich countries poach your nurses you should ‘build more nursing schools’, conference hears

Actor Steve Coogan faces legal action over the portrayal of a university registrar in his 2022 film

Top US research funding agency, while unsure about proposed change to mission statement, swings back at partisan attempts to limit an equity-focused agenda

While centre-right majority may offer stability in Brussels, snap poll called by Emmanuel Macron offers fresh risk

Philadelphia city officials probe University of the Arts shutdown, in sign that policymakers might see the need to go beyond their habit of only protecting their publics

Academics attempt to move to public universities as private institutions hardest hit by declining enrolment

With most of the major parties’ manifestos published, THE analyses key pledges of the campaign so far

The proportion of non-EU graduates of UK universities who said their current activity was not meaningful has doubled in recent years

Most initiatives are well-meaning but ‘short-term, scattered, uncoordinated and incoherent’

Party’s manifesto ducks detail in addressing sector funding crisis as it outlines larger role for institutions in skills training

Former health secretary of Mexico to be flagship campus’ first Latino leader

More UK undergraduates see courses as value for money in 2024, with international students driving much of the increase

Queen Mary and Birmingham go down legal route, as Swansea students claim victory, and Oxford protesters fear disciplinary reforms

Despite being closely aligned to outgoing regime, academics believe Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo may reject predecessor’s hostilities

The study also highlighted that researchers were cynical that the sector could improve the working conditions of people managing menstruation

Camille Galap, former interim administrator of the university, succeeds Estelle Iacona as leader

Strike dates organised to clash with briefings that general secretary had planned to outline her plans for her second term

Universities might be in the ‘sweet spot to redefine the future’, but they still need to work with government and business, says leader

If next government wants to raise fees, it will have to face up to the fact that this will be ‘phenomenally unpopular’, poll finds

A fixation on publishing in ‘academic comic books’ is subverting the values permeating business schools, conference hears

Progress in North America and Asia helps to push up number of institutions committing to withdraw funds from fossil fuel companies

Queen Mary says facility has been underused and is losing it hundreds of thousands of pounds a year

Australians are less convinced about the upsides of the educational relationship but also less concerned about the downsides, survey suggests

Haidt vehicle ostensibly began as bid by left-leaning professors to limit their own extremes, but conservative power is more visibly – and audibly – driving its growth

Island’s leader steps in as appointment of a new management team reignites row between vice-chancellor and council

Student organisations urge new coalition government to scrap €3,000 ‘late study fine’ in open letter

Commitments to spend more on research and proceed with lifelong learning entitlement also included in party’s general election manifesto

‘Excessively bureaucratic’ and ‘unaffordable’ rules on open access proposed for the next Research Excellence Framework should be discarded, say university executives

China offers reassurance after seemingly random attack

Share your views on parties and issues as UK goes to the polls

It may be a ‘hard case to make’, but admitting more refugee students is in low-income countries’ interests, conference hears

Stronger leadership, fresher thinking and better incentives needed to drive action on sustainability, says Auckland vice-chancellor

As climate catastrophes gain steam, early warnings offer the ‘most effective’ safety shield, modellers say

As Russia prompts security fears, steering group advises greater collaboration between civilian and military research.

Head of Macau University of Science and Technology explains how strategic importance of region is growing as its economy matures

AI model released by students sparked controversy for similarities to one developed by scientists from Tsinghua University

British Academy report also expresses concern about fall in number of academic staff working in media studies

Figures also showed record 50.1 per cent of postgraduate students for the 2023 admissions cycle were from outside the European Union

Party also commits to taking international students out of migration figures at manifesto launch

Caps being pursued ‘at universities’ request’ and will mirror treatment of domestic students, education minister says

More than 400 climate change researchers put name to open letter ahead of general election

Falling inflation and no strikes have taken the sting out of negotiations this year, but that hasn’t made reaching an agreement any easier

Petition says University of Plymouth proposal would increase monthly prices from £12.50 to £67.50

Shift to lump-sum funding model for key European Research Council awards could backfire, universities fear

As policymakers reduce funding, institutions seen as having little choice but to start charging students more

Experience of Palestinian academics living in Israel like ‘being in the belly of the beast’ since 7 October, Brismes event hears

Recruitment to vocational Bar course put on hold last year amid regulator’s concern over low pass rates

In rerun of US Congress hearing, Australian university executives reprimanded over both insensitivity to antisemitism and ‘complicity’ in Gaza slaughter

Swedish report finds almost a third of research and teaching staff held fixed-term positions in 2022

First drop in proportion of admissions coming from maintained schools since 2014

Course cuts will ‘revitalise’ language offerings, make students more employable and ‘address global challenges’, university claims

Population of students who have studied at college but not gained a degree grew by 2.9 per cent to 36.8 million, report finds

UCU says it has secured an average 15 per cent wage increase for supervisors at Cambridge, and pay raise of 14 per cent for some doctoral tutors at Sussex

Months after Harvard Law Review rejected analysis of Gaza genocide allegation, Columbia’s version does the same

International student caps will endanger research funding just as a leisurely R&D review considers how to fix it, Senate committee hears

Continuing on current path will lead to course closures, reduced research investment and mergers, says former Sheffield Hallam vice-chancellor

Institutions may be hoping to stay under the radar as parties clash over policy, given danger sector will come under further attack