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Swift clarification of exemption for mass-market books follows claims that REF open access requirements would destroy publishing opportunities for scholars

Minister calls on universities to learn lessons from last year’s disruption at Commons hearing

New legislation will allow private universities to issue degrees and international institutes to open Greek branches

Universities struggling to balance need to enrol more overseas students with strict visa compliance requirements

Cameroonian historian and philosopher Achille Mbembe says continent’s universities need more funding, and better global partnerships

Outgoing Oxford chancellor, ‘chairman of the Tory party when there was one’, advocates cross-party consensus on state investment, not higher fees

Institutions need more flexibility on whether to participate in mandatory government-run pensions scheme, Ucea and UUK argue

Crucial crossbench senators signal support, amid opposition tirades against renunciation of ministerial oversight

In long-running battle, nation’s top court allows West Texas A&M University to block LGBTQ student performance while lower courts decide its ultimate legality

National Education Policy prioritises institutional autonomy but controls remain tight despite attempts to decentralise

Short deadline for universities dealing with issues internally will ‘inundate’ regulator with partially investigated cases, sector fears

Extension of journal mandate to monographs designed to ‘make research more open and equitable’, but has historically been a source of controversy

As online delivery complicates quality assurance based on states and regions, Biden regulatory effort delves into difficulties of trade-offs

Sylvie Retailleau says France wants to ‘welcome’ international students, despite fallout from row over stricter controls

Tuition fees for foreign overseas in Japan are expected to rise above domestic ones for first time

Amena El Ashkar was hoping to study a PhD in international relations at the London School of Economics but her visa was rejected

Growing use of chatbots within higher education is likely to foster unoriginal and ‘solipsistic’ thought, says IE president

Competitors can be friends when government acts like your enemy, Sydney round table hears

Central investment might go some way to mitigate declining spending by local government and industry

Winchester, Surrey and Queen Mary latest to shed academic positions as industrial disputes heat up elsewhere

London Book Fair discussion dominated by concern over large language models using published works without citations or remuneration to authors or publishing houses

Investigation follows publishing controversy that saw chapter detailing allegations withdrawn by Routledge

India and China expected to remain top sending markets to 2030, but overall growth rate set to slow

UK universities must make flexible working ‘the default’, including in high-salary jobs, to tackle gender pay gaps, says thinktank

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

Emotional strain of facing near-empty auditoriums should prompt review of university lecturing, says psychologist

Office for Students insists it has ‘no recommendations of directions of travel’ as it seeks views on distribution of £1.5 billion annual budget

Average remuneration up by 8 per cent, including multimillion-rand bonus for former Johannesburg head

Australian visa refusals strain credibility, as data suggest foreign students are shielding the country from recession

Essex professor discusses studying war’s legacy in grief and the importance of history beyond Oxbridge 

Improved settlement for UK’s ‘biggest-ever’ doctoral training investment will deliver fewer funded PhD places than in previous years, UKRI confirms

Programme for young Americans to study in Ireland needs $40 million endowment to ensure future, founder says

In another edition of gloomy research indicators, major NSF tally finds companies nearing the basic science spending of the federal government

Professor leading Migration Advisory Committee warns home secretary that two-month timescale is ‘much shorter than normal’ and will ‘substantially limit evidence’ that can be considered

Efforts to recruit students from across the Taiwan Strait seen as attempt to boost sovereignty claim

Scientific method can inform an inclusiveness agenda that ‘works’, says former Blair adviser

Commission’s move following Percy affair provoking internal controversy, source claims

Heilbronn Institute director Catherine Hobbs warns that graduates of highly selective institutions are less likely to work in school sector

Science secretary concedes she could have written to agency ‘in confidence’ rather than tweeting concerns about Israel-Gaza views among EDI group

In fiscal 2025 budget plan constrained by his shutdown concession, president again seeks free-college deal while letting science agencies struggle

Baroness Shafik’s appearance before committee, in expected repeat of grilling that led to Harvard and Penn departures, described as not ‘voluntary’

In global survey, barely one in 10 academic leaders say they feel well prepared to address the challenges of providing competitive compensation

Amendments threaten jail term of up to five years without defining ‘reasonable cause’ exemption

Rather than ‘pre-emptively complying’ with Canberra’s stance on China, universities should contribute to a ‘nuanced’ debate

Plans to introduce 20 per cent ‘baseline’ for research time will harm university’s standing in academia and beyond, warns critic

Author of controversial book and journal paper takes up one-year ‘presidential scholar’ post after institutional takeover by allies of Ron DeSantis

Sinn Féin proposes bill in Irish Dáil that would make it an offence for landlords to seek sex in exchange for rental housing

After a career spent switching between academia and the White House, Joseph Nye admits that returning to Harvard left him feeling flat

Australian institutions say new research rules are not to blame as registration delays stretch on

Upgraded institutions seen as a way to meet talent demands in the Greater Bay Area

Funder keen to reconvene advisory group, but professor says he wants reassurance that lessons have been learned from controversial investigation

As pressure builds for the University of Idaho to reconsider buying the University of Phoenix, a similar previous deal a thousand miles to the south finds mounting scrutiny

Commentators under fire for doing their job should remember their ‘silent’ supporters, says author of harassment survival guide

Deal ‘an important step in PeerJ’s evolution’, co-founders say

Year after a strong boost, agency’s gamble on translational division gets knocked down as part of wider election-year retreat by Congress from federal science spending

Incumbent’s narrow margin of victory does little to assuage critics of her first five years in charge of union 

Jisc review finds UK ahead of global average on open access, but questions whether purportedly temporary measures are proving effective at driving change

Minister argues €900 million will have limited impact on science, but sector leaders are unconvinced

University lifts possibility of compulsory redundancies ahead of planned six-day walkout

Academic freedom is particularly at risk in countries with pronounced social and political polarisation, report says