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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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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