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In fiscal 2023 budget plan, president seeks to bolster student and research grants, but without specific eye on community colleges and immigrant children

Allan Goodman tells THE that need to keep pace with other nations could push issue up political agenda

Hundreds of academics refuse to take part in system as part of ongoing industrial action, prompting institutions to draw up contingency plans

Campuses almost devoid of people nevertheless remained hotbeds of sexual harassment and assault

As Ukrainian universities resume online teaching, experts say longer-term solutions must avoid brain drain and look to post-war recovery

Cabinet minister says he would like to see new institutions in places like Doncaster, Wigan and Grimsby

Canberra’s policy changes helped turn its big-ticket infrastructure schemes into pipe dreams, university-industry report argues

Clash of views on whether controversial legislation’s support is dwindling and whether it will be carried over to next session of Parliament

Turbulence caused by pandemic may have reduced appetite for radical reform of research assessment and rewards, suggests study

After fighting off attempt to expel them, academics resign from learned academy over ‘untoward political focus’

Announcement comes amid growing criticism of extra regulatory load placed on universities by reforms 

With new divisions at NIH and NSF, federal government making long-promised structural changes to get universities and their scientists beyond their silos

Ministers halt funding to programmes with ‘state and institutional collaborators’ but ‘small number’ of partnerships remain under review

Findings from Dutch confessional covering methods, supervision and publishing likely to be repeated in other countries, authors say

Study finds that staff welcome better work-life balance but still face barriers

Penalties for student snitches and curbs on Confucius Institutes and Thousand Talents Programme among dozens of recommendations from security committee

Four in five postgraduates who responded to union survey say they are likely to leave sector

As debut film portrays academia as racist to the core, Mariama Diallo talks of love for her Yale experience but even tougher realities than she could show

Ukraine war focuses attention on future of island and role of universities in defence

EU officials want to take money for Chips Act, but government purseholders have ruled out using unspent project funds to replace it

New Zealand now perceived poorly on factors where it used to excel, survey finds

Berkeley dormitory crisis offers broad warning that higher education won’t meet equity goals if students have no place to live

Major survey of almost 4,000 firms finds work with institutions at national and international level is a large slice of collaboration activity

Close reading of ERC Starting Grant proposals finds secrets to success and raises concerns about smoke and mirrors from narrative CVs

Deal includes prestigious Cell Press and Lancet journals

Signatories of letter urging peace include dozens of top academics and Nobel prizewinner

Huge national survey finds that half of students know little or nothing about formal reporting mechanisms

University leavers jumped 40 per cent in 2021, according to government figures

Potential for ‘mass cancellation of gap years’ in rush for 2022 entry as finance expert warns 2023 starters could face huge hike in costs

War in Ukraine may reshape university internationalisation, but most academics do not expect a knockout blow

University-led projects ‘directly supporting local employers, jobs, and communities’ at risk, UUK tells government

‘Task force’ to facilitate two-way flow of students and graduates

Withdrawal of honorary degree from government race review chair raises Tory ire, while OfS chief executive says legislation would allow it to act on such cases

Researcher shrugs off ban, saying Russians are ‘used to avoiding such useless regulations’

Renaissance historian will be first woman to lead the Russell Group institution

Long-standing issues put into sharp focus as expert predicts half of students pursuing medicine abroad fail to become doctors

In spite of announcing no net value in the Trump-era clampdown, Biden prosecutors persist with unclear evidence against Kansas scientist

Head of Cardiff University’s new social sciences centre says virtual working has not dented the case for new ‘superlab’

Sunny start to the latest round of UK industrial action couldn’t mask the frustrations felt by many union members

Parliamentarians clash on funding discretion and whether it should continue, but agree on need for ARC review

Holberg Prize winner Sheila Jasanoff says policy implications of technological progress deserve far greater study

Professor says he accepts it may be necessary for ties to be cut to some institutions in the country   

Unions want Staffordshire University to stop hiring new employees through a subsidiary company on ‘inferior terms’

Ostensibly family-friendly work arrangements assumed to benefit women can have the opposite effect, a study of academics’ lockdown experiences suggests

East-West schism widened by Russian academia being cut off from world, says scholar

Access to many courses will remain free, says head of Mooc pioneer, with participants charged for exams, interaction and certificates

Senior officer dismissed because of cluster of cases at university in Jilin

Platform responds to online criticism by telling researchers they would be reported to their funders

Head of IEAA tells UUK forum that government’s approach is about helping ‘corporate Australia’, not students

Global horrors reverberate in far-off campuses, widening the gap between students and their prosperous surrounds

First post-Brexit figures show limited demand in Europe for bespoke visa scheme designed to bring top researchers to the UK

Blow to new UK research agency as Peter Highnam steps back for ‘personal reasons’

EU governments told to reconcile contradictory national rules if cornerstone of popular alliance-building programme is to be realised

Economic uncertainty may have encouraged students to stay in education despite campus closures, says UK statistics body

Universities will be told what approaches to online education fail to meet Office for Students' requirements as government pushes for return to face-to-face education

Tory former minister who abolished binary divide says hierarchy should be on ‘educational quality’ only – and sector ‘still not properly accountable’

Two genetics experts with series of shared attributes enjoy collaborating, but suspect coincidences not bloodlines

Grassroots effort by linguists seeks to lift up non-native English speakers, many of whom cannot afford professional proofreaders

Biomedical engineer talks about problem-solving, the importance of monitoring foetal cardiac health and why no one has got it quite right on STEM education for women

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