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Officers draw on expertise from around the world as they deal with protests, extremist speakers and hate crimes

Royal Holloway professor Jeff Frank back at work after lengthy suspension over ‘farcical’ and ‘non-specific’ charges relating to union activity

Counting China’s first green billionaire among your mentees doesn’t hurt in funding applications, says UNSW professor

Rebalancing of global higher education promises end of era in which institutions all ‘strive to be the same as Harvard’, says professor

Creation of fake university seen as worrying but ultimately justified by sector leaders

Papers with females as senior authors significantly more likely to take account of sex

Larry Bacow calls campuses ‘far more adaptable and durable’ than sceptics claim

Chair of Migration Advisory Committee says target no longer influences policy on student migration

Durham, Imperial College and St Andrews all had a smaller share of first years from state schools in 2017-18 than Cambridge

Vice-chancellor predicts ‘very significant’ demand at Leipzig branch campus

US government funding $7.6 million (£5.9 million) project designed to give policymakers a quick indication of reproducibility

Bergen rector says UK's failure to commit to European student mobility overlooks importance of ties between Britain's north and Norway

Ramsay Centre proposal ‘crosses red lines’, says union

Foreign applications down 4 per cent, enrolments drop 1 per cent in ‘troubling’ sign for graduate schools

English minister says he opposes minimum grade thresholds for university entry and does not believe there is a ‘creeping culture of censorship’ on campus

Universities lobby enrolment target, while Jo Johnson leads drive for return of post-study work visas

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

New £5.7 million institute at the Technical University of Munich triggers ‘ethics washing’ debate

Researchers who trace links between academic supervisors and students claim that it can help to shed light on the nature of mentoring

Record rate applying among English 18-year-olds counters demographics but applications to lower-tariff institutions still struggling

Tributes paid to Chicago authority on Buddhism

The case of Phillip Adamo, an academic at Augsburg University, provokes debate about the taboos of discussing literature

Teachers must guide science students in how to ‘tell a story’ in their reports, write Anna Sajina and Sergei Sazhin

A mass exodus of talent prompted by political and humanitarian crisis leaves universities without staff or students left to teach

MIT expresses ‘deep sense of revulsion’ over Khashoggi killing but won’t override faculty choice of partners

Survey reveals many staff in UK universities are sceptical about the value of workload models

Academics call on university to denounce Mthuli Ncube after violent repression of protests

Automatic green cards for international PhD graduates at US universities could restore America’s ‘competitive advantage’, says Robert Zimmer

Academics assess the impact Meghan Markle may have in her new role as patron of the Association of Commonwealth Universities

Scholar warns that rising numbers of international university staff in Singapore could ‘make the academy more conservative’

Four institutions to pilot online module next year

But flagging Chinese applications could dampen future growth

Birkbeck is first institution to say it does not want to take credit for work of academics who left on bad terms

Researchers participating in China’s Thousand Talents initiative – aimed at luring scientists back home – urged to quit

Gift from the David and Claudia Harding Foundation is the biggest single donation made to a UK university by a British philanthropist

Cambridge economist uses nudity to make the case against the UK leaving the European Union and for ‘my body, my choice’

Brian Schmidt says system of last-minute offers persists because it is ‘easy’ for universities

Ucas figures for UK and EU students suggest that some higher tariff universities have seen dents in intakes this year

Unsupportive senior staff and ‘unjust’ promotion practices are major problems reported by black female professors, says equity researcher

In what may be a tactical pullback, Trump administration reduces reach of wide-reaching bid to empower for-profit sector

Research agencies tight-lipped about global initiative, but are talking behind the scenes

Ljubljana-led, Warwick-founded alliance aims to ensure even spread of development across EU regions and maintain UK collaboration

Institutions could have an important role in rebuilding the country, but the latest crisis could push them over the edge

Amid strident debates, undergraduate attitudes reflect expert appeal for case-by-case considerations

Colleges warned their declines in foreign students could worsen if they do not pay more attention to global quality deliberations

Negotiations with Taylor & Francis collapse over cost as journal outages spread across Europe

Independent colleges ‘defined by what they’re not, not what they are’, Teqsa report says

Striking a different tone from that of his predecessor, Chris Skidmore says value for money is about ‘much more’ than graduate salary figures

Sussex vice-chancellor predicts ‘variable’ approach to regulatory support for vulnerable institutions

Report from Clarivate Analytics’ Institute for Scientific Information suggests more nuanced ways of analysing research impact

Dressing ‘sexy’ can negatively influence perceptions of competence, effort and performance, finds new study

The idea of mistakes being intrinsic to success has become an educational mantra – but for many students and academics, messing up is not an option

Funding councils acknowledge that policy U-turn may have 'unintended consequences for individuals'

Tributes paid to historian who transformed our understanding of early modern England

The architect of Plan S tells of his next move to become a university leader in Eindhoven and discusses the art of not taking life too seriously

Ucas data show that, at three institutions, three-quarters of all offers made to applicants were unconditional

While China’s intensification puts regional rivals in the shade, it casts a spotlight on progress in the special administrative region

Christopher Hunt shared row with precious remains after granting of ‘passport’

Universities and scholars told to establish ‘the boundaries of acceptable speech’ as staff report meetings with managers over online activities

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