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While supervisors say protracted shifts are a crucial part of medical education, new research finds no benefit

Lord Willetts warns mooted reforms of student finance system could backfire politically

Research collaboration ‘should be as important to the government as security’ and should not be a ‘knock-on consequence of other negotiations’, says report

Increasing Framework Programme 9 backing to €160 billion (£139.7 billion) would create 650,000 jobs by 2030, says open letter

Teenagers have completed three-year programme of after-school tuition

Taped recording of a university lecturer threatening students is viewed more than 80,000 times

Critical acclaim for Admissions, about the experience of a white student and a black student applying to Yale University

Industrial action at UK universities a ‘seminal moment’, say academics

Advance HE will be a supportive friend to higher education as England’s new regulator gets tough, explains chief executive Alison Johns

UK Essays said that its ghostwritten papers provided a ‘guaranteed grade, every time’

Head of Koç University says international researchers are applying to institution despite political landscape

Demonstrations opposing ‘biggest cut’ to higher education funding planned in five major cities

Durham academics Ernesto Schwartz-Marín and his wife Arely Cruz-Santiago were told to leave after spending too long conducting humanitarian work abroad

Fixation with students’ scores on national ATAR scale constrains teaching innovation in schools, says report

University of Waterloo president says modern universities must combine research and creativity 

Minister says the UK has much to learn from Israel’s scientific excellence and entrepreneurial flair

Announcements are part of wider initiative to increase number of training places by 1,500 over three years

Copyright policy would bar staff at University of Nottingham from objecting to edited versions of their own lectures, which could be used during a strike

An expanding research misconduct investigation has stretched its net from the chilly Baltic to an idyllic Queensland island and the grasslands of Saskatchewan

Most international students who stay in Australia after they graduate cannot find jobs in their fields

Opposition of Labor and Greens means that measure proposed in December's mid-year budget update is unlikely to pass

Middle Eastern country has the resources to ‘invest appropriately’ in universities, says UCL head

Internationalisation expert says universities should only proceed with new collaborations if there is backing from scholars 

Universities UK to appoint panel to explore methodology and assumptions behind pension scheme’s £6.1 billion deficit

Students’ union says major report suggests that humanities degrees are ‘not worthwhile’

US-based ARTiFACTS system is claimed to be first ‘fully functional’ blockchain-based system for recording research process

Institutions in many states are facing large funding cuts, although some have received a boost in income

Project encourages students to explore the past of Roehampton’s Georgian mansions and teacher training colleges

Aston researchers calculate the tensile forces at work when Spider-Man prevents a ship from splitting in two

Higher education institutions are well placed to develop solutions to harassment and assault, says University of Southern California provost

Perth’s Murdoch University backs away from radical move to reboot staff conditions

UCU appeal is latest escalation of row over future of Universities Superannuation Scheme

The latest edition of Times Higher Education discussed by the editorial team

Survey of more than 5,000 students fuels debate about cross-subsidies in English higher education

Creating a separate pot of money for international research ‘risks funding second-rate’ work, conference hears

Research fellowship will explore how the US civil rights leader’s work could improve relations between academics and administrators

The De Montfort University professor discusses growing up as one of nine children, her work to improve the diets of children in the UK, and how academia turned out not to be a nine-to-five job

Architects of merged league table say results show how old hierarchies are outdated, but pre-92 institutions still dominate

Sophie Inge speaks to two sets of job-sharers about the pros and cons of dividing an academic role

Hepi report warns that surge in youth population and higher participation will add to government’s funding headache in England 

Tributes paid to expert on the Scottish Enlightenment

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

University and College Union calls for regulator to close loophole that allows institutions to omit details of housing perks from annual statements

Benefits appear to come from exposure to campus life rather than quality teaching, Australian researchers find

Latest skirmish in war of words sparked by claims of Chinese meddling on Australian campuses, and Canberra’s new foreign interference laws

Female students at the Sunan Kalijaga State Islamic University in Yogyakarta must stop wearing full-face veils if they wish to graduate, rector warns

Former rector of Recep Tayyip ErdoÄŸan University is sentenced to four years on alleged terrorist charges

New outpost does not undermine commitment to remain in Budapest, institution insists

Revised edition reignites debate about value of journal ratings in academia

Analysis of data underlying the latest ranking shows how Asia, Europe and North America are quite different in terms of the most open disciplines

Cambridge v-c says professor’s ‘exceptional contributions to scientific knowledge and the popularisation of science and mathematics have left an indelible legacy’

Academics with higher qualifications or more experience could get higher scores in subject-level teaching excellence framework

Programme closures at Australian Catholic University are more disruptive than previously realised

Universities UK describes decision as ‘hugely disappointing’

Ernesto Schwartz-Marín and his wife Arely Cruz-Santiago told that their family has just 14 days to leave country

Scholarship scheme set up from funds raised by the campaign aims to promote future generations of women in research

Political appointees to governing councils are ‘the weakest and most provincial ones we’ve ever had’, says Universities Austria 

Tan Eng Chye says teaching models ‘cannot afford to keep still’, even if some students are reluctant to study programming

Agreement raises hopes that strike action could be suspended later this week

Impact of diplomatic tensions between the two countries may yet be to bite