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Europe’s university alliances must go further to truly integrate HE

The central goal should be simple: seamless student movement without obstacles regarding the recognition of courses, says Gregor Majdič

Physics postdocs ‘losing faith in UK careers’ after STFC cuts

Only 8 per cent of early career physicists would advise others to pursue career in UK research after downturn in postdoc funding, survey finds

Scottish education minister condemns 190 more job cuts at Dundee

University says further savings needed to ‘survive’ but Màiri McAllan urges pause to ‘interrogate the evidence’

‘Brain architects, not babysitters’: Norland aims for university title

Amid concern over graduate outcomes and the declining value of a degree, one UK higher education provider that boasts a practically perfect employability record is setting its sights on official...

State lawmakers reshape general education requirements

Scores of universities join interdisciplinary research network

Higher education institutions across 15 countries join global programme focusing on best practice and cross-border partnership

Compliance ‘more important than education’ on research ethics

The likelihood of investigation and the severity of punishment have most influence on whether experienced academics take a chance on dodgy research

Populist parties flag international education crackdown

Maverick Australian politicians vow to deport dropouts and slash enrolments, as erstwhile fringe party claims the ascendancy

Specialist master’s ‘main victims’ of course-cutting spree

More than 300 social sciences programmes lost in past year, figures show, as critics bemoan decisions made on enrolment numbers alone

Fee hike in French-speaking Belgium ‘shifts burden on to students’

Rising cost of tuition more about plugging government deficit than helping fund higher education, say rectors

The risk of collaboration with China is smaller than the cost of curbing it

National security is not strengthened by making Australia smaller and less attractive to scientific talent, say James Laurenceson and Wanning Sun

Sheffield Hallam drops plan to employ staff via subsidiary firm

University to keep employing academics directly after predictions that contribution rates to Teachers’ Pension Scheme will come down

Will race-based scholarships survive in the US?

Marking boycotters face heavy sanctions as assessments disrupted

Edinburgh extends pay deductions to those who refuse to cover for colleagues taking part in industrial action

Universities too reliant on cuts to balance the books – Blunkett

Former education secretary says mergers the solution for institutions in financial crisis as he calls for more ‘ambition’ in higher education