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As pressure builds for the University of Idaho to reconsider buying the University of Phoenix, a similar previous deal a thousand miles to the south finds mounting scrutiny

Commentators under fire for doing their job should remember their ‘silent’ supporters, says author of harassment survival guide

Deal ‘an important step in PeerJ’s evolution’, co-founders say

Minister argues €900 million will have limited impact on science, but sector leaders are unconvinced

Year after a strong boost, agency’s gamble on translational division gets knocked down as part of wider election-year retreat by Congress from federal science spending

Incumbent’s narrow margin of victory does little to assuage critics of her first five years in charge of union 

Jisc review finds UK ahead of global average on open access, but questions whether purportedly temporary measures are proving effective at driving change

University lifts possibility of compulsory redundancies ahead of planned six-day walkout

Academic freedom is particularly at risk in countries with pronounced social and political polarisation, report says

Hepi report flags concerns over growth and quality of UK pre-degree programmes, but says across-the-board fee cut would be poor solution

Politicians are increasingly pushing for the facilitation of dual-use research, but university leaders are unsure

Some of the country’s biggest institutions have suffered bruising defeats of late despite the justice system generally favouring the powerful. What explains this losing streak and will it change anything?

Chinese institution says it wants to nurture ‘master-level strategic scientists’

Sector leaders express frustration as chancellor praises universities, but offers little additional money

Baroness Foster of Oxton falsely alleged that Oxford PhD student Melika Gorgianeh had displayed ‘disgusting antisemitic symbols’

UCU says minister ‘does not retain the confidence of the academic community, nor is she upholding good standards of professional conduct’

University known for politics, piety and scandal penalised for longstanding pattern of hiding reports of sexual abuses and other community safety concerns

While new Australian data identify regional universities as the most inequitable payers, experts highlight the ‘different conditions and challenges’

Leadership alliances and equity focus set to battle political interference and disillusion with candidates after strong gain in previous presidential poll

Three business school researchers who lost their jobs after their research was seen as not meeting strategic priorities win employment case

Heriot-Watt researcher Kate Sang says Michelle Donelan ‘made a cheap political point at my expense and caused serious damage to my reputation’

Michelle Donelan faces calls to apologise as equality committee at centre of Gaza free speech row set to reconvene

President Hugh Brady says new structures will provide ‘sandbox’ for interdisciplinary thinking and ‘shop window’ for industry engagement

Ewan McGaughey says ‘it’s not over’ after narrowly missing out on unseating incumbent Jo Grady

Thousands walk out, arguing that government should address low pay and poor working conditions before going ahead

Former universities minister warns that Conservatives’ ‘talking down’ of higher education sector will hit UK economy

Twenty-three UK universities have gaps larger than 20 percentage points between proportion of academics overall who are female and their share of professoriate

While ministers say they have fixed predecessors’ visa processing delays, published data suggests otherwise

Forced by DeSantis order, flagship fires officials but signals dissent and outlines plans to try hiring them back

Gianluca Grimalda says too many scientists are ‘unaware or not prepared to take action’ when it comes to addressing the impact of work travel on climate

Students feeling lonely and ‘underwhelmed’ by university experience, warns UPP Foundation report based on survey and focus groups

Companies’ lack of capacity to absorb ideas is big part of picture, says author on paper touted as evidence for economic failure of academic research

Reproducibility network aims to support researchers to share science openly, improving its applications and public support

Norwegian Medical Association says failure to recognise Danish training breaches European Economic Area law

Incumbent run close by King’s College London professor Ewan McGaughey in poll

Care needed to avoid scaring off doctoral students and burying officials in paperwork, senators hear

Rectors call for budget increases and wage rises for staff or institutions will soon be unable to function

Yale and Dartmouth moves to mandate SAT and ACT submissions have long-time opposition alliance getting testy about possible reversals across academia

Government considers whether number of entrants to universities in research-intensive grouping should still be a measure of school performance

Open peer review has ‘potential to be more thorough, inclusive and collegial’ than traditional journal-led route, funders and publishers say

University of London institutions announce plans to restructure departments, affecting dozens of jobs

Oxford analysts see no evidence of bump in applications ahead of introduction of new restrictions last month

Universities UK chief executive says funding crisis facing English universities means it is not impossible that an institution will ‘shut its doors overnight’

Conference hears that the quality of degrees is at least as important as the quantity and the disciplines

Computer science student says he can neither legally remain in Ukraine or leave the country after his visa was revoked

Classics-loving British transplant to the Ivy League describes the joy of translating ancient texts just for the gift of the intellectual struggle

Sector body aims to head off moves against graduate visa, saying it has boosted international enrolments by 600,000 and UK economy by £60 billion

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

English regulator considers changes to nationwide outreach programme after report finds impact is patchy

Article on MeToo movement in Iran named researcher, who denies wrongdoing, as ‘serial abuser’

Coalition pledges to consider landmark Australian report ‘in detail’

Overseas enrolment on postgraduate courses down at three-quarters of institutions responding to sector survey

Best way to stop proposed oversight body going rogue is to avoid setting it up in the first place, conference hears

Key recommendation in Australian sector review report is substantially different from its historical namesake

Development of ‘cold spots’ without arts and humanities programmes prompts calls for more strategic approach to university provision

Cornell University philosopher Kate Manne is calling out the discrimination – often blatant – faced by scholars deemed overweight

Former Republican senator wins praise for energy, ideas and willingness to engage on contentious issues

Rectors question how Macron can live up to promise to end underfunding of science

Academic leading sex and gender research review for government also criticises ‘shocking failure of leadership in sector’ after professor’s tribunal win against OU

Hesa examines association between productivity and skill levels at local authority level