Europe

Perhaps the EU could give additional assurances that it would apply corrections if the UK won significantly less funding than it put in, suggests Jan Palmowski

Longitudinal Education Outcomes data has been published annually since 2017

European governments are beginning to take an interest in techniques to link scant evidence, as the euphoria about the benefits of mega datasets wanes

International students contribute nearly £12 billion a year to the government’s priority areas for levelling up, says James Pitman 

Demand from older students could be falling because of expansion of opportunity for 18-year-olds over the past decade

Former Oxford v-c Louise Richardson is wrong to dismiss the need for a free speech tsar in a massified system, says Ian Pace 

Keith Brown likens academics taking part in ‘shameful’ industrial action to those who ‘build their lives on the shattered dreams of others’

Patrick Zaki earned gender studies master’s remotely after serving 22 months in pre-trial detention for writing about the experiences of Egypt’s Coptic Christians during studies in Italy

Highly ranked university makes investment in staff salaries amid bitter national pay dispute

Learned societies question quality of data, mismatch to EU goals, choice of indicators and ignorance of social and political contexts used by planned monitoring tool

Research funder investing in leadership capability to support academics and encourage collaboration across disciplines and sectors

Analysis shows 17 of 20 seats in England with lowest proportion of university qualifications are held by Tories