Europe

Researchers say precariously employed academics will lose out if universities are required to stump up fees for open access

Recruiting underprepared students is damaging the classroom experience and is soul-crushing for teachers, says a UK lecturer

Tory deputy chair expected to take on higher education brief

Conservative to step down as MP at next general election

Bill adds to £15,000 cost of damages paid by science secretary to professor over suggestion she had expressed sympathy for Hamas

Universities in the same city region clash over proposed rebrand

Author among lecturers at under-fire institution to oppose plans that union says are ‘unprecedented in scale, intensity and speed’

Report on ‘voices from the frontline’ aims to dispel degree apprenticeship misconceptions like that of middle-class takeover

Further government investment is needed to ensure UK is a ‘leading country in the G7 on R&D’, say universities, research charities and learned societies

Regulator outlines how institutions could respond to various scenarios as it prepares to exercise new duties

Holyrood government doubles down on fee-free policy despite warnings of underinvestment

New vetting committee for candidates is reminiscent of ‘eastern-bloc style managed democracy’, says Conservative MP