Dutch universities struggle to hit female professor targets Interventions such as women-only fellowships have improved gender balance – but some professoriates are still more than 85 per cent male By David Matthews 20 December
Teenage hacker behind university network attacks spared jail Jack Chappell launched distributed denial of service attack against Janet service By Chris Havergal 19 December
Cross-border academic ‘pushed out of UK’ by healthcare delay Scholar who lives in Germany and works in UK blames Brexit after waiting months for certificate By Ellie Bothwell 19 December
A salamander and a Star Trek uniform: perfect Christmas gifts for academics Got some last minute scholarly Christmas shopping to do? Glen Wright has got your back By Glen Wright 18 December
Student visa rules loosened at 23 more UK universities in pilot Scheme streamlines immigration process for master's courses and allows graduates to stay in the UK for six months in search of work By Rachael Pells 18 December
English universities risk multimillion-pound fines under OfS Proposed penalties for intuitions that fall foul of new regulator called “eye-watering” By Holly Else 18 December
Labour’s student vote ‘could melt away’ over Brexit backing Hepi/YouthSight poll finds 68 per cent of students now back the party, up from 55 per cent prior to June’s general election By Chris Havergal 18 December
I was part of a successful EU funding bid, but as a UK academic I am not needed now Clare McGlynn is not surprised that the UK was overlooked as a focus country after a successful EU funding bid By Clare McGlynn 17 December
Moocs can still bring higher education to those who really need it It may be five years since Moocs went mainstream, but Diana Laurillard and Eileen Kennedy believe they still have the potential to reach the hard-to-reach By Diana Laurillard 16 December
Moocs focus ‘distracted universities from other online tools’ Following hype over their potential, online courses drained senior management time to the detriment of open educational resources, conference hears By David Matthews 14 December
New guidelines set to steer UK v-cs away from pay panels ‘Spurious’ justifications for executive pay criticised as one leader claims furore will ‘blow over’ By Chris Havergal 14 December
Stephen Bax, 1960-2017 Academic whose research interests were shaped by an African childhood remembered By Matthew Reisz 14 December