Europe

Current head of Worcestershire County Council will succeed Mary Curnock Cook

New institutions across the world believe that they can compete with big-name universities that are stuck in the past, explains Jack Grove

New data allow greater scrutiny of student retention in England’s ‘challenger’ institutions

Transparency ‘crucial’ to the introduction of new metrics in Continent’s research system

Teenagers who received personalised letters more likely to get into Russell Group institutions

Issuing press releases without allowing access to the original research criticised by UK politicians

Matthew Reisz discusses the preliminary results of the National Senior Management Survey

Expert who advised policymakers on the automotive industry remembered

Richard Garner explores the tactics that communications teams need in a changing media landscape

Three-quarters of respondents are dissatisfied with the people running their institutions

All three of England’s for-profit universities owned in Netherlands

George Soros-funded institution could be ‘first victim’ of increasingly illiberal world order, observers say