Europe

Periodicals ejected from scheme after failing to meet open access publishing targets

Elite universities harbour doubts about shift away from rewarding proven research excellence, says Manchester vice-president, though sector broadly welcomes changes for next assessment exercise

Five years on, higher education’s attitude towards student-faculty relationships is very different, says a UK-based academic

About two-thirds of providers decreased their carbon emissions over the past year, Hesa data shows

Union would end medical school’s 15-year search for a partner

University says 77 professional staff and 36 academics will go, on top of those taking voluntary severance

Groups of leading African and European universities will jointly fund at least a decade of priority research through clusters agreed in the first half of this year, although the delicate details of who gives what are yet to be decided

Young people with asylum status say they struggle to get admissions teams to understand immigration rules and recognise their academic track records

Interventions from universities urging a restart of talks struggle to move the dial, with hopes of preventing summer of disruption fading

Study finds that students experienced psychological distress levels more than three times worse than before the pandemic

Report reveals that total recovery of full economic costs was a 5 per cent deficit across the sector

Sector leaders and academics from across the UK are recognised in the first King’s Birthday Honours list