Europe

Senior management may be responding to national requirements, but fundamental, sustainable change needs more work, says Pat O’Connor

Vice-chancellor and union rep make rare joint statement appealing to national negotiators to resolve dispute

Economist Nicholas Barr, whose research shaped Labour’s 2006 fee policy, says mixed graduate tax and loan system can fix funding crisis

PhD candidates face ‘inconsistencies and inequalities’ in the support provided by supervisors, says British Academy-funded study

Wide-ranging new powers aimed at cancelling cancel culture predicted to have a ‘seismic’ impact on English universities

Gatekeeping systems used by big brand institutions ‘legitimise race and class inequalities’, scholars claim in book

Census data shows 44 per cent of adult residents born outside the UK had a higher education qualification

Reinforcing public support for student immigration is vital amid increasingly hostile rhetoric from politicians, says Wendy Alexander

Challenge of balancing huge international expansion with sustainability leaves academic-turned-politician urging careful thinking

Mechanism needed to stem ‘unlimited recruitment’ by wealthy institutions and resulting job cuts at other universities, say UCU activists

Increased contributions to the Teachers’ Pensions Scheme will require cuts to student support services, warns Graham Baldwin

Investigation will look at whether enough has been done to welcome Jewish students and staff