Europe

Four Fields Medal winners and former European Research Council president among advisory board for independent research institute

UCU committee backs escalating action in February and March after rejecting employers’ initial pay rise offer

Admissions service also making changes to teacher references, and plans to release details of grade profiles that were accepted onto courses

Incidents including a student leader using the words ‘the final solution’ left Jewish students feeling like ‘pariahs’ within the UK student body

Union’s higher education committee meets to finalise next steps in campaign after messy debate

Data lay bare how Russell Group institutions have hit the brakes after years of expansion, as post-92s make up ground

London’s revered ‘night university’ enters bicentenary year mired in financial crisis

Westminster government criticised by sector over 2.8 per cent uplift as concern mounts over impact of cost-of-living crisis on students

Ban could prompt brain drain, warn experts, while university foundations are likely to be restocked with loyalists

George Freeman ‘still pushing’ and ‘still hopeful’ on association, but thinks forthcoming plan for UK global science role could be catalyst

Ensuring students are involved in interventions will help tackle stigma and end ‘culture of silence’, experts say

Covid-19 trials were as well designed, if not better designed, than other, similar medical experiments, finds Oxford study