Europe

New schemes will provide grants to master’s and PhD students and postdoctoral researchers

Ethics modules ordered after warnings from students’ union that misconduct is on the rise

Staff at 65 UK higher education institutions are entering their fourth week of strike action

Minister says universities ‘will no longer be able to hide if their teaching quality is not up to the world-class standard that we expect’

Brexit has provided the ‘stimulation’ for higher education institutions in the two countries to ramp up their relationship

Universities anticipate much greater scrutiny of teaching outcomes, potentially even ‘peer review’ of lectures

Pro-science party failed to make inroads against populist movements

Leading psychiatrist Sir Simon Wessely raises concern about ‘over-professionalisation and over-medicalisation of normal emotions’

Further walkouts would target exam period between April and June

Disappointment after European Parliament, which must ratify Brexit deal, strikes tougher than hoped for line against the UK

Publish before your viva, distinguish opportunities from time-drains and have a strong online profile, says Helen Coleman

The next warden of Rhodes House on growing up in a family of political refugees and why universities must prepare graduates to be good citizens