Europe

Former minister wary of ‘policy that would throw the engines of social mobility in higher education into reverse’

Scale of unsuccessful funding bids will be ‘dispiriting’ for researchers and raises questions about ‘substantial differences’ in research landscape, Oxford professor warns

Graduates would pay higher contributions over shorter time to make system ‘self-funding’ and solve funding crisis in proposal from dataHE co-founder

Technology’s disruption of traditional career paths should push universities into focusing on ‘human skills’ students need to succeed, say Demos and University of London

Sally Mapstone on why university funding problems are too urgent for ‘something more radical’ or a review – and what she really thinks about corduroy

The general secretary’s visibility makes her a natural target for discontent, but many of the blunders arose from committee decisions, says Dyfrig Jones

Unless we get an X-ray machine, the guard room will be inadvertently signing for dubious deliveries for the foreseeable future, says George Bass

Former adviser to Tory ministers criticises government for asking monarch to ‘speak negatively of national asset’

Disagreements over equality issues mentioned in science secretary’s Israel letter must be swiftly addressed, says ex-research council head

Teaching and research have been run from different parts of Whitehall since 2016, and sector leaders say this has to change

Union misses 50 per cent threshold for first time since holding sector-wide votes, leaving future of dispute in the balance

Publishers face being ‘mere service providers’ under new vision, but critics question whether global adoption of proposals will be any wider than their predecessors