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New approach ‘a great outcome’ for those fearing impacts of the ‘most bone-headed idea ever’

Existing students able to complete courses as usual, but universities face question mark over autumn recruitment

Ucas analysis suggests online learning may not have suited students with disabilities, who were more inclined to delay their degree

Marketing should include data on dropout rates and graduate outcomes, English institutions told

Regulator warns on dependency on Chinese students and potential impact of cost-of-living crisis, despite overall positive picture

Fewer scholars from Italy, Germany, France and Netherlands working in British universities, says report

UUK letter to minister says it is ‘unclear what evidence is available’ to back claim that external schemes threaten free speech and requests meeting

While policy incentivises retention, approved leaves of absence are counted as attrition

Vote on whether to accept constitution that would overturn decades of private-led education said to be on a knife-edge

Universities’ difficulties in addressing their share of a national crisis may ease demand, but turning away ambitious foreigners is still a ‘missed opportunity’ for the country

Policy welcome, but Japan ‘must address uncertainty’ around future Covid waves, academics say

Bill opens door to ‘vexatious’ lawsuits against universities and to ministerial ‘control-freakery’ on overseas funding, warn Lord Willetts and Lord Johnson

Move to ‘break down barriers’ and create ‘parity of esteem’ through whole system approach seen as potential model for England

While Covid may have ushered record numbers of Australians to university, a chipper labour market is luring them away again

Latin American leader aims to hire 100 elite faculty, drawing needed talent to developing world

Religious requirements tripled, forcing some institutions to make cuts to core courses

Analysis suggests philosophy professor’s old department may net as much as £333,000 from the activities that saw her targeted by activists

The number of assignments per term has been going up and up; is continuous assessment now harming, rather than helping, students’ learning?

Expanded government support will fund two-year research fellowships for 130 Ukrainian academics, says science minister

Estimated 180,000 students – mostly low-income women – face disruption to academic careers as states allowed to forbid female healthcare

Higher education analysts mull China’s continued attractiveness as a student destination amid its zero-Covid policy and scant foreign student returnees

Dearth of data undermines understanding of cancel culture and other campus codes of silence

Parisian professor says hers is the first to appoint a selection committee by lot, an approach that should be taken up nationwide

English institutions told to ‘reflect carefully’ on whether initiatives such as Race Equality Charter are in conflict with duty to uphold free speech

Office for Students accounts also confirm £915,000 payment to for-profit college that successfully challenged refusal of registration in court

While some fields have been exempted from a contentious imposition on international doctoral students, sector still fears overkill

Sole courtroom victor in three years of prosecutions says jurors needed to hear that institutions went along, and then believe that nobody was hurt

Starmer also expected to consider ‘fudge’ manifesto pledge to review university funding, with party set to drop Corbyn-era policy

Ditching high-profile pledge to spend £300 million more on maths research over next five years will harm under-pressure discipline, experts warn

World’s biggest bibliographic database claims MetaDoor is ‘misappropriating’ its catalogue to drive it out of business

President must learn to work with a fragmented parliament, but experts say likely allies will back his push to liberalise higher education

Winners of internal competitions will not be eligible for research council grants, as power shifts to government

Universities urged to rule out taking advantage of planned redrawing of UK legislation