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It’s the ‘start of a revolution’, students chant in third week of protests

Trailblazers of a molecule linking technique honoured, including one who becomes a laureate for the second time

European finance ministers told to abandon ‘absurd’ plan to shift unspent Horizon funding elsewhere in their squeezed 2023 budget

Princeton ‘lifer’ moves to Cambridge without ever totally shaking off her outsider status

French ministry wants universities to use unallocated funds to cover up to 500 per cent increases in energy costs

Nation’s top doctor, a celebrity after Covid, says he’d like a campus posting to write, lecture and share 60 years of experience

Claim universities feed students ‘anti-British history’ was ‘cheap wisecrack’ when ‘mature debate’ needed, says ex-No 10 adviser

Research by Nobel laureates is now being used for encrypted communications, says Nobel Prize committee

Union achieves key aim of 2017 Bell review of sector organisations

Advocates abandon Melbourne seminar over Australia’s answer to Diversity Champions Programme, citing presence of opponents

But political scientists and politician-scientist say the country’s rightward shift poses ‘no risk’ to academic freedom or international recruitment

As legal challenge gains, Congress avoids renewing provision seen letting elite campuses tie financial offers to student ability to pay

New York-based manga comic expert claims withdrawal of Karl Andersson’s controversial paper may ‘stifle innovation and scholarship’ in future

Scholars warn that Tokyo’s cash injection will reward the few over the many, pushing top institutions closer to industry at the expense of basic research, social sciences and humanities

Biden administration comes to the party, as cash-strapped regional institution seeks new ‘development partners’

Minister’s comments at Conservative conference reignite culture wars over universities

Strong critic of Chinese human rights abuses takes on brief after hiatus of several months

New home secretary concerned about dependants ‘piggybacking’ on family members’ student visas

Philip Augar issues warning on LLE, but Lord Willetts fears new government ‘would like to’ restrict higher education entry

Svante Pääbo follows in footsteps of his father, a fellow Nobel laureate

Iain Mansfield warns ‘widespread discrimination’ against wealthier students weakens university funding case

Sorin Cîmpeanu accused of ‘trying to legislate in his own interest’ for draft law that would introduce amnesty for plagiarism more than three years ago

Demand and quality questioned by businesses and universities as reforms leave majority of STEM courses at full length

Academics believe regime is ‘unlikely’ to silence ‘spirit of opposition’ gaining momentum across hundreds of campuses

Mamokgethi Phakeng describes journey from guilt over taking time out to learning to relax into a much-needed break

Top Korean institution announces change of direction for its first venture into the US

English regulator announces long-awaited thresholds higher education providers must meet to avoid the risk of sanctions

Republican-led jurisdictions join private borrower in court claims citing tax losses and other harms from $300 billion giveaway

Hopes that formalisation of economist’s imprisonment could trigger his early release

Auckland case illustrates fine line between political expression and potentially dangerous incitement

At an institution already known for inclusivity, Valerie Sheares Ashby plans to apply those values to her ambitions to grow UMBC’s infrastructure and research activity

Virtual exchanges and microcredentials off the table until rules are redrawn

Steep rise in dropouts blamed on cost of living as inflation erodes value of student finance