Politics

Plans to dismantle institutions including Istanbul University are part of efforts to exert more political control over academia, critics say

Indian lecturer joins with British colleagues to promote literature of those formerly called ‘untouchables’

Historian says Trump could attract educated young people if he promised to tackle their debts, while rector tells summit Czech universities remain ‘strongholds of critical discourse’

Provost of Hungary’s Central European University tells conference that autonomy is in jeopardy across continent

Universities cannot become Gardens of Eden without losing their key purpose, writes Hanna Holborn Gray

Magdeburg university head reveals scale of threats he received after controversy over right-wing AfD speakers

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Law firm says legal claim can now progress after 1,000 people joined class action

It’s time for students to step in and end the political stalemate on stopping gun violence on university campuses, says Sarah Kenny

Education committee chair Rob Halfon says ‘sanctions’ should be applied where numbers of disadvantaged students stall or decline

Poverty Commission finds ‘clear link’ between social class and poverty in English tertiary education

Emma Briant defends actions over exchanges with key figures from Leave.EU and Cambridge Analytica parent

Politicians’ disparagement of historian’s research signals that alternative interpretations of the city state’s past will not be tolerated, says Linda Lim

Katie Perrior says tuition fees are a ‘crazy subject’ for Conservatives to tackle Labour over in England

Labour attacks department’s green light for ‘University Campus of Football Business’ name

The Office for Students’ arrival marks a new era of higher education regulation but it can also learn much from its predecessor's successes, argues Tim Melville-Ross

From MI5 recruiting, to students spying on each other and intelligence agencies funding research, Matthew Reisz explores the long and often uneasy relationship between espionage and the academy

Ten years into the programme, German universities remain focused on traditional markers of success, say Andreas Knie and Dagmar Simon

French president claims that ‘professional agitators’ are behind campus occupations

Students and high-earning graduates set to face 6.3 per cent interest following March’s retail price index figures

Legislation making its way through Parliament could help address ‘brand confusion’ overseas

Figures on student numbers suggest that 2012 funding reforms in England have already fundamentally changed the OU 

Study calls for more focus on providing citizenship education to those on vocational track

Centre will combine basic research with practical solutions to grand challenges

As Beijing and Canberra trade blows over foreign interference and academic freedom, leading analyst predicts things will get worse before they get better

University strategising in the days before JoJo, BoJo and Brexit was more back-patting than visionary, but what universities need now is a plan for survival, says John Cater 

Cost pressures rule out a resumption of uncapped system as we know it, former top bureaucrat says

Universities may close centres or be forced to register employees as foreign agents as a result of investigations, say experts

History shows that the Belt and Road initiative will be successful only if it boosts human capital, as well as physical infrastructure, says Alan Ruby

Seoul pulls funding from Johns Hopkins centre, sparking row over interference

Head of Spanish capital's local government investigated over accusations related to her master’s degree

Pleas by Conservative backbenchers for an intervention to help the OU ignore the fact that they recently made it harder to assist under-pressure institutions, says Pam Tatlow

As a parliamentary committee calls for an independent review of Prevent, Steven Greer and Lindsey Bell argue that too much criticism of the anti-extremism programme is based on myths

Tribhuvan University alumni make up almost all of Nepal’s government, but interference from political parties distracts from research and learning goals, says vice-chancellor

Rigid, top-down tie-ups will do nothing to foster quality or European identity, says Jan Palmowski

Experts question whether 60 universities granted special status will face budget cuts or be free from interference

Delay and unpredictability of spending bill raises questions over the ‘effectiveness’ of increased investment, say policy experts

Providers fear funding changes could impede disadvantaged Australians’ road to university

Espionage proposals trigger tit-for-tat claims by rival groups of academics

If elements of society feel they have no stake in humanities and social science research, their support for it will evaporate, warns Musa al-Gharbi

As Macron government seeks major reforms, allegations emerge that academics were among attackers at university 

Sector leaders decry ‘censorship’, but outright ban on expressing political opinions is not mandatory for now

Lawyer for Clara Ponsati, the former Catalan education minister whose extradition is sought by Spain, says she will hand herself in

Coalition government back-pedals on a bill to impose lifetime borrowing caps on learners

Allegations that ‘snowflake’ students are routinely restricting freedom of speech are overblown, says parliamentary inquiry

University finances artificially inflated by government’s failed attempt to cut funding earlier this decade

Psychologist Michal Kosinski’s work shows how digital footprints can predict a person’s sexual orientation, political views and more. Is it a danger or a warning about threats to privacy? John Morgan reports from California

Will the current blockade on Qatar harm its higher education system? Simon Baker investigates whether the need to find common scientific ground among Gulf states could win out

New South African president Cyril Ramaphosa’s first budget confirmed funding for hundreds of thousands of students to be exempted from tuition fees, writes Martin Hall 

Lord Willetts warns mooted reforms of student finance system could backfire politically

Taped recording of a university lecturer threatening students is viewed more than 80,000 times

Demonstrations opposing ‘biggest cut’ to higher education funding planned in five major cities

Durham academics Ernesto Schwartz-Marín and his wife Arely Cruz-Santiago were told to leave after spending too long conducting humanitarian work abroad

Opposition of Labor and Greens means that measure proposed in December's mid-year budget update is unlikely to pass

Students’ union says major report suggests that humanities degrees are ‘not worthwhile’

Documents published on the Office for Students’ website have raised further questions about its independence, accountability and powers, says Gill Evans

Institutions in many states are facing large funding cuts, although some have received a boost in income

Survey of more than 5,000 students fuels debate about cross-subsidies in English higher education

Hepi report warns that surge in youth population and higher participation will add to government’s funding headache in England 

To survive, UK universities must think far beyond educational products and their own narrow institutional interests, says Mike Boxall