Ukraine crisis

Applications climbed by almost 2,000 per cent in 2022, the year of the Russian invasion, but most students chose low-cost courses with minimal entrance requirements

Russian studies is one of many disciplines that can and should loudly tell the story of how authoritarianism strips people of citizenship, says Ani Kokobobo

Two years on from Russia’s invasion, displaced institutions are still teaching in temporary premises and online, while many researchers work abroad. But with a host of urgent quality problems to overcome, is it time for Ukraine’s academic diaspora to come home? Emily Dixon reports

Computer science student says he can neither legally remain in Ukraine or leave the country after his visa was revoked

SET University president Iryna Volnytska discusses the challenges of building a new institution in wartime

Making good the human capital losses resulting from Russia’s invasion will be vastly easier if the existing workforce can be reskilled, says Alexander Kostyuk

Research time has fallen among Ukrainian scientists while 17 per cent have left the field altogether, study finds

Timothy Snyder and Serhii Plokhii among researchers joining project founded by philanthropist Victor Pinchuk

Central Asia could offer an academic landing ground for stranded learners who fled war 18 months ago, scholar says

Minister responsible for higher education tells European universities to stop recruiting its best minds

Universities step in to offer placements for those fleeing Russian invasion

Organisers look to expand programme beyond existing 110 UK-Ukraine partnerships into Europe and North America

Pyotr Kucherenko was taken ill on a return flight from Cuba, with a journalist later claiming he had privately called the invasion ‘fascist’

Academics who act as court experts in return for up to £20,000 are under a ‘corrupting influence’ claims one Russia analyst, while another expert says fees help pay his mortgage

Fewer than one in three educators feels they are getting the support they need from their employer, according to survey

Students who would have studied in Ukraine are turning to Poland since the invasion, university leaders say

Planned departure from Western higher education will ‘limit Russian students’ exposure to outside world and democracy’, scholars warn

Dual history programme for Ukrainian students will be developed and offered with Ukrainian Catholic University, one of six schemes to share charity funding

NaUKMA head defends dropping ‘language of aggressor’, despite concerns over freedom of expression

Student organisations say universities are failing to stop ‘growing harassment’ directed at Ukrainian communities

Involvement of university staff in prosecution of Olesya Krivtsova a major cause for concern, observers say

Tymofiy Mylovanov has found fame, funding and support for students via his day-in-the-life tweets

China gains influence over neighbour as impact of Western boycotts already visible in paper co-authorship

While students are exempt from Russia’s mobilisation, African students’ financial precarity leaves them open to pressure, says Ararat Osipian

Institutions invited to host master’s programmes to address skills shortages in areas such as bridge-building

Leading human rights activist says ‘absurd’ draft law could be ‘extremely harmful to education and research’ and is reminiscent of Soviet censorship

Support of Council for At-Risk Academics has brought some researchers to safety in the UK, but even new-found security can be bittersweet

Failure to expel crackpot social scientists from Russia’s academy has allowed dangerous dogma to dominate public discourse, says Andreas Umland

Initiative aims to help host families learn more about the culture of Ukraine before Russian invasion

Some presidents advocate cutting ties with universities in rival states, while others urge maintaining academic links even when diplomatic ones are straitened

Rocket attack hits Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, damaging ‘symbolic’ institution that has ‘shaped national statehood and culture’

Rectors set up emergency measures to allow Russian students to participate in courses even if they cannot leave their country

Academics say mobilisation gives universities a powerful tool, with learners who get expelled facing being sent to the Ukrainian front

Scholars need to address how the legacy of Russian writers and artists is taught to students and the public, says Nataliya Shpylova-Saeed

Academic presses struggling to keep up with the demand for once-obscure books about war-torn nation

Scholars say Russia’s war is to blame for decline in first-year students, with some noting ‘unprecedented’ increases in Polish and Ukrainian languages

Some universities getting ready to cut staff numbers after footing bills for housing and feeding Ukrainian families from institutional budgets

Without more reliable data on graduate employability or courses more aligned to employers’ needs, Ukrainian students will continue to look elsewhere, says Alexander Kostyuk

Academics debate whether spike in interest is down to draft dodging or career reckonings prompted by upheaval

Union questions the benefits of cutting short the studies of hundreds of Russian students

Institutions team up to offer scholarships as well as practical resettlement help targeting those affected by the conflict in Ukraine

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

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

Position will be used to ‘keep universities on a shorter leash’ and ‘pre-empt any potential dissent’, academics say

Barring collaboration with 236 Russian universities raises more questions than it answers, says Ararat Osipian

Joint appointments, infrastructure sharing and publication fee waivers will help to rebuild Ukraine’s science system, say Western scientific bodies

Preserving human capital for the post-Putin era is in everyone’s interests, say Dmitry Dubrovsky and Gleb Yarovoy 

Twitter has allowed war scholars and the public to hear from a diverse range of experts and created star academics but some are wary about where the tidal wave of commentary may lead

War’s destruction is a chance for Ukraine to create a better higher education system, but security and funding will test rebuilders

Dutch universities among those fearing multibillion-euro redistribution

Kremlin’s push on technological sovereignty met with scepticism as West shuns partnerships over Ukraine war

Universities should have awkward conversations early and ‘be ready to write off costs’ when tie-ups are soured by conflict

Move also means students fleeing conflict will have access to student support such as loans 

Ukrainian MP, scholar and ex-deputy education minister tells universities not to offer scholarships to Russian students in summit speech

Squeamish western Europe should take a more integrated approach to understanding war, says Ukrainian academic

A congressman’s call for all Russian students to be kicked out of the US was unfair and wrong-headed, says Anna Wise

Doxa editor Armen Aramyan discusses year-long house arrest, narrowing academic freedom and the future of Russia’s independent media

Holyrood creates £1 million fund for international students facing hardship

War has helped to fan inflation and wither universities’ resources. With scant prospect of let-up, all eyes are watching the horizon for hopeful signs

Staff scour social media to root out dissidents, with escalation of penalties meant to silence students