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Sector observers predict that universities will take the chance to rein in executive remuneration

Tributes paid to the Nobel prizewinner dubbed the ‘father of fibre optics’

Law graduate urges research students to ‘take institutions to task’ on inadequate supervision

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

Gareth Evans adds that ‘inherent lack of trust’ prompted Australian National University to decline Western civilisation course

The award-winning chemist attempts to explain his reasons for wanting to create a chemical brain, but suggests we won’t be moving to Mars any time soon

Enrolment of Peter Cvjetanovic on political theory master’s sparks debate about whether universities can consider applicant’s political views in admissions processes

University says its mission and nature of its students ‘make it difficult to climb much above 90’ in UK rankings

Frances Arnold, George Smith and Gregory Winter share prize for development of proteins used in new medical treatments

More Democrat candidates than ever running on some kind of free college plan, but there are splits within party

A panel of leading industry, government and university representatives discuss the challenges they face when fostering collaborative research systems

‘Current policy climate’ may be a ‘contributing factor’, says Council of Graduate Schools

German academics have uncovered thousands of suspected abusers in a landmark project. But should they have had a freer hand?

Russell Group institutions dominate tie-ups announced since vote to leave bloc

A global panel of research universities and industry leaders discuss how to foster a sustainable culture of innovation 

Alongside Donna Strickland, Arthur Ashkin breaks record for becoming oldest laureate at 96

Russell Group chair says politicians have ‘moral obligation’ to stop UK crashing out of EU without an agreement

Vice-chancellor at the Australian National University Brian Schmidt delivers a powerful address to open the 2018 World Academic Summit 

Universities minister continues campaign on campus free speech at Tory conference

Office for Students fails to meet schedule for latest tranche of register of providers amid concerns about approach

Male skew in overseas students conceals female slant among domestic recruits

Four years of data from THE’s world rankings show that the UK appears to have stalled on internationalisation compared with some rivals

Lord Lilley describes post-study work visas as route to ‘mass migration’, while v-c stresses universities’ ability to ‘promote global Britain’

University hopes funding will help widening participation goals

US and Japanese immunologists’ protein studies recognised as major advancement in treatment of incurable cancers

Fresh facilities at new Waterside campus will transform fortunes of town, says vice-chancellor

Germany’s multibillion-euro excellence initiative has encouraged competition, but it has also helped create a close-knit ‘Berlin University Alliance’

Sydney sets ground rules for controversial Western civilisation programme before talking ‘tin tacks’

51�Թ� data from OECD raises questions about growth of per-student spending in some countries, but by no means all nations

Brisbane institution the latest to quit its representative subgrouping

Researchers clash with former minister on potential application of ‘distance travelled’ measures

Higher education institutions too slow to adapt what and how they teach, rival says

Top US universities with low numbers of ethnic minority students are most likely to use questionable practices that overplay diversity, study claims

Study finds further evidence to suggest peer review process riddled with gender and racial bias

End of era of deference as well as funding behind development of country’s higher education system, says Tony Chan

Singaporean scholar says that reverse brain drain has allowed global power to thrive 

Lengthy discussions slow pace of bringing products to market and are often irrelevant by the time they are concluded, summit hears

Forty-six sector heads sign letter calling on government to act against contract cheating

51�Թ�’s flagship event will take place in continental Europe for first time

Making innovation zones work goes beyond financial support and facilities, summit hears

Top Israeli scholar says he was told to leave behind his scientific qualities when he became a member of parliament

Study finds that a quarter of students at European universities think internationalisation is of little importance

Tributes paid to Stanford’s world-leading authority on population genetics

Cards including details of support services have been designed to fit in wallets and purses

New book says random allocation of places is ‘only way of levelling the education playing field’

Virginia King explains how university departments can improve staff inductions to help them hang on to new arrivals

The University of South Florida president talks about how her enterprising Ohio upbringing bred confidence and why college sports matter

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

Scholars say permanent teaching posts are left vacant as universities rely on ‘ad hoc’ lecturers

China is now home to the best university in Asia, while France’s Sorbonne University is the highest-ranked newcomer in the table

The rankings editorial team discusses the trends and top performers in THE's biggest international league table to date 

Multidisciplinary mindset requires more diverse reward structures, says Sydney v-c

Long-term benefits of research success – and of building industry relations – may be less direct but far more valuable than royalty payments, summit hears

Leaders have increasingly been acknowledging that the cultural pressure put on the country’s children to spend their hours studying has left them too one-dimensional

President of Humboldt University of Berlin says new public laboratory will help drive the ‘production, preservation and communication of knowledge’

Rosie Duffield says Labour should ‘keep that conversation open’, while Wes Streeting criticises ‘middle-class subsidy’

Humboldtian tradition at risk of unravelling in shift to use of teaching-only staff, Nobel prizewinning v-c says

Leaders of top universities say students must be pushed to ‘breaking point’ and allowed to fail

Data from the Office for Students appear to show vocational courses have bigger shares of such students

Complaints process can drag on for several years and is nearly impossible to challenge, says 1752 Group report