Anglia Ruskin strips Hong Kong lawmaker of honorary degree Junius Ho, who has been accused of supporting violence against protesters, has honour removed by British university By Anna McKie 29 October
Big variation across Europe in cost of publishing with ‘big five’ Analysis of publishing deals across Europe highlights different costs faced by country-level consortia By Jack Grove 29 October
Debate as French government pushes ahead on grandes écoles access As government takes interventionist stance, education experts call for deeper measures on social and institutional inequality By John Morgan 29 October
Scholars want sabbaticals and placements to fight climate change More than a thousand people sign open letter published online by 51³Ô¹Ï By Anna McKie 29 October
Universities must act swiftly and independently on climate change An open letter from academics and campaigners to sector leaders By Contributors 29 October
Part-time students ‘left behind’ by full-time ‘grade inflation’ Part-time learners in the UK much less likely to get a first or 2:1 By Simon Baker 28 October
Fund individual academics, not PIs, ‘to stamp out sexual abuse’ Gender equality expert says higher education sector must ‘strengthen the economic independence of researchers’ By Ellie Bothwell 25 October
Funding warning in new UK research integrity concordat Tough sanctions on institutions that ignore research integrity rules in new concordat backed by Universities UK and research funders By Jack Grove 25 October
Oxford professor ‘failed to properly acknowledge’ Chinese colleagues Collaborators criticise lack of sanction against Anna Lora-Wainwright, but internal investigation finds she did not intend to deceive By Jack Grove 24 October
UK names 14 AI doctoral training centres in £370 million PhD plan Investment will create 2,700 new PhD places in biosciences and AI research By John Morgan 24 October
Graphene Nobelist: don’t ask universities to drive innovation Sir Konstantin Novoselov sparks debate over who should be responsible for commercialising research discoveries By Ellie Bothwell 24 October
Noam Chomsky in free speech row over UCL ‘antisemitism’ rules Linguist ‘at a loss for words’ over university guidelines on what can and cannot be said about Jews By Matthew Reisz 24 October