Changes to the social media platform make further use “untenable”

UNESCO has called for the creation of university chairs for the study of the history of enslavement and the transatlantic slave trade.

European universities are behind more than 10% of all patent applications filed at the EPO from within Europe. However, wide variations in patterns of ownership and commercialisation are much in evidence.

Civil rights activists report that any criticism of the war in Ukraine is being stifled. Militarisation and ideological indoctrination are also increasing.

European Students’ Union wants direct participation embedded in governance structures of EU education initiatives

The US Supreme Court has struck down colleges’ and universities’ right to use race as a factor in deciding which students they admit.

Members of the University and College Union (UCU) are continuing a marking and assessment boycott over pay and working conditions. The BBC spoke to students and staff at the University of Cambridge about how the situation is being handled there.

A small but growing number of scientific faculty positions are focusing on the science of teaching.

Research bureaucracy and administrative burden has become so overpowering that many researchers are reporting that they don't have time to do any research anymore. Phill Jones argues that technology in the form of PIDs will go a long way to fixing this.

The EU has been pushing for convergence in the university sector for several decades, but when it comes to collaborating transnationally, universities struggle to deal with the patchwork of national regulations governing higher education. The European University Association (EUA) has taken stock and listed the biggest barriers to transnational collaboration in a briefing paper last week.

The cost-of-living crisis is causing widespread financial distress among those in master's and PhD programmes worldwide.

University associations, legislators, students and other stakeholders release a declaration on ways to recruit and retain early-career researchers in academia.