Overwhelmed Dutch plead for limits on international recruitment Campuses&苍产蝉辫;‘产耻谤蝉迟颈苍驳 at the seams’, says Amsterdam president, urging government help By Ben Upton 25 November
THE Campus Live UK&IE: universities ‘squeamish’ about boosting school standards New government focus on universities raising pre-18 attainment could be a ‘challenge’, but also indicates positive shift By Simon Baker 24 November
THE Campus Live UK&IE: ‘use carrot, not stick’ to get academics to go green Universities support gentle touch on nudging researchers to make climate-friendly decisions By Pola Lem 24 November
THE Live: take out insurance against Chinese recruitment collapse, says Johnson Russell Group must ‘stop making excuses’ on difficulties of diversifying international student flows, says ex-universities minister By Pola Lem 24 November
THE Live: English HE policy ‘not the norm’, says Welsh minister Welsh student support and tertiary systems have ‘far more in common with international approaches’ than English ones, says Jeremy Miles By John Morgan 24 November
THE Live: lifelong loans will bring historic culture shift, says Donelan Minister also tells THE event that access changes are ‘not focusing on high-paid jobs’ but rather on ‘graduate jobs’ By John Morgan 24 November
Least selective universities ‘performing best on social mobility’ Although Russell Group university tops new IFS/Sutton Trust ranking based on ‘mobility rate’, other selective institutions languish towards bottom of list By Simon Baker 24 November
Resigning president says Germany needs academic career master plan Rectors’ conference concerned that Berlin postdoc law could set ‘blueprint’ for unfunded attempts to tackle precarity By Ben Upton 24 November
THE Live: English access ‘reboot’ brings ‘high-paid jobs’ graduate targets Universities minister to unveil access and participation changes at THE event as new director of fair access named By John Morgan 24 November
‘Nepotistic’ journals fast-track hyperprolific authors Close relationships between journal boards and most-published authors may explain speedy publishing times, says study By Jack Grove 23 November
Ministers ‘might as well bite bullet’ on retrospective loan hike Key details on scope of English student loan changes yet to be finalised as consultation looms By John Morgan 23 November
Concern over Oxbridge dominance at UK’s oldest law journal Scholar criticises lack of anonymised peer review at Law Quarterly Review By Jack Grove 23 November
