Europe

Extension of journal mandate to monographs designed to ‘make research more open and equitable’, but has historically been a source of controversy

Sylvie Retailleau says France wants to ‘welcome’ international students, despite fallout from row over stricter controls

Amena El Ashkar was hoping to study a PhD in international relations at the London School of Economics but her visa was rejected

Growing use of chatbots within higher education is likely to foster unoriginal and ‘solipsistic’ thought, says IE president

Winchester, Surrey and Queen Mary latest to shed academic positions as industrial disputes heat up elsewhere

London Book Fair discussion dominated by concern over large language models using published works without citations or remuneration to authors or publishing houses

Investigation follows publishing controversy that saw chapter detailing allegations withdrawn by Routledge

Emotional strain of facing near-empty auditoriums should prompt review of university lecturing, says psychologist

The redundancies and course closures proposed at many struggling UK universities follow a decades-long drift away from the idea of higher education institutions as charities whose non-commercial public benefit needs to be supported by profit-making activity, argues Martin Mills

Office for Students insists it has ‘no recommendations of directions of travel’ as it seeks views on distribution of £1.5 billion annual budget

UK universities must make flexible working ‘the default’, including in high-salary jobs, to tackle gender pay gaps, says thinktank

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