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Academics at UCL’s law school challenge sector’s embrace of technology, claiming students’ over-reliance on ‘shortcuts’ damages skills acquisition

The amalgamation of disparate disciplines into larger administrative units is prompting fears about academic identity, voice and workload â€“ not to mention student experience. Juliette Rowsell reports

Europe needs effective responses to attacks on science in the US and elsewhere, says Jan Palmowski

Institutions forget their importance to countries when they let themselves get embroiled in political debates, summit hears

Fundamental values that form higher education at stake, warns president of the European University Association

Scottish university looks to save further £5.5 million to bring down its deficit, a year after languages cuts

Survey highlights concerns that university leavers are less prepared for work than previous generations

Lords committee urges government to make it cheaper for foreign researchers to work in UK following science funding cuts in US

Leading research institutions endorse experimental non-profit journal as it loses its impact factor

Restrictions to incoming international students and graduate route thought to be more likely following losses by Labour in local elections

Amid talk of an asylum crackdown, any policy changes must avoid harming overseas graduates’ post-study work opportunities, says James Pitman

Dwindling sector finances and geopolitical challenges mean higher education will look very different in five years’ time, summit hears