What does Macron’s lost majority mean for French universities? President must learn to work with a fragmented parliament, but experts say likely allies will back his push to liberalise higher education By Ben Upton 24 June
Tackling campus sexual misconduct ‘needs actions, not just words’ Change is finally beginning to happen across higher education but campaigners say structural change is needed, not sticking plasters By Tom Williams 23 June
Most ‘transformative’ journals miss Plan S open access targets Big publishers finding switch away from paywalls challenging, says European-led coalition By Jack Grove 23 June
Commission head urged to smooth UK and Swiss Horizon association Science leaders beg Ursula von der Leyen to break political impasse By Chris Havergal 23 June
Extend PhD funding to reflect ‘modern doctorate’, leaders urge European doctoral body says funders must recognise that current financial support is often insufficient for PhD researchers By Jack Grove 23 June
More students back firing lecturers who teach offensive material Survey finds UK undergraduates appear a lot less supportive of free speech than they were six years ago By Tom Williams 23 June
UK academics undervalued by billions of pounds, says report Analysis of ‘true economic value’ of sector says staff are essentially subsidising a broken system By Simon Baker 23 June
Rectors for moral development ‘sign of Russia’s re-Sovietisation’ Position will be used to ‘keep universities on a shorter leash’ and ‘pre-empt any potential dissent’, academics say By Pola Lem 22 June
‘Glaring lack of diversity’ among public health journal editors Female scholars grossly under-represented on editorial boards of public health and environmental science publications, says Cambridge-led study By Jack Grove 21 June
Spain’s ‘crazy’ squeeze on precarity ‘impossible’ without funding Critics say plans to lower the limit on temporary staff from 40 per cent to 8 per cent are unworkable and could lock in under-qualified lecturers By Ben Upton 21 June
Marginson: push back on ‘securitisation’ to save global science Leading professor proposes charter to protect free exchange of knowledge By Simon Baker 21 June
How to end Oxbridge dominance? Try halting undergraduate teaching Shift prestigious institutions to ‘greater potential’ of education for excluded adults, says FT columnist By John Morgan 21 June
