UK campus will teach China to open education to world, says dean Wen Hai, head of Peking University HSBC Business School’s Oxford outpost, says venture will help foster collaboration between Britain and China By Rachael Pells 22 June
Cambridge’s Trinity faces union boycott after confirming USS exit Academics may be asked not to apply for jobs, give lectures or conduct external examining at Trinity By Nick Mayo 21 June
Educational charities must behave charitably It is not enough for UK universities with charitable status merely to conduct teaching and research, say Nicola Dandridge and Helen Stephenson By Nicola Dandridge 21 June
Frontload training in first postdoctoral post, says research head Liverpool pro vice-chancellor says new positions would be step between PhDs and traditional postdoctoral posts By Nick Mayo 21 June
Reading halves Malaysia workforce after multimillion-pound losses University cuts courses but will become first foreign institution to offer law degree in country By Ellie Bothwell 21 June
Students compensated over ‘dangerous’ teaching on safety master’s South Wales lecturer shared incorrect advice on issues such as electrical safety, fire doors, and indoor barbecues By Anna McKie 20 June
Minister hopes for ‘significant uplift’ in QR funding next year Chris Skidmore tells peers he hopes for announcement soon but acknowledges that UK is ‘in a very strange place politically’ By Rachael Pells 19 June
Call for UK to underwrite Horizon Europe bids as deadline nears Director of Universities UK International says some institutions have modelled falls in EU student enrolment of up to 80 per cent By John Morgan 19 June
Teaching excellence framework (TEF) 2019: results announced Staffordshire and University for the Creative Arts secure gold, but Sheffield stays on silver By Chris Havergal 19 June
Oxford receives ?150 million gift to?study humanities and AI Donation from philanthropist Stephen Schwarzman is institution’s ‘largest since the Renaissance’ By Chris Havergal 19 June
Question mark over future of Danish foreign student policy Experts divided over whether centre-left but anti-immigration Social Democratic Party will continue, scrap or enhance current policy restricting foreign student numbers By Ellie Bothwell 19 June
BPP sale set to test appetite for for-profit investment Preparations for sale by Apollo Education Group are under way, THE understands, two years after owner changed hands By John Morgan 19 June