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FoI request reveals former vice-chancellor returned after suspension on full pay despite diminished powers

A professor with two decades of experience reviews his career highs and lows

We speak to the newly knighted vice-chancellor of the University of Warwick

Donna Yates is tackling the illicit trade in antiquities, and although it can be dangerous, the archaeologist says it’s a world away from Lara Croft

Skills of business students on internships in low-income nations do not develop as much as those in other regions

The National Union of Students has accused universities of being ‘prepared to ignore’ incidents of sexual assault and harassment on campus

Freedom of speech has become a “sexual fetish” in the West in light of the Charlie Hebdo terror atrocity, according to academic and writer Will Self

Student groups are holding a series of protests this month against pay inequality in universities

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

The British Library has announced an ambitious “vision for its future development” over the next eight years

Government plans to tackle “extremism” will have a “seriously inhibiting effect on bona fide academic debate in universities”, MPs and peers warn

Graduate recruitment is set to reach its highest level in more than a decade, according to new research

Sutton Trust scheme sends UK applicants to Harvard, Yale and others

A petition has been set up calling for Nigel Thrift, the University of Warwick vice-chancellor, to be stripped of his knighthood.

The University of Huddersfield vice-chancellor Bob Cryan has defended the Duke of York, its patron, in the face of “ridiculous” sex allegations

Government fixated with education departments being ‘Marxist hotbeds’, says Reading v-c

US president promises two years of free higher education for “everyone willing to work for it”

David Cameron and George Osborne have trumpeted universities’ involvement in plans to boost the economy of the North West

Hefce to fund participation after DfE agency pulled plug on money

The University of Ulster has appointed Paddy Nixon as its new vice-chancellor

Laurence Grove on the role of bandes dessinées and satirical cartoons in France’s commitment to liberty

A national group of collaborative outreach networks working with schools and colleges has launched, four years after a similar project was scrapped

Aston business school dean prizes feedback from alumni and employers as institutions begin to work like corporations

New professors in digital history and digital humanities are examples of institution performing its ‘national role’

Junior scholars urged to develop robust profiles on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook to boost their careers and ward off risk of ‘shadow self’

Academic inbreeding is not considered unusual or problematic in many countries, according to study

Students searching for the perfect university must value the diversity on offer and be aware of the complexity it brings, says Alan Ruby

Email reveals that a third of accommodation payments is spent on capital and borrowing expenditure

Universities claim releasing information would harm commercial interests or breach staff privacy

Jonathan Shepherd, Cardiff medical scholar and ‘What Works’ pioneer, urges researchers to keep it brief and abandon obfuscation

Things to say, and things to not say, in a campus biography

Study finds variations by seniority, subject and institutional mission in scholars’ published opinions on the research excellence framework

The counter-terrorism bill will co-opt academics into the ‘securocrat’ and chill debate on campus - it must be fought, says Martin Hall

Students’ union objects to change that will make thousands ineligible for extra weeks of support via ‘long courses loans’

Tim Hall describes staff and student experiences of interdisciplinary mergers, including an awkward departmental ‘speed date’

REF analysis suggests that new system for allocating funds has ‘no correspondence with excellence in research impact’

The literary theorist talks about his 50-year career, the importance of low-minded virtues and the double act of Christianity and communism

Research finds no correlation between publications’ impact factor and economics scholars’ perceived career payoffs. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Institutions ‘unbending’ on fee-free demand as talks with Elsevier resume

Members of the Independent Universities Group want to distinguish themselves from ‘dodgy’ for-profit colleges

Jenny Pickerill offers some advice on some common mistakes and how to stand out from the pack

Funding council installs overseer after permitting University of Northampton to borrow £300m for Waterside campus

A leading historian of mathematics and logic has died

Pulp thrillers by MPs reveal something disturbing about Britain’s political unconscious, say Nicola Allen and Aidan Byrne

We speak to the next president of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge, the only women’s university college in Europe for students aged 21 and over

Plan to force overseas students to leave the UK after graduation appears to have been blocked by George Osborne

Middlesex University has announced that Michael Driscoll is to retire as vice-chancellor, to be replaced by The Open University’s Tim Blackman

University teacher training students will be asked not to take part in this year’s National Student Survey after the government withdrew funding

Raising tuition fees to £9,000 has not helped drive improvements in teaching despite the government’s insistence it would improve standards

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

James Dyson has become the latest to criticise plans mooted by home secretary Theresa May’s to send overseas graduates home after their course

The vice-chancellor of Glyndwr University has suddenly left the troubled institution

Philip Cowley and Robert Ford describe a step change in their discipline’s engagement with the electorate

The comedy of Borat and Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen is to be the subject of an in-depth study by university scholars

PhD holders may not be securing a job as easily as some governments believe