With image

The new MMU Novella Award will champion a form that continues to defy definition but which, says Robert Graham, prose fiction writers love

The stealthy rise of private pre-degree courses

A film designed to help students from overseas to better understand how to apply to study at the UK’s universities has been unveiled today at the House of Commons

The government will outline options to increase postgraduate student numbers later this year, according to today’s Budget statement.

A long-serving pro vice-chancellor has been named as the new head of London Metropolitan University.

By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed

Open letter includes cleaning cloths with guide on removing any further ‘unwanted chalk marks’

Student’s father also receives apology after number of failings identified

The story of a remarkable research centre devoted to understanding “the roots of extremism” has been reconstructed in a new radio documentary

Northumbria University is to become the latest UK institution to open a campus in London as it tries to increase international student numbers.

Poll also highlights growing importance of online profile

The government will not increase the value of the higher education innovation fund, it announced today.

Lawyer criticises university for drawn-out process that has led to ‘mere reprimand’

Minister of state for universities and science David Willetts discusses UK higher education at Brunel University in London

Teaching grants for universities in England are to fall by more than the £45 million announced last month, the country’s funding council has said.

The Office of Fair Trading wants further scrutiny of English higher education to judge if some rules for students may breach consumer protection law

Ministers have commissioned a review on the possibility of expanding the Technology Strategy Board’s network of Catapult centres.

Union members have called for a prominent critic of higher education policy to be returned to work after he was suspended by the University of Warwick.

More freedom to select students has not been an unalloyed good in China, says Hong Bing

Despite the snobbery of Oxford, a young literary scholar found the liberty to know and speak his mind

But some fear large gifts from US companies may dictate universities’ curricula

How has debt from higher fees changed students?

A report on global attacks on education also proposes ways to protect the sector

The resignation of a rector is an opportunity to tackle corruption in Kosovo’s academy, says Peter Geoghegan

At Tate Britain, Leo Mellor finds potency, fatalism and beauty in depictions of transience, both gradual and cataclysmic

CEO and director of research will represent ‘world-class’ Australian biomedical research centre. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Durham head Chris Higgins announces departure soon after senate debate on reducing v-c’s powers

But critics warn of funding eligibility problems in plan to collaborate on projects

Will a low-cost, user-friendly open access journal steal the traditional publishers’ lunch?

We speak to the professor of children’s literature at Goldsmiths, University of London

‘Savage reduction’ in overseas recruitment feared after new minister’s speech

David Willetts highlights possible delay in filling extra undergraduate places

This image of a zebrafish embryo was among the finalists of the Wellcome Trust’s annual image awards, which took place earlier this week

Research Councils UK analysis reveals gender difference in success rates

Analytical, not visionary, mindset may be best protection against a branch campus blunder

150 universities pledge to join Institute of International Education initiative

New space at the LSE for The Women’s Library is the first chapter in exploiting a vast resource

There are talents in everyone, and it is the teacher’s role to develop them, says Will Buckingham

Early career researchers to be represented on university committees

Negative assumptions about undergraduates distract from the debate over the responsibilities of educators, says Sarah Moore

A specialist multi-arts university aims to help its students to become entrepreneurial

The perils of life on a contract with no guarantee of work

UK spending on research and development as a proportion of gross domestic product fell in 2012, according to new figures.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Research funders worried about high open access fees charged by “hybrid” journals could refuse to pay fees above a set threshold, a report suggests.

But university rejects claim suspension relates to activism

People of Indian and Chinese descent in England and Wales are almost twice as likely to have a degree as white British people, a new study says.

The UK is to commit £290 million to three international microscope and telescope projects.

Yale University and Harvard University boast the top two graduate schools in the US for studying law, according to a set of rankings published today by US News and World Report

The University of Sussex has held further disciplinary hearings in the case of students who took part in protests on campus in 2013.

A debate on whether “an arts degree is a waste of time and money” saw the motion decisively defeated.

Tough-minded women are likely to do better in their university studies than men with similar characteristics of “resilience”, a study says.

‘Gender-hostile’ work environments still high on list of problems

Labour have accused the coalition of “complete confusion” after Vince Cable said the write-off estimate on student loans will be revised downwards.

The government’s new immigration minister has threatened to make it tougher for education institutions to keep their student visa licences.

UUK lobbies Parliament over immigration bill concerns

UCL’s Michael Arthur plans to inject research element into all undergraduate courses

Claire Chambers relishes the exciting flavour of Pakistan at the Karachi Literature Festival