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Pair aim to offer English language support in war-torn areas

Inflation means ‘something has to give’, leader tells Times Higher Education podcast

Privatisation of debt dubbed a ‘silly idea’ by critics

Reading v-c finds government attitudes ‘puzzling and troubling’

Despite government optimism over UK’s future role, university provision remains limited, forum hears

There is an essential difference between saloon-bar provocation and paradigm-shifting scholarship, argues Terence Kealey

2013-14 figures assuage fears of course closures

New rector Jörg Monar discusses the unique institution’s mission and challenges

Sport’s on-campus growth reflects rising number of overseas students in country

Richard Larschan explains how events at his university arising from the bombings led to his long-resisted retirement

Does bitchiness serve any useful scholarly purpose?

Birmingham receives £15 million from former student

The University of Oxford has named a new building after the late Baroness Thatcher

UK researchers should be permitted to publish in top international journals even if those journals are not compliant with open-access mandates.

The government has been accused of preventing a “timely and legitimate analysis” of data on next year’s teacher training places.

Edinburgh University Press has bought Dundee University Press for an undisclosed sum.

Research council reveals details of its scheme for PhD provision

The accuracy of predicted A-level grades may be much worse than feared, research suggests.

A course designed to prepare students for their time at university is among nine new offerings from massive open online course provider FutureLearn

Times Higher Education is to publish the world’s first global ranking of universities in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and other emerging economies

Engineering departments bidding for £200 million of new capital funds for teaching should only be eligible if they are signed up to Athena SWAN

Universities in the UK produce the second highest number of millionaires in the world after the US, according to a new league table from Spear’s magazine and WealthInsight

About 12,500 staff are paid less than the Living Wage at UK universities, new research suggests

Donations to universities in the UK are even more skewed towards the elite than in the US, according to a new report

People who attend university are less likely to commit crime, drink heavily or smoke, according to a new database of evidence on the social benefits of higher education

Soas, University of London has been awarded a £20 million gift, the largest in its history, by a US foundation

The number of teaching training places allocated to universities by Michael Gove’s department has fallen by 14.5 per cent

Noisy protests on pickets lines, cancelled classes and student occupations have been seen at universities across the country as trade unions mounted a one-day strike over pay.

The capital element of the science budget should be ring fenced to avoid the peril of “announcement-based politics”, according to Labour’s new shadow minister for the sector.

Twitter was awash with picket line updates from the higher education strike - here is a selection

From university applications to the imminent higher education strike, horror movie imagery is taking grip of the higher education sector

Strike rallies will take place across the UK today during a one-day walkout by university staff over pay, with some universities already cancelling classes

LSE research points to Whitehall ‘trying it on’

Multibillion-pound funding gap may leave staff footing the bill

Coursework to be assessed for academic credit by member institutions

‘Seriously flawed’ decision broke university regulations, QAA finds

Reassurance and concerns stated over new framework’s requirements

But extant strategic decisions will not be revisited, Paul Golby says

Scholar hopes his ‘surreal’ action will show that excluded colleagues were ‘discriminated’ against

Fellowship will be extended if scholar attracts sufficient money from the public

Academic denied permission to start new job until after REF deadline

The “crucial moment” in post-war higher education was not the Robbins report but the creation of a central university admissions system because it enshrined the idea of student choice, David Willetts has argued

Social class ‘still biggest predictor of university attendance post-Robbins report’, conferences hear

Intellectual ‘flash mob’ meets in Westminster Cathedral crypt to debate the nature of Hell

Sector yet to take full advantage of VAT exemption for ‘cost-sharing groups’

Students will continue to travel for degree courses despite obstacles

Jim Northover considers whether the next global “mega-brand” could be a UK university

The UUK president discusses fees and funding reforms

We speak to the professor of political philosophy at the University of Bayreuth. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Davina Quinlivan considers the monster as a figure of loss and sadness as the BFI begins a season of ghoulish thrills

Senate minutes reveal shocking statistics for 2011-12

Brownfield reclamation unites academics, artists and community

THE survey shows non-EU students outside India largely undeterred by coalition measures

Major report on selective education used ‘inappropriate’ references

Cosmo Graham considers the possible outcomes

Canada branch of London School of Business and Finance labelled an ‘unlicensed private career college’ and told to halt teaching