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Shadow minister explains that his party would aim for graduate tax but plans to leave numbers uncapped

Could minister Jet Bussemaker’s reforms create a ‘second-class’ group of doctoral candidates?

Judith Ackroyd and Jill Robinson explain why they are dramatising material from confidential interviews with university leaders

ESRC intends revised training strategy to better support PhD students and to speed work on new issues. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Vice-chancellors discuss their role and offer advice to aspiring university leaders

Julianne Moore gives a complex, nuanced portrait of a professor confounded and isolated by Alzheimer’s, writes Lucy Bolton

Removal of academic board member from body supporting study of Canada in the UK spurs resignations

A physicist on the ‘shameless exploitation’ of low-pay sessional lecturing that leaves his family officially classed as ‘poor’

We speak to the human rights barrister, chancellor of the Asian University for Women and visiting professor in law at St Mary’s University, Twickenham

Labour’s proposal to cut tuition fees will be funded by removing a perk from the UK’s super-rich, writes the professor of geography

South University of Science and Technology of China wanted to buck the system. Did it succeed? asks Hong Bing

One of the foremost academic librarians of his generation has died

Are the best assessors your colleagues, or external observers?

Yong Zhao believes China doesn’t foster the free thinkers it needs. What is the state of the country’s higher education system?

The vice-chancellor of the University of Brighton is to retire next year, it has been announced

View from leading scholar is among many put forward ahead of major prize recognising arts, humanities and social sciences

Notts Trent head Neil Gorman was highest earner with pay and benefits of £620K in his final year

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

Controversial cuts to Disabled Students’ Allowance are to be subject to a legal challenge

Strict conditions on Glyndwr University’s licence to recruit international students are to be maintained, following a Home Office review

Scottish Labour leader Jim Murphy has ruled out the introduction of tuition fees north of the border if his party wins next year’s Holyrood election

But Liam Byrne insists graduate tax is still ‘long-term policy’ for party

Devolved nations may face pressure to meet funding shortfall

The government wants to cut the number of students with public funding recruited by “poorer quality” private colleges offering sub-degree courses

The Royal Society has not been able to find any reason why so few women were successful in securing awards from one of its fellowship schemes in 2014

A play based on an academic study of the stresses and satisfactions of care work in dementia wards has now set off on a six-venue tour

Professors are several percentage points more likely to be women than they were a decade ago, new figures show

What will hold back the use of technology in higher education over the next five years?

Labour has been urged to say whether or not it would reintroduce caps on undergraduate numbers after unveiling its pledge to lower fees to £6,000.

QAA report followed claims university had bent rules to allow students sponsored by Saudi government extra resits

As Ed Miliband announces Labour’s policy on university tuition fees, the shadow universities minister sets out his party’s plans for higher education

Ed Miliband has pledged that a Labour government would lower fees to £6,000 and raise maintenance grants by £400

More than a quarter of university students now use social media to contact their lecturers

Students taking BTEC vocational qualifications are more than twice as likely to score top marks as they were seven years earlier, says a new study.

University of Liverpool PhD student wants models to be manufactured by the company

CEO Maddalaine Ansell proposes asset sharing and collaborating with business on course design at mission group

Regulator wants elite universities to set ‘challenging targets’ on admissions as student number controls end in autumn

Work experience while at this Scottish institution is positively encouraged

Sir Ian Diamond’s efficiencies report endorses the shift from incremental pay rises to service-related rewards

Universities have a vital role to play in recognising complex sexualities, says Deborah D. Rogers

John Warren and colleagues warn of the serious decline in graduates with sound identification skills

Lahav Executive Education offers international entrepreneurs insights into Israeli success and tactics for tackling Silicon Valley

Paul Ashwin unpicks some cherished nostrums, from Hollywood-style star turns at the podium to the much-exaggerated death of the lecture

Senior sector figures urge new cohort to engage, draw on large datasets, collaborate with science and tackle the era’s major questions. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Watch the only pre-election debate on higher education, featuring key representatives from the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat parties

Discussions and activities on University Mental Health Day

How do universities cope in the aftermath of fires, earthquakes and killing sprees?

Since her debut novel sparked a bidding war, the lecturer in creative writing has been writing full-time. But, she tells Emma Rees, she does miss teaching

Having turned the University of Cumbria around, Upton is now heading to Wrexham

The AQA decision to end a promising trial of the subject does a disservice to students, the discipline and the UK, says Joy Hendry

Ending support for cross-border students does not mean tuition fee cash would be reinvested in institutions, report warns

One of the world’s leading experts on organisational psychology, known for representing how organisations work with “detail, breadth and rigour”, has died

Hakim Adi urges early career researchers at first meeting of Black Doctoral Network UK to be resilient when facing difficulties

We speak to a principal lecturer at Nottingham Trent University who is also the director of the GameCity festival and co-director of the National Videogame Arcade

Jon Nixon asks what Arendt’s work can tell us about the value of universities as places of thinking together

Two government departments and watchdog investigate St Patrick’s College