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Baron Stern of Brentford has previously raised concerns that the research excellence framework forces academics to focus too much on publishing articles

As fans await the release of The Force Awakens, could Star Wars help teach psychoanalytic concepts in university?

But asked how much they thought they should pay, responses averaged less than £4,000

Author of report into reshaping of research council system defends proposal to create a new ministerial committee

Sam Clovis has come under scrutiny for his role in the Republican presidential candidate’s campaign

A masterly study of the building has been published more than 40 years after its author’s death

Prosecutors accuse academics of colluding with publishers to boost their standing and sell more books

Local officials wanted too much control over academic programmes at Nazareth branch campus, says Texas A&M

Absence of legislation would leave plans to create new student and market-focused regulator unable to proceed

Bahram Bekhradnia says teaching excellence framework could be welcome ‘counterweight’ to research imperative

Vice-chancellor of New York University Shanghai on academic freedom and ‘cosmopolitan spirit’

Are scientists just uninterested in religion or actively at odds with it?

OECD head of education insists emulating Pisa school tests will improve teaching and lower fees

Students who had an opportunity to learn a foreign language more likely to want to study abroad, research reveals

First official statement on higher education and science from organisation campaigning for Brexit

Pressure on student activists has raised questions about the Eastern European state’s acceptance into the Bologna Process

Simon Marginson tells SRHE conference that multiplicity of factors affect graduate outcomes

Investment pays off for the economy, finds groundbreaking US study

A long-running stand-off has been resolved as a three-year deal on subscriptions is agreed

Protest sparked by suspension of highly respected architecture professor who refused to support relocation of the school

Architecture lecturer Stephen Games feels ‘vindicated’ after agreement

British Council research forecasts that China will remain the top provider of international students

Cambridge Assessment study finds independent sector pupils up to four times more likely to achieve at least one top grade

From Isis and the Middle East to Europe’s response to refugees, borders are at the heart of many crises around the world

SRHE conference told that universities are at centre of ‘a race between competing social groups with unequal resources’

Dispute over British Journal of Educational Technology prompts resignations among editorial team

Responses of more than 24,000 undergraduates indicate limited development in areas such as creativity and citizenship over course of degree

Sheffield Engineering Leadership Academy aims to equip graduates with the ‘soft skills’ required for industry or academia

Black, Chinese and Asian undergraduates report highest level of skill development

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit hears that countries such as India should stop trying to play the West's game

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Robert Gordon University says Trump has made ‘statements that are wholly incompatible with the ethos and values of the university’

A higher proportion of overseas students in the UK would recommend studying in the country, compared with those in other nations, study finds

V-c tells staff that decision to close campus, which has just 140 students, ‘not taken lightly’

Half of money cut to be reallocated to tuition fee grants, which Plaid Cymru says will end up in English universities

UUK research says the economy requires an even greater number of graduates

But despite increased income, academics increasingly employed on teaching-only contracts, says King’s College London study

Universities minister also tells BIS committee that TEF will look at graduate employment rather than salaries

Scholars call for open dialogue with Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement supporters

Former Nuffield Foundation director Sharon Witherspoon says the disciplines face many challenges

Problems with Jisc-operated network stretch into second day

Life sciences PhD candidates believe they are owed money for teaching undergraduates as a condition of funding

Organisation hopes use of ORCID system will end confusion over authorship and researcher identity

Better training will help communities to prevent and deal with consequences of procedure, says vice-chancellor

Former Edinburgh vice-principal faced criticism during her tenure but has enjoyed recent success

Goldsmiths conference looks at issue of harassment on campus – and why it is often ignored or dismissed

Politics lecturer Michael Buehler faces sustained attacks after raising questions about covert lobbying ahead of US visit by country’s president

Settlers will study course on ‘life stories’ led by University of East London academic

Allowing private sector to flourish is best route to vastly increase access to ‘good, not great’ higher education, BRICS and Emerging Economies Universities Summit hears

There is ‘often ill-informed reverence for the US system’, claims the director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education 

Konstantin Krotov also speaks of ‘full support’ for Turkish academic in light of Russian-Turkish diplomatic tension

Fair access tsar warns ‘top-down meddling’ would be a ‘costly, bureaucratic exercise’

Max Lu to join from University of Queensland

Open University report predicts that adaptive teaching tools will grow in popularity, but highlights need to tread carefully with the data they collect on students

Cornish university offers an exceptionally realistic training environment for those wanting to work in the games industry

Former World Bank education official warns of potential ‘adverse consequences’ of schemes

A qualified welcome for George Osborne’s real-terms protection of research, but uncertainty over how new overseas aid spending will operate

Senior figures in UK science fear that culture leading to research misconduct has not been changed

Government’s moves to lower student loan write-off ease path to postgraduate and part-time lending