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‘Conference at the Gates’ confronts the buyers and sellers of arms

Discipline may fund women fairly because of a better awareness of the ‘ingrained, institutionalized male culture of universities’

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor identifies the top academic ‘habits’ postdocs need to reach the next level

Financial boost follows better than average performance in the 2014 REF

Bruce Harreld will become president of the institution in November

First female president of Universities UK jokes that ‘it’s only been 100 years’ before a woman filled the post

Wyn Ellis appears to have been on immigration blacklist after exposing Thai official’s plagiarism

Scholars in countries with a permissive approach are three times more likely to use the technique

Kiron University looking to raise money to offer free education to refugees

Ministers respond to concern about violence against women on campus

Region’s universities must build a type of institution distinctive from those in the West, scholar argues

Deluge of submitted papers leads journals to fall back on alma mater prestige, research suggests

Watchdog says only one in five of a cohort of students at London-based Grafton College of Management Sciences on course to complete qualification on time

Fundraising consultant says management restructure would increase industry funding to HE

University of the Witwatersrand vice-chancellor says research excellence can still be pursued while professoriate is reshaped

Scholar says ‘extraordinarily challenging’ task of running a university’s overseas outpost needs to be rethought

Calohee learning outcomes project criticised by OECD, whose own scheme has failed to get going

BIS data confirm continuing decline in part-time study and widening of gender gap

Graduates of Russell Group institutions were the least likely to be unemployed three and a half years after leaving university, with just 1.7 per cent falling into this category, figures show

Part of the founding vice-chancellor’s vision lives on at the University of Essex

Hepi report says higher education systems are too different to allow for an ‘off-the-shelf’ solution

UKVI takes action against one of England’s largest private colleges

Systematic searching and a clear focus are the keys to a successful literature review

Analysis of Hesa data reveals the extent to which academics are outnumbered by support staff

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

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

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Global analysis shows hospital studies increasingly important but industry publications dip

Bumper year for fund managers at the Universities Superannuation Scheme

Computing, maths and business management in line for ‘rationalisation’ as spending cuts hit institution

Luister details alleged discrimination against black students at leading institution

Scottish university signs up with rival plagiarism detection service after complaining about ‘operational difficulties’

US firms report increasing use of psychological assessments

Institutions also ordered to establish press offices and publish “authentic” university news

Study warns that targeting where students live, not their individual circumstances, can inadvertently benefit privileged children

Event at the University of Hertfordshire breaks new ground in examining the undead

Government seeks to build on increasing numbers coming from abroad to study in the country

Academy Award-winning actor visits archives and old laboratories where the famous British scientist worked

Jon Marcus travels to the Big Easy to see the varying fortunes of the city’s universities

Currency devaluation and economic slowdown could stymie lucrative market

Australian delegation that includes former cricketer Adam Gilchrist aims to boost educational links with subcontinent

Performance-related pay causes the best academics to cluster together, evidence from Germany suggests

But longitudinal survey also finds more university leavers are now working part-time or engaged in further study

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

University of Hull demonstrates pedagogical potential of world-building game

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

The University of Lincoln rejects criticism for listing hourly paid staff on its website, saying they are ‘not second-class members of faculty’

Minority scholars less likely to be submitted to research excellence framework

University of South Wales offers academic credit for skills and experience gained in the military

Alternative treatments in healthcare plan is latest in a series of homeopathy-related controversies

Postponement of responsive mode grants partly aimed at preserving success rates while research council makes ‘additional large investments’

Initiative to replicate findings of 100 prominent studies raises further questions about health of discipline

Rising liabilities may again focus attention on whether Universities Superannuation Scheme assumptions are ‘unreasonably pessimistic’

Rama Thirunamachandran says role and financing of sector’s teaching champion must be rethought

Alice Dreger resigns her post after institution censored a risqué story in a medical journal

But master of Birkbeck has accepted that there were ‘procedural matters’ in his lab that ‘required attention’

Researchers find an unexpected link between brevity and popularity

Agency to design and conduct nationwide inspection regime

The merger of seven subpanels into a single one for modern languages and linguistics has skewed results, claim scholars

Prospective students more likely to base decision on prospectuses, institutions’ websites and campus visits, survey suggests