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Research councils spend just £11 per person on R&D in Northern Ireland, almost seven times less than the spend per person in London, new figures suggest

New research grant data show Britain continuing to lead the league

Goals set for most academic posts across the institutions’ three faculties

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

US academic urges sector to make doctoral students’ experience ‘more human’

Green encyclical ups pressure on Catholic universities to show moral leadership on climate change. Will more make an ethical shift?

Head says changes that could lead to 60 redundancies will allow medical school to focus on strengths without harming Welsh healthcare

Cambridge historian warns universities against ‘crying wolf’ and insists that enrolments have mushroomed in the UK and US over the past 50 years

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

Chancellor George Osborne also announces scrapping of student maintenance grants and plans to make graduates pay more for loans through repayment threshold freeze

Author Jeanette Winterson among 96 signatories of letter to board of governors

Republican presidential hopeful wants radical reform of university system

Two unions reject 1 per cent offer, but Unison and GMB get behind it

Supreme Court to consider whether educators are obliged to pay union fees

HEA-commissioned report says those with vocational background may need more support, but also warns against seeing such qualifications as inferior

Robert Brownstone will take up the role of chair of neurosurgery at University College London

Next director of Soas says UK higher education can learn much from across the Atlantic

Many part-time students forced to miss part of their course, HEA survey finds

Government reductions could leave universities to fund most help for disabled students

Interim University of Sunderland leader succeeds Peter Fidler in top job 

Institutions pressure Elsevier to permit all Dutch papers to be freely available online by 2024

Prince Andrew will succeed Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart

Labour leadership candidate calls for 'revolution in science' and increased research and development spend

ABI College investigation finds only two of 45-strong cohort have achieved intended qualifications

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz draws on his own background as the child of Polish immigrants to counter ‘negative’ rhetoric on immigration

Senior lawyer criticises Counter Terrorism and Security Act

Complexity of government initiatives to help commercialise university research under scrutiny 

London Metropolitan University records biggest improvement in Hesa data

Teaching Shakespeare in Palestine was intense, disturbing and unforgettable, a University of Bristol lecturer says

A doctorate is the qualification most likely to lead to work overseas, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency have revealed

Report suggests that male social groups are ‘less fluid’ than women’s, who made up 63.5 per cent of American students overseas

Post-2007 conditions are worse, workloads are higher and it’s ‘all about the money’ for management, report three-quarters of survey respondents

Oxford Brookes’ submission on Duckworth-Lewis details formula’s influence

Higher education news from around the globe

Universities face having to navigate two quality frameworks as Jo Johnson makes teaching excellence framework a priority amid Hefce reforms

Oxford and Cambridge will lose institution-specific funding from Hefce as cash is diverted to small specialist providers

The silver lining in the fire that ravaged an Art Nouveau gem is the chance to explore Charles Rennie Mackintosh’s methods

UCL graduate Viral Thakerar to continue his fight to expunge a fail mark from his academic record

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

The equality charter’s influence, take-up and ambitions are growing, writes Holly Else, but so are expectations

Tribunal judge notes Raj Kumaran’s ‘unblemished disciplinary record’

Additional internationalisation measurement would increase participation in studying overseas, says Erasmus+ director

In just under a year, RefME, a UK-built online tool that takes the sweat out of citations, has attracted almost a million users

‘Build stronger mass higher education institutions,’ professor tells Society for Research into Higher Education meeting

Kiwi historians claim the concept is incoherent and moralistic

Universities encouraged to use social media and business-orientated software to enthuse students

UK higher education round-up and highlights from the Twittersphere

Peter Horrocks outlines vision in a restructure to kickstart the transformation of the institution

Information Commissioner orders university to share information with animal rights groups following FoI request

US and Canada ranked below four other regions for communicating effectively with prospective international students

Former University of Bedfordshire vice-chancellor to continue in widening participation post

But minister appears to drop reference to teaching excellence framework carrying 'financial' incentives

Universities minister raises concerns about increasing number of students receiving top grades

Board of main v-c body says inflation has eroded value of 2012 settlement

Navitas says enrolment down by 13 per cent in second semester of 2015

Teaching criteria updated in response to government and industry demands

Women made only 13 per cent of applications to flagship scheme for senior research leaders, council points out

Minister avoids direct answers to Labour questions

Cost rises to £1.1 billion with FE and alternative providers added