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The NSS does not give an accurate representation of student feeling, according to more than half of university staff responding to a straw poll.

The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council aims to accelerate both scientific breakthroughs and social and economic impact.

Maryam Mirzakhani has become the first woman to win the Fields Medal in the history of the world’s most prestigious mathematics prize.

A majority of adults in England support reduced tuition fees for students from lower income families, according to a survey for the Sutton Trust

The public have been asked to help shape the new science and innovation strategy due out in the autumn

Students are most satisfied with teaching, least happy with assessment and feedback

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

The medical journal The Lancet has defended its decision to publish an open letter condemning Israel’s military action in Gaza

Scientific publishers producing model copyright licences will make it harder for academic research to be a “first class citizen of the web”.

MPs warn it is “highly doubtful” the Scottish government’s position on tuition fees would be legally sustainable if the country became independent

Times Higher Education has launched a survey to see whether Scottish university staff believe leaving the UK would be good for their institutions

A University of Cambridge student has accused the NUS of encouraging Hamas to ensure “as many children as possible die” through its Israel boycott

The Wikimedia Foundation has spoken out against “the right to be forgotten” enshrined in European law, likening it to removing an index from a book.

The number of students at private colleges accessing public tuition fee loans more than trebled in just two years, a study says.

Women graduating from part-time degrees go on to earn £7,500 less on average than their male equivalents, according to new data on higher education leavers

Dame Ann Dowling warns that universities that put too high a price on their intellectual property may hamper a spin-off’s success

Paper turned down for plagiarising surfaces in another of publisher’s journals

Deal with for-profit firm INTO University Partnerships cancelled due to lack of ‘common ground’

Unions tell university that a resolution is not possible in dispute over new career structures

Apple director and Open University v-c tell Universia International Presidents’ Meeting 2014 in Brazil to think pedagogy, not technology

Survey of 400 academics reveals almost all admit involvement in at least one unacceptable research practice

Welsh institution helps keep the maritime economy afloat as applications remain buoyant

Archive of Lake Distrtict dynasty also ‘invaluable’ for scholars studying John Ruskin and Arthur Ransome

England urged to learn lessons from country’s experience of steep rise in undergraduates after relaxation of controls

V-c speaks on marketing research, ethics, gender bias at Universia International Presidents’ Meeting 2014 in Rio de Janeiro

Middlesex lecturer gets to the bottom of meaningless phrases found while marking essays

The urban dreams of those with degrees are driving up prices in US metropolitan hubs and driving out those with no tertiary education

Intervention follows governors’ sudden decision to place vice-chancellor on leave

THE analysis reveals no correlation between applications and leaders’ pay as performance targets remain shrouded in secrecy

Anger as funding for scientific researchers fails to materialise

Louisiana State University president says some US institutions fear new ratings system because they have been misleading students

Former minister’s proposal for universities to buy share of student debt has divided opinion

The latest higher education appointments

University libraries join project to extend UK Medical Heritage Library online resource

John Allen, who wrote to The Lancet about the role of metrics in redundancies, has been dismissed for refusing to teach a course

Bedfordshire has been told by the Home Office that it can resume its recruitment of international students

The academic who developed genetic fingerprinting has won what is believed to be the world’s oldest scientific prize

Many university applicants do not have a back-up plan if they fail to achieve the grades they need for their preferred course, a new survey says

The number of Scottish students winning a higher education place is up despite a slight fall in the pass rate for Scottish Highers

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Falmouth’s course in creative advertising takes unconventional admissions route

Pressure of higher fees and rise in en-suite accommodation blamed

The first six master’s degrees in cyber security to be certified by GCHQ have been unveiled

The University of Warwick has been ridiculed on social media for its suspension of the prominent critic of higher education policy

Janet Beer has been named as the next University of Liverpool vice-chancellor

A number of protesters have been evicted from the University of Birmingham building they were occupying in reaction to the suspension of two students

‘Shiny’ projects and disjointed policies criticised in report on Hefce spending

Selectividad test removed in effort to drive up traditionally low number of entrants from abroad

University leaders voice concerns about impact of party’s mooted plan to lower fees to £6,000

West Country campus focuses on student exchange schemes and boosting overseas intake

Hefce reveals information from 21 complaints concerning institutions

Student loans access for a master’s qualification thought to be principal cause

The latest higher education appointments

For UK institutions seeking international partners, there is much potential in Brazil outside the three big cities

Expert warns that new threshold could mean ‘sudden death’ threat for smaller universities