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Private providers, including universities’ own offshoots, have been pinpointed as a major risk to English higher education in a new report.

The real cost of a University of Oxford education is £16,000 a year and the fees system should be better related to such an amount.

Scientists who developed a theory describing the origin of mass have won the 2013 Nobel Prize for physics.

The number of international students coming to UK universities will grow at a slower rate over the next 13 years than is hoped for by the government.

The UK scores poorly in a major study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on adult literacy, numeracy and other key skills.

Liam Byrne has been made shadow higher education minister in a reshuffle unveiled today by Labour leader Ed Miliband.

Three scientists who elucidated a fundamental process in cell physiology have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

A new monthly online magazine of social research and policy analysis has been launched.

Physicist Peter Higgs is prominent among this year’s list of Nobel Prize predictions by Thomson Reuters citation analyst David Pendlebury

Disabled students are calling on universities to do more to help them to access campus facilities.

This year’s Times Higher Education World University Rankings have sparked reaction from some of the most widely-read news outlets across the globe.

Schools should teach the limits of scientific certainty so the public better understand scientific debate, says president of the Royal Society

New government also aims to cut red tape

Religious body seeks secular redress for ‘trademark infringement’

Critics brand figures for post-study replacement ‘disappointing’

Good news for capital, but fears grow that data reflect growing UK inequality

Born Global research looks to bridge gap between supply and demand

Minister points to ‘incremental’ removal and sounds warning over Labour fees policy

Q-Step programme at 15 universities set to improve social science students’ expertise

The growing importance of tuition fee income for UK universities has been highlighted by Higher Education Statistics Agency data

The insider’s outsider reflects a career at the heart of the higher education sector

Hepi: scrapped courses undermine widening participation

Canada’s early literary and scientific history owes much to two British-born sisters who emigrated to what is now Ontario in 1832

Transparency International report takes aim at sector leadership

Programme may make university-based training financially unviable, says Peter Strike

Massive increase in enrolment since 2007

São Paulo announces further tie-ins at three-day symposium

Poll respondents threatened with redundancy for non-submission

High tuition, bad press and recovering economy cited in falling student numbers

Academics still hidebound by national rules, Commission finds

OU report dubbing 2013 the ‘year of the crowd’ pinpoints emerging technologies set to revolutionise sector

Imperial College London has moved its Translation Studies Unit to University College London.

Three more universities - two from England and one from New Zealand - have signed up to FutureLearn, the UK’s massive open online course provider.

A youth mentor has defended Oxbridge against charges of racial bias in admissions, earning a standing ovation at the Conservative Party conference.

A students’ union vice-president was arrested after objecting to the conduct of police officers searching for drugs at a university party.

Universities were guilty in the past of “extracting money” from business school students without giving them good quality teaching.

A vice-chancellor has declared he is “fed up with employers telling us our students are not employment ready”.

An MP close to David Willetts has admitted defeat on hopes to withdraw students from net migration figures in the near future.

By Michael Stratford, for Inside Higher Ed

Fee loans will be offered to students studying engineering and technology part time as second degrees in a bid to attract more women to the subjects.

Almost two-thirds of students and graduates know someone who has lied on their CV about their qualifications, a survey has found.

Academics will join a host of well-known names for a festival this weekend encouraging each of us to cast our “mind forward 25 years to the 2030s”.

Many universities are still failing to follow official guidance on when to report student complaints to the sector’s ombudsman, it has been warned.

Applications to the Athena Swan Charter for Women in Science continue to grow, the latest set of awards has revealed.

Outgoing Hefce captain proud of guiding sector through choppy waters

New universities may gain most from policy change, argues GuildHE head

Analysts accuse organisation of ‘misrepresenting’ figures

Universities urged to adopt Arrive guidelines

Scholar reflects on risks, regrets, the value of teaching and facing the global future

FoI also shows Patrick McGhee set up inquiry into doomed overseas ventures

Third initiative to foster fairer academy unveiled

Russell Group institutions are by far the most popular UK destinations for overseas students, accounting for more than a third of the numbers in 2011-12