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The Medical Schools Council has announced a project to widen participation in medicine and improve university selection processes in the subject.

Australia’s new higher education minister is to consider re-imposing a numbers caps on undergraduate admissions amid concerns about quality

The scientist who developed the first-ever prototype for an “invisibility cloak” has been given a top award by the Institute of Physics.

Some students at the University of Liverpool have been sent the wrong degree results, after the Russell Group institution experienced a “technical problem”

Glasgow Caledonian University has said it is happy that the PhD thesis of Iran’s new president elect is properly referenced and is not undertaking a formal academic investigation

The number of graduate vacancies at leading employers is now at its highest level since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, boosted by openings in the public sector, a survey has found.

Academics should be proud about the contributions they make to Wikipedia, instead of treating them like a “shameful secret”.

The insurance group AXA has funded a €1 million (£850,000) chair at Imperial College London.

A former director of research at England’s funding council has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of Canterbury Christ Church University.

Deadlines to appeal final degree results differ vastly between universities, according to research by the consumer rights charity Which?

The European Union’s next research and innovation funding programme, known as Horizon 2020, looks set to begin on schedule next year

An Australian vice-chancellor has been named as the new head of King’s College London.

The US Senate has approved an immigration reform bill that could grant students and graduates who were brought into the country illegally as children the right to citizenship.

The number of EU students participating in the Erasmus scheme is set to almost double.

Announcement comes as new details emerge about increased science capital budget

A chemistry professor whose lessons have been viewed on YouTube by thousands of students across the world is one of this year’s winners of the Higher Education Academy’s National Teaching Fellowships.

More than a third of recent graduates in work are doing jobs that do not require a degree, new figures show.

Fifteen per cent of the university spin-offs incorporated in 2000, 2001 and 2002 have so far made a “successful exit” by way of trade sales or flotations on the stock exchange, data show

Government’s latest scheme already seen as insult abroad

US-style charges await in unregulated system, education expert warns

Students offered ‘fun, novel’ way to learn how to write paper ‘abstracts’

Management would not listen to alternative views, duo state

Anant Agarwal, president of edX, tells Chris Parr about online learning, money - and his egg-selling entrepreneurial past

Kingston scheme encourages feedback from all types of undergraduates

Stonewall survey rates Cardiff and Liverpool John Moores as best for supporting gay, lesbian and bisexual students

Transfer should be reversed to improve widening participation, Bill Rammell says

Those once threatened with deportation can’t leave, v-c tells conference

University defends short-term contracts as source criticises ‘game-playing’

Applicant takes Kent to tribunal over doctorate criterion

The desk and spectacles pictured belonged to Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), the German polymath whose travels in Latin America led to the first serious scientific account of the continent

The new chancellor of the University of South Wales tells David Matthews that the word deters poor pupils

UCL celebrates 150th anniversary of arrival of noblemen who modernised their country

Funds are allocated on project quality not desire to support elite, says minister. Chris Parr reports

After 12 months barred from travel to US, Nasir Warfa can reopen his diary

Heather Munroe-Blum outlines her institution’s ‘complex mission’

Protection for science and research spending will be maintained in 2015-16 while the capital budget will be increased to £1.1 billion, the chancellor George Osborne announced today.

The National Scholarship Programme is to be cut by £100 million and made postgraduate-only, as part of savings announced in the coalition’s spending round.

The capital budget for science will be increased to £1.1 billion in 2015-16 and maintained in real terms until the end of the decade, the chancellor George Osborne has announced.

Leighton Andrews, the Welsh education minister who drove through controversial university mergers, has been forced to resign his position

Science should be able to bid against other spending areas such as road-building for capital investment, the chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has argued.

A conference being held this week is setting out to revive a neglected area of research which the Arab Spring has put back in the world’s spotlight.

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has predicted that the new higher education funding regime will harm the creditworthiness of some UK universities, widening the gap between the “strongest and weakest”.

A landmark case on the use of affirmative action in university admissions has ended up without a clear winner after a ruling by the US Supreme Court.

New report says total debt burden doubled in five years

The US has reclaimed its position as the biggest spender on higher education, as rising fees pushed it clear in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s annual figures.

For many a creationist or devout religious believer, it is a scene straight from a nightmare

A decision by the House of Commons Education Committee to launch an inquiry into the government’s flagship policy for recruiting teachers has been welcomed by a higher education group.

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed

The coalition’s aim to reduce net migration to the “tens of thousands” by 2015 makes more than half of international students in the UK feel less welcome, according to a new survey.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has reached a settlement with the Treasury in negotiations over the 2015-16 spending review, reports suggest

Study suggests women more likely than men to turn down invitations to speak

University lecturers should be required to take teacher training classes, according to an EU commission on higher education led by the former president of Ireland Mary McAleese

Consultation to consider use of metrics and case studies in research assessment

Futurelearn boss says talk of drop outs ‘very annoying’

Sources say switch of medical education and research budgets to Department of Health increasingly unlikely

The number of journals denied an impact factor for taking part in citation cartels has risen sharply this year, pushing up the total number of excluded journals.