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Anthropologist gets her hands dirty with Big Apple’s sanitation workers

House of Lords event hears how council and the scholars it has saved have enriched the UK

Woolwich murder reignites debate over university radicalisation

The University of Sheffield has nudged the University of Cambridge into third place in a list of the UK institutions earning the most research income from engineering, Higher Education Statistics Agency data show

Foreign academics had to account for their whereabouts each week, university master complains

Just four European countries spend less as a proportion of national income

IPPR report offers stark warning over £6,000 plans

More scholarships and internships will boost graduates in the business world, says chief executive Martin Davidson

Website dedicated to uncovering academic misconduct goes global

Personalised assessments and more emphasis on exams could help cut out plagiarism, argues associate dean Mark Ridolfo

Martin Hall offers regrets after inglorious June but remains committed to post

Lecturers’ union agrees to trim national committee but not on scale called for by general secretary Sally Hunt

Convention for Higher Education’s rallying cry against coalition’s university reforms

Digital collection of 5 million pages aims to ‘open window’ on to India’s recent past

Founder Michael Bulman digs in as academics expound on offering’s weaknesses

The Welsh government has said it will look into “radical” innovations in higher education, including compressing undergraduate degrees into two years.

The banning of psychoactive drugs amounts to one of the worst cases of scientific censorship in modern times, researchers have argued.

Universities have been lambasted for their “excruciatingly slow progress” on switching away from investments in “unethical” industries such as oil.

Universities in Wales have launched a report that argues that they create £3.6 billion for the country’s economy every year.

Labour’s shadow business secretary is “open” to setting a target to increase overseas students if the party returns to power as the major export industry has been “taken hostage by the Home Office” under the coalition.

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

The Home Office has concluded that the student visitor route into the UK is being used as intended and not as a back door route to work or settlement

Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a “crisis” in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend

George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review

Minister and BIS take close interest in study with enormous policy implications

Cuts to admin staff will harm brand, say Cass Business School academics

Emily Wilding Davison famously stepped into the path of the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913

Scholarly talent search winners for 2013 to bring insights to the nation

Despite loss of teaching grant, universities must still comply with enrolment targets

Royal Institution provokes online backlash over decision to trademark title

Critics of university deal point to repression in Gulf state

Row over use of language in sector a moot point, study finds

When deciding where to publish their research, less than one in three academics see it as very important that a journal makes its articles available for free on the internet, a survey has found

Crowdsourcing is invaluable to researchers, but why do people do it and how can their interest be maintained?

Only £21m of £130.5m scheme reaching student pockets, Hefce finds

Reassure junior researchers but make senior scientists know they’re being watched, scholar argues

Business secretary will argue against sector cuts and for extra investment

Mayor confident in capital’s academic brand values

Parallel sectors would overcome problems of ‘one-size-fits-all’ funding, group argues

Conference hears of funding problems, graduate unemployment and mission creep

Europe-wide survey shows students don’t understand plagiarism

Scholars go hungry as a result of casualisation, congress hears

Former CBI head says interaction’s the key to productivity

Spiders star in scholar’s photographic study

The Science Museum Group may completely close one of its three museums outside London, its director has said.

The University of Salford has confirmed plans to close virtually all courses in modern languages, politics and contemporary history and shut down an entire school “to secure the future of the university” after seeing falling student demand.

Fewer British universities are hitting their overseas student recruitment targets this year in the wake of the government’s visa changes and Indian student numbers have again been hit, according to Universities UK.

Groups of universities could raise funding for postgraduate student loans by issuing bonds, a report by the thinktank CentreForum has suggested.

A student Islamic society has apologised after a video was posted on its Facebook site claiming the killing of a soldier in Woolwich was a government hoax.

Moving medical education and research funding to the Department of Health would “pose a significant threat to the UK’s leading position” in the fields, medical schools have warned George Osborne.

Jackie Hunter has been appointed as chief executive and deputy chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.