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Forum discusses efforts to increase mobility of Europe’s academics

Former president says online courses could drive down costs

Former prime minister’s higher education policies still elicit respect and rancour. Jack Grove reports

Nasir Warfa believes he is on a US security watch list, writes David Matthews

Cross-party group will review for-profit higher education operators

Future European funding may depend on identifying how research affects women as well as men

Affluent students who miss out on elite places ‘hyper-mobilise’ to retain status

Report says distribution would change little if based on institutions’ research council income

Clear sight essential, thick skin an advantage: Hepi’s outgoing director looks back on 11 years of scrutiny on the sector’s behalf

Yachtswoman’s charity funds research into innovative economic ideas

Black and ethnic minority academics still suffer racism, study finds. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Unions fear job losses will fund institution’s lofty research ambitions

New head of all-women Murray Edwards College, Cambridge makes equality a priority

Demise of matched funding leaves majority of institutions worse off. David Matthews reports

Regional competitors are hot on Japan’s heels in inaugural THE Asia University Rankings

Overall funding for Welsh universities is set to increase by 13.6 per cent next academic year.

A cyclist killed earlier this week in London has been named as University College London academic Katharine Giles.

Cardiff University’s dean of medicine has been cleared of research misconduct but the institution has found a former member of his lab guilty of image falsification in four papers.

Boys have been deterred from going to university more than girls in the first year of higher tuition charges, a new study by the Independent Commission on Fees says.

The founders of Mendeley have insisted that selling the company to the controversial academic publisher Elsevier will result only in “good things”

Research Councils UK has removed from its guidance on its open-access policy an exhortation for institutions and authors to make sure a “proper market in article fees” operates.

Toni Pearce has been elected as the next president of the National Union of Students, promising to fight for “a movement where students’ unions are leading from the front and aren’t just an afterthought”.

London Metropolitan University will again be allowed to recruit international students after the Home Office ended the revocation of its visa licence.

Students today face a “triple-dip recession” consisting of a lack of jobs, opportunities to study and future prospects, according to the president of their national union.

Margaret Thatcher’s “revolutionary” reforms helped to transform an ailing university system into a world-leading higher education system, a vice-chancellor has said.

National Union of Students’ president Liam Burns has called for “sensitivity” and “respect” after some delegates at the union’s annual conference were heard to cheer news that former prime minister Baroness Thatcher had died.

Salaries for full-time faculty members at US colleges and universities are slowly recovering after years of below-inflation rises, although higher education institutions are increasingly reliant on part-time staff, a report has revealed.

Part-time study needs “unprecedented support” to help kick-start the UK’s flagging economy, Labour peer Baroness Bakewell has said.

In a further sign of the growing scientific prominence of data sets, Nature Publishing Group has launched a new open-access platform that will peer review and publish detailed descriptions of their contents.

The British Library – and the nation’s other legal deposit libraries – have officially taken on responsibility to archive UK web content, opening up immense opportunities for researchers.

Australian academics should not be contractually bound always to split their time equally between teaching and research, the vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide has said.

Three unions at the University of Sussex have begun the process that could lead to strikes over outsourcing plans at the university.

V-c aims for more international and postgraduate action

Scholars downplay regional accents to avoid prejudice, Newcastle University study shows

Cases of serious cheating fall by 60 per cent, company says

Universities must address perception among staff of institutions’ ‘mediocre performance’, hears David Matthews

Historian invites former students to dinner as part of ‘retirement odyssey’

Forum hears doubts about uncollaborative and ‘imperialist’ initiatives

Archive’s historical material will be lost unless sector offers it a home

Episciences Project offers new publishing formula

Canadian human-rights case highlights disquiet at practices of Beijing-funded centres up on foreign campuses

Experiences highlight potential risks of overseas ventures for UK universities

Watchdog ‘is not putting enough pressure’ on elite universities to widen participation, says report

‘Social engineering’ might be needed to help integrate international students, Sheffield pro v-c says

Several bodies could carry out university inspections simultaneously to cut the administrative burden

Academics prefer to publish their research under the most restrictive forms of copyright, a survey has suggested

For-profits welcome delay but may have to get ready for quality assessment, John Morgan writes

Publication ethics committee issues new guidelines for peer review

US president Barack Obama’s announcement that $100 million (£66 million) is to be invested in an initiative to map the human brain has been welcomed by the country’s higher education institutions.