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The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2013 shows a responsive attitude and landmark infrastructure projects help to create contentment. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Existing legislation fails to cover Student Loans Company cash

Numbers treble after change in funding requirements

Informal group admits reform will require more work than previously thought

New ‘ambassador’ aims to improve access to elite institutions

The rest of the world thinks so, says Hefce funding chief

Union takes on management over ‘academic annex’ reforms

Jon Marcus reports on how one of the global capitals of higher education rose to the challenge posed by terror

Robert Gordon head critiques traditional rationale for scholarly activity

Brian Cantor, the vice-chancellor of York University, is to take charge of the University of Bradford as his next post.

A bill to reform the libel system in England and Wales is set to become law after completing its passage through the Houses of Parliament.

The proportion of young people accessing higher education hit a record high of 49 per cent as students scrambled to avoid last year’s tuition fee hikes, a new study says.

The University of Oxford professor of tropical medicine and global health has been named as the new director of the Wellcome Trust.

University staff have been offered a 0.5 per cent pay increase for the next academic year – far below unions’ claims for a salary rise in excess of 3 per cent.

The chief executive of the Scottish Funding Council is to leave his position to join a university, a matter of weeks after a similar move by the head of the English funding council.

The Duke of Westminster has been revealed as the country’s richest university chancellor in a list of the UK’s wealthiest people.

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed

The University of Central Lancashire is shelving plans to switch to private company status, potentially dealing a blow to other post-1992 universities’ hopes of making the move and opening up to commercial investment.

Academic opposition to outsourcing at the University of Sussex is building, with staff from ten schools, departments and research centres publishing statements supporting protests at the institution.

Ensuring that knowledge translates into growth will be among the priorities the incoming government chief scientific adviser Mark Walport has set himself for the next five years.

Students at the London School of Economics who were on a controversial visit to North Korea with undercover BBC journalists have hit out at the university, saying it has placed them in greater danger than the trip itself.

School pupils from poorer backgrounds could be contacted by the government to nudge them towards applying to university if they get good GCSE grades, David Willetts has said.

Many doctoral candidates do not make clear their work’s scholarly contribution

Instructors and students discuss their experiences of the University of Edinburgh’s debut courses on Coursera

Paul Manners worries that rush to tell research stories turns academics into salesmen and undermines collaboration

Do the data represent the failure of market research or are they the inevitable by-product of a broad curriculum?

Cardiff calls time on anonymous allegations of past misconduct in dean’s lab. Paul Jump reports

The Army’s teamwork ethos shaped the management style of the University of Essex’s Anthony Forster

University says problems at partner colleges affect just 3% of students

Research club offers hands-on access to fascinating materials from aerogel to baby teeth

Overseas students rejected on ‘arbitrary’ grounds, UKCISA report suggests

Vast digital archive of court records 1674-1913 is ‘dead people’s big data’

Theatre director uses fellowship to give dramatic shape to the stories of ex-combatants

Academics count the costs of Panorama’s North Korea exposé

Western universities are refining their offerings as the city-state’s economy gets back on track. Jack Grove reports from the UAE

Legal challenge helped save overseas students from deportation

A gender gap in researchers’ funding successes persists across Europe

Doctoral training centre model poses international challenge for institutions

UUK chief looks to impact to save budget from Augean economy

Wales’ institutions gain funds as a result of cross-border flow under new fees regime

University of South Wales is a behemoth with plans to become even bigger

The US dominates this year’s CWTS Leiden Ranking of the world’s top universities.

The vice-chancellor of the UK’s first private university will attend Baroness Thatcher’s funeral after being invited on her instructions, and has praised her for transforming the nation “wholly for the better”.

The University of Leicester has launched an investigation into a public lecture held by its student Islamic society after pictures of signs at the event suggested that men and women were encouraged to sit separately.

A new draft code of governance for Scottish universities has been condemned as “weak”, “meaningless in places” and offering “nothing new” by student and academic unions north of the border.

Incoming National Union of Students president Toni Pearce has acknowledged that sections of the organisation’s membership are dissatisfied with its direction, and is determined to bring them back on board.

Exceptions in the UK funding councils’ open access policy will be made for researchers hired from abroad, the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s head of research has pledged.

A huge cut to the Australian higher education budget announced just months before the next federal election is the largest since 1996, according to umbrella body Universities Australia.

Action needs to be taken against Scottish universities because senior staff members are being given “worrying levels of high pay”, the National Union of Students Scotland has said.

Arts and humanities PhD graduates from the US are more employable than their UK counterparts, a conference on doctoral education has heard.