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A university education department has warned that it may have to make redundancies as a result of government cuts to allocations of teacher training places.

Government rhetoric over visas is to blame for a perception that the UK is not a good place for international students to set up a business, according to a recent survey

Reluctance to contest marks or ask for help may be factors in attainment gap. Jack Grove writes

Loss of international student licence exacts heavy toll on London Met. David Matthews reports

Ucas data demonstrate wide-ranging impact of fees and funding changes. John Morgan reports

Ucas data demonstrate wide-ranging impact of fees and funding changes. John Morgan reports

International research unit will tackle ‘lack of data’ on higher education. David Matthews reports

A sideways look at the week’s big stories

Leaked documents reveal backlash over mooted changes to assessment at Surrey

Students at some of the UK’s leading university computer science departments are going head-to head to prove their cyber security skills by battling it out in an online code-breaking challenge.

New College of the Humanities, the privately funded higher education institution charging fees of £18,000 a year, plans to open a free school in partnership with a private school firm.

The University of Bristol was one of the biggest winners in the first year of higher fees, expanding its new student cohort by 28 per cent, while London Metropolitan University saw its intake shrink by 43 per cent.

Staff levels at UK higher education institutions have dropped for the second consecutive year, new figures show.

A drop in student numbers of 30,000 this year could cost the country more than £6 billion over the next 40 years, according to a new report.

Matthew Reisz on the law centre marking a decade of human rights battles in a new university home

Mark Harper shares with John Morgan some good and bad news for the sector on immigration policy

The number of students gaining first-class degrees has risen by almost 50 per cent over the past five years, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency have shown

Until the age of slides and computer displays, printed wallcharts and three-dimensional models were essential teaching tools within universities. Many combined scientific accuracy with great beauty and artistic skill. These are just some of the most striking examples from the extensive collection held by the University of Dundee's museum.

Oft-criticised scholarship scheme’s riches will now follow the poor, BIS states. Jack Grove reports

UCU set for tough talk over resources and strategy, general secretary Sally Hunt tells Jack Grove

Rise in staff submissions predicted despite tightened funding formula. Paul Jump reports

Effort to halt male bias on event panels sparks controversy. Elizabeth Gibney and Paul Jump write

Essay-writing firm denies inconsistency in its director penning satirical novel. Paul Jump reports

Oft-criticised scholarship scheme’s riches will now follow the poor, BIS states. Jack Grove reports

Lecturers’ live-to-camera marking of student work proves to be a low-budget hit, reports Chris Parr

Jon Marcus on military veterans trading drills and battlefields for disciplinary fields and fundraising

A sideways look at the week’s big stories

Post-study employment changes and a shrinking ‘expat premium’ prompt second thoughts about value of overseas study. Joanna Sugden reports from New Delhi

Departing head of Nottingham’s infections centre calls for redoubled efforts. Matthew Reisz writes

In the first of a series surveying research evidence about teaching and learning, Graham Gibbs considers the findings on large class sizes

Mark Harper shares with John Morgan some good and bad news for the sector on immigration policy

Queen Mary, University of London, has created a professorial chair in animal replacement science.

The number of academics submitted to the research excellence framework is likely to exceed the number submitted to the last research assessment exercise, new figures suggest.

The UK’s move towards open-access publishing will inevitably place some learned societies’ journals into financial jeopardy, according to the chair of the committee that recommended making the transition.

INTO University Partnerships, which co-owns international student centres with several universities, has sold a 25 per cent stake of its business to a private equity firm for £66 million.

The government has announced that it will ease over-recruitment fines for universities and not cut 5,000 places from their allocations, while calling for "restraint" on staff pay.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

The UK's top 100 degree-level employers recruited fewer graduates than expected in 2012, while expected increases in the number of vacancies this year will still leave recruitment figures 11 per cent lower than pre-recession levels.

Two universities have collaborated to help launch a "university centre" in the south of England in an effort to boost people's access to higher education in the area.

The Reverend Peter Neil has been appointed the next vice-chancellor of Bishop Grosseteste University, one of ten specialist institutions recently awarded university title.

The University of Buckingham is considering whether to take on Uganda students after it suspended a validation agreement in the country because of fears over freedom of speech regarding homosexuality.

The number of Indian students studying at UK universities fell by 24 per cent last year, as the government’s tightening of the student visa system took effect.

The number of UK students entering postgraduate study plunged by 8 per cent last year, new figures show.

Universities with lower entry requirements could be at greatest risk of losing students and millions of pounds in income under the new funding regime, data suggest.

It’s tough for minority academics, as evidence of discrimination attests. David Matthews writes

Call for European Union to establish output-tracking database. Paul Jump reports

A 17th-century priest's chasuble in hand-made gros point lace and a blue sample from a 20th-century design portfolio are among the objects, documents and artefacts, some 75,000 in number, held in the lace archive at Nottingham Trent University's School of Art and Design.

New loan-funding system may leave council unable to prevent over-recruitment, writes John Morgan