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LSE professor favours Publish or Perish over peer review for evaluation exercise. Paul Jump reports

Experts fear race to the bottom and a squeezed middle. John Morgan and Simon Baker report

Overhaul will turn funding council from grant-giving quango into 'classic regulator', writes Simon Baker

Exeter posts a jump as the ancients vie for top honours again this year. Sarah Cunnane reports

White Paper seeks to ease restrictions on what can be called a 'university'. Simon Baker reports

The University and College Union is set to link up with public sector unions in a national strike over pensions - but one vice-chancellor expects to count the number of strikers "on one hand".

Majority expect to emerge stronger, but a short tail fear reforms' negative impact, writes Simon Baker

Scottish universities will be allowed to set tuition fees at £9,000 a year for students from the rest of the UK, bringing them into line with their English counterparts.

University admissions experts have expressed doubts about plans in today’s higher education White Paper to remove student number controls for high-achieving students.

Politicians, vice-chancellors and lobby groups have all given their initial responses to the publication of today’s White Paper on higher education. Here are a selection:

A quarter of all student places are to be open to full competition in 2012-13, in a government bid to force higher education institutions to vie for the brightest and best applicants at one end of the sector, and to compete on price at the other.

For-profit providers are to be given full access to the student loans system on condition that they agree to follow the same rules on standards, quality and fair access as publicly funded institutions, under proposals in the government’s higher education White Paper.

Despite calls to ban them, America's frat houses continue to court controversy. Jon Marcus reports

US system seen to offer a more continuous scale, say breakaway group. Simon Baker reports

Among international elite, C9 League outshines UK's Russell Group in some areas, Paul Jump finds

Fears of sevenfold increase in upfront fees if NHS stops paying for tuition. Simon Baker reports

EUA study takes aim at increasingly influential university rankings. John Morgan reports

Landmark investigations expose faults but raise questions over limited powers. Simon Baker writes

Reach would-be students via made-in-China sites, UK institutions are advised. Sarah Cunnane writes

Are students being short-changed by a narrow approach to learning? Matthew Reisz reports

Promoting education at local institutions could help to cut costs, Andy Westwood tells John Gill

Jon Marcus reports from Vancouver on the campus project that's taking sustainability to the next level

A large-scale survey has revealed a wide discrepancy between graduate earnings and what students expect to be paid after they finish university.

Academics and support staff at London Metropolitan University are to strike next week over job cuts and redundancy terms – but the vice-chancellor has criticised the action for coinciding with a Left-organised protest.

Powerful public universities are manipulating the “desperation of people whose university systems [have been] completely demolished” to make a “fortune” from overseas branch campuses, a senior university leader has claimed.

A university’s process for closing courses was “not fit for purpose” and the restructure of one of its colleges had a “detrimental impact” on students as a result, an investigation has found.

An independent taskforce headed by the founder of a popular personal finance website has been set up to tackle the “myths and misunderstandings” of the new system of student fees and loans due to come into force in September 2012.

Higher education’s best leaders, managers and administrators have been honoured at an annual awards ceremony, with Birkbeck, University of London taking the top prize.

Times Higher Education has been awarded two of the top accolades at this year’s PPA Awards, taking the title of magazine of the year in its category.

AAUP must stop navel-gazing and form alliances to protect staff, Gary Rhoades tells Jon Marcus

These very different nautically themed objects both come from the collections of the University of Sheffield.

The European Commission's head of higher education has warned that university rankings are "homogenising" institutions across the Continent as a system was launched that aims to counter the research "reputation race".

Anonymous donation of prize Picasso will yield vast sum for Sydney centre. Matthew Reisz writes

Government considers a policy mix to drive down costs to the taxpayer. John Morgan reports

Just one in seven full-time undergraduate courses and one in 50 part-time programmes will be able to present complete information for prospective students as part of the new standard datasets that universities must publish from next year.