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A leading figure in American foreign policy and a long-term dean at Georgetown University, who was described by Hillary Clinton as “a true champion for human development and women’s progress”, has died

Financial modelling likely to include cuts to research budget although student support most ‘vulnerable’ after 2015

We speak to the new vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester and former chief executive of the ESRC

UCU passes motion as government guarantees £230 million public bond to fund Waterside campus

Ferdinand von Prondzynski welcomes planned legislation that addresses key university governance issues

From election monitoring to military tips, Matthew Reisz meets the man who uses systems thinking as a force for good

Sonal Minocha recalls her own experience as an international student and argues that post-study work visas must be brought back

Massimo Mazzotti on the legacy of the 1964 movement

Degree courses at further education colleges have the potential to ‘change lives, not society’, argues scholar

Legal scholars say threats to sue individual academics over industrial action may expose institutions to greater liability

More football, less theory, says heroin scholar at the head of new hub

Ten branches demand sector conference as union fails to escalate industrial action in response to pay docking threats in marking boycott

A London club’s Middlesex University-accredited two-year degrees promise a pitch-perfect environment to study football

The London university, which was awarded £114 million, heads the list of grant winners in a ‘difficult funding climate’

Stephen Harper’s government is accused of ‘muzzling’ federal scientists at a time of concern over funding. Is it time for more academics to speak out?

Fewer applications prompt concerns over drop in funding and inflationary pressures

Tips on shaping the right environment to encourage entrepreneurial skills and create links between universities and industry. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Dean of Swansea School of Management used ‘unsupportive’ language to dismiss student complaints

The pioneers who examined human sexual desire took personal risks to uncover the realities of sex, this exhibition shows. Fern Riddell writes

Chris Cobb and Maurice Frankel debate the pros and cons

Book dubs Chinese government-funded centres ‘a threat to academic freedom’

John Sutherland, Sarah Churchwell and others pick books that capture truths about the sector

Energy engineering professor Paul Younger says that the accusations of a conflict of interests are ‘beyond risible’

Senior lecturer William Brown awaits professional conduct verdict as an earlier inquiry on a retracted paper is queried

More further education colleges should have the equivalent of degree-awarding powers to ‘redress’ the technical and academic education balance.

Students have been marching in London calling for ‘free education’, in an attempt to push fees back on to the news and political agenda

A University and College Union event saw ‘an outburst and walkout’ by black members in protest at the union’s alleged failure to tackle race issues

Times Higher Education today announces a series of important changes to its flagship THE World University Rankings

Some English universities are interested in the idea of buying the debt of their graduates, but it ‘may not be the smartest investment’

Students must mobilise on the streets and build alliances to win free education, says Deborah Hermanns

The government has agreed to offer more protection to students at private providers, giving them the right to adjudication on unresolved complaints

Alex Salmond has faced criticism after unveiling a monument at a university honouring his commitment to free higher education

A former chief executive of the Medical Research Council will this week set out his vision of how scientists can best fulfil their social responsibility

Early career researchers among those targeted for extra support

Some 78 per cent of professors, 72 per cent of senior managers and about 80 per cent of vice-chancellors and principals in the UK are men

The current £9,000 fee system is financially unsustainable and puts higher education at risk from a failed market, according to a report

By Paul Fain, for Inside Higher Ed

The National Union of Students has outlined its proposals for reforming how higher education in England is funded

The number of international students starting courses at US universities has increased by 7.5 per cent in the space of a year

Classicists and archaeologists are benefiting from technology remarkably similar to that used on the module that landed on Comet 67P

British Council survey suggests students are still outward looking despite slump in number going overseas

Two vice-chancellors have announced that they will be stepping down from their roles next summer

Julia Goodfellow among the three as she bids to be first woman in the post

UCU to consult on halting action to allow more talks, provided academics’ pay is not docked

Scientists and science bodies have reacted with dismay to the decision by the European Commission to axe the post of chief scientific adviser.

Universities minister announces plan to send 5,000 students a year to the subcontinent during his visit to Delhi

Move follows similar action at Liverpool and Bradford, while Ulster staff ask for their university to be ‘grey-listed’

Universities have been urged to use 10 key tactics to boost enrolment in medicine by students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

Anne Corbett flags the ones to watch among commissioners for 2014-19

Manchester students criticise ‘flagship’ programme’s lack of alternative perspectives

The UK has a lower share of researchers in its labour force than the US and Japan, according to an EU Commission report

Learn to recognise and respond to signs of depression and stress. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Institutions ‘disappointingly slow’ at divesting of non-sustainable energy sources, says Bill McKibben

Finding ways to engage thousands of people in discussion online is set to change the higher education landscape

The Poznan Declaration calls on the higher education sector to play a far more active role

Massive open social learning and dynamic assessment on the Open University’s list

Oxford’s deputy registrar excoriates prejudice against able leaders from outside the ‘closed’ culture of the academy

Study Group says universities are ‘proactively’ seeking EU expansion