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Union threatens action over subtraction of a day’s pay for a two-hour walkout

Academic proposes biomedical public-private partnerships to protect the ‘R&D ecosystem’ from commercial affairs

Small increase in fundraising staff prompts questions over sector’s ability to meet £2 billion target by 2022

How are universities dealing with upheavals in the training of key workers, from teachers and nurses to police officers and social workers?

Signatories commit to greater transparency to assuage public concerns

Lecturer’s contract not renewed after he set up out-of-hours module to broaden curriculum

Study proposes code of practice for recruitment firms to help address inequality

Consumer legislation will provide tools to ‘whack’ universities, Westminster Higher Education Forum hears

Contract lecturers down tools in protest over pay ‘that does not reflect hours worked’

An assessment boycott has been dropped, but fair pay is still a long way off, says general secretary Sally Hunt

UCU branch ‘strongly opposes’ changing scope of statute

Which countries are steaming ahead in scientific output and power? Simon Marginson analyses the worldwide data

Universities could be allowed to seek cash without asking funding council’s permission

Robert Appelbaum reveals the highlight of his three-month sojourn in South Africa

Senior scholar says his filmed 5-minute debates may expose the “tensions and contradictions’ in academics’ work

A distinguished academic expert on urban geography and the geographies of development has died

University’s 10-week project featured talk by Michael Berlin on First World War conscientious objectors

Universitas 21 grading introduces new measure of purchasing power

A Wales-funded public policy institute is to supply evidence to policymakers and create an ‘innovation culture’

Susan Bassnett wonders why PhD examining is still so amateurish and inconsistent in English universities

Study reveals challenges for US universities seeking alliances in Argentina, Brazil and Chile

Universities are working hard and succeeding in their aim to improve life for their students, as Times Higher Education’s Student Experience Survey results show

Behind the scenes at science plays: the writers, their intentions and what they achieve

The former Soviet satellite is working to raise standards and to court foreign students

Although tuition charges emerge as most important factor for international students in Hobsons survey

But animal rights group criticises move for not going far enough

The UK’s social mobility debate is too narrowly focused on a “small number of elite universities” and needs to be “dragged out of the 1970s”.

But Cable warns that intervention options are constrained by law

Australia is to remove all caps on tuition fees, a move billed as allowing its universities to compete with “the best in the world”.

A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

The impact of transnational higher education on host nations is mainly positive, although more could be done to raise awareness among students.

A vice-chancellor has made an impassioned defence of the benefits to universities of European Union membership amid the rise in popularity of Ukip.

The government has launched a campaign to attract more women into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths.

An academic best known for his attempt to land a spacecraft on Mars has died aged 70.

Built almost 20 years ago on derelict land, the institution is now the beating heart of the community

But tribunal cuts scientist’s payout by 20 per cent to reflect ‘perverse’ attitude

Recommendation to extend demand-driven route likely to get green light

Poor levels of financial support will ‘force women to return to work too quickly’

National University of Ireland considers lending its name to give the republic’s online offerings global recognition

Look to Ireland, not Australia, to see the damage caused by unfettered recruitment, says Bahram Bekhradnia

UK cancer charity is building on ‘monumental progress’ in treating the disease with more funding for researchers

Universities’ zeal for student feedback centres on NSS surveys and best-practice audits; those expressing critical views are increasingly unwelcome

Celebrity creations and vintage gowns delight in an exhibition that marries social history and fashion, says Shahidha Bari

Leaving the Union will help a world-renowned sector to further extend its reach, argues Michael Russell

Union seeks court clearance to bill lecturer in failed anti‑Semitism claim

Ferdinand von Prondzynski stresses the importance of improving university-industry links, whatever the result

Marking boycott called off as 2 per cent offer accepted

The bioscience teacher of the year, whose pedagogical skills were honed on the fly, is pressing for more recognition of teaching. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Discoveries by laypeople are rare but free access to research results would increase the likelihood, says Richard Price

Australian survey suggests women pay a higher career penalty when they become parents

A leading light in the study of culture fought many battles that now need to be fought again

Nations paying to send students and researchers abroad often fail to assess their value, study finds

A man who revolutionised public engagement with science has died

Vice-chancellor of Bayero University Kano says his institution grew stronger after a deadly 2012 attack

We speak to the new vice-provost (international) at University College London, a former High Commissioner to South Africa