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Top UK university lecturers give us their top teaching tips 

Universities were never far from the top of the agenda at this year’s Conservative Party conference, writes Diana Beech

What brings joy? This week, as part of our week of articles on #HEhappiness, academics from five disciplines address this most difficult of questions

Budapest-based institution says negotiations between Hungary and New York State have created ‘basis for an agreement’

Viewed by many academics as an impostor subject, media studies is more critical than ever, says Louise Byrne

Quiet acceptance of accent discrimination damages efforts to make classrooms more inclusive, says Katerina Loukopoulou

Cost of compliance with Home Office rules uncovered by Study Group

Police complaint is filed against Delhi University lecturer after he posted comment on Facebook

Pam Tatlow finds a lively political conference buoyed by talk of abolishing tuition fees

Adam Szetela has been speaking to some high profile scholars about how to write well, and this is what he found out

Intense polarisation of Turkish diaspora, plus online harassment, means refugee scholars feel they are being watched

Unlike in the UK and the US, German graduates tend to vote in quite similar ways to other citizens. But not in the case of the AfD, writes David Matthews

Education debate at the Labour conference in Brighton has gone beyond the easy headlines, says Andy Westwood – but important questions remain unanswered

Nick Hillman writes from the Labour Party Conference in Brighton, where – happily – he finds fewer lobbyists and more activists

Multinational research teams can now bid for money in any scientific area, although funders do not expect security-sensitive projects

Despite advances in artificial intelligence, humans will always have the edge over machines when it comes to teaching, says Aldwyn Cooper

Studies from industry and academia show there are significant benefits to incentivising supportive behaviour, says Theo Gilbert

Tasmanian researchers find it takes 10 hours to plan an hour’s lecture for online students, compared to eight hours for on-campus delivery

No one should underestimate the importance of encouragement in pedagogy, says Tom Pow

Universities are right to re-examine the support in place for students in light of soaring suicide rates, says health secretary Jeremy Hunt

Firm steps up collaboration with university as world’s biggest tech companies race to harness quantum physics

Chris Parr picks through some of the highlights from the tuition fees debate between David Willetts and Andrew Adonis

Lord Willetts and Lord Adonis go head to head in this video debate, tackling UK political issues from tuition fees to vice-chancellor pay levels

Pragya Agarwal explains how lecturers can support first-year students as they make the transition to the self-directed learning required at university

The whole Science and Technology Committee should be disbanded, and the process of establishing it restarted, says Dame Athene Donald

Iran's detention of a history PhD student for alleged spying has been condemned by Princeton and US government

If universities want to get more disadvantaged students into university, they need to help them access the support their better-off peers take for granted, argues James Grant

The way in which academic departments are typically formed creates more barriers than benefits, says Zahir Irani

Sally Hunt lambastes university employment models, which she says would be more at home in Sports Direct

University leaders frustrated by lack of clarity on higher education in party manifestos

Two UK institutions lead our ranking of the best universities for the first time in its history, with Oxford holding on to the number one spot for the second year in a row, while Cambridge has risen to second place

Inaugural HEA award is latest accolade for Yorkshire institution

Eric Royal Lybeck says the Russell Group and UUK do not represent academics and calls for a comprehensive voice representing the professional interests of scholars

Thousands of university staff are set to pay more towards pensions under proposals

HEA's latest National Teaching Fellows announced

Amid growing indifference to the public value of universities, the LSE’s Minouche Shafik suggests four ways to restore confidence and pride in the academy

University of Debrecen bestows honour following involvement in Russian-funded nuclear plant

Seven top universities establish political monitoring units in response to state ‘rectification reports’

Don’t blame vice-chancellors for their salaries – we need to rethink where power lies in universities, says Tom Cutterham

Brain-boosting drugs can help students and academics alike to unlock their potential, says Hemmel Amrania

In the last two decades the number of mainland students going abroad to study has increased more than twentyfold, but what does this mean for employment, asks Ka Ho Mok

Southampton Solent University’s Tere Daly responds to the former political adviser’s article in today’s Daily Telegraph

Pop songs tend to depict higher education as exclusive and oppressive, finds study

Kurdistan shows that post-conflict countries can build a thriving higher education sector by working with foreign partners, says Dlawer Ala’Aldeen

Together, FE and HE can become a dynamic force for skills development in the UK, writes Alison Whittle

Taking in a refugee student posed more challenges than Sharon Maxwell Magnus was expecting, but the effort was well worth it

The success of the student boycott of the National Student Survey is not necessarily a success for students, writes Andrew McRae 

The Humboldt University of Berlin, the historical home of interdisciplinarity, is experimenting with new ways to encourage a broader perspective 

Many students aren’t reporting sexual harassment or assault on campus despite efforts to tackle the problem, say Hareem Ghani and Graham Towl

Prevent monitoring and defeat of legal challenge shows that anti-extremism policy is not limiting academic freedom, says Hifsa Harron-Iqbal

Expanding degree apprenticeships will strengthen universities’ important role in improving their local communities, says Dawn Morley

German institutions and the publishing giant have still failed to agree a new deal. Could this become permanent?

Creator of Leicester’s courses in applied geology remembered

We discuss the challenges facing early career researchers, parenthood and tearful graduations with the award-winning University of Massachusetts Amherst geoscientist

Emily McIntosh and David Grey offer advice on rediscovering a ‘lost art’

John McCormack has been speaking to teaching-only staff at Russell Group universities, and they have plenty of reasons to be annoyed

Nazima Kadir’s social circle reveals a range of alternative careers for would-be scholars, and often with better rewards than academia

Investigative journalist Emilia Sercan defied threats to uncover high-level ring of fraudulent PhDs

Providing support for learners on low-cost ‘flat-pack degrees’ is key to expanding international higher education in Australia and worldwide, says Merlin Crossley

‘Drastic action’ required to fix multibillion-pound shortfall in Universities Superannuation Scheme, expert warns