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While the UK is a net contributor to the European Union overall, it does get back more research money than it puts in, figures suggest

With earnings inequality inflaming industrial unrest over pay, figures show most salaries are relatively static while top staff get more

UCU leader will tell congress that docked salaries should be handed to student hardship funds

Do people fear the menace of 'transient academics', or is it just more scholarly infighting? Gerard Kelly writes

Move to axe 14 per cent of workforce branded ‘devastating’, but v-c insists change needed

Jean Monnet chairs say they encourage full debate on the union, although one has written that when the EU is criticised, ‘our instinct is to defend it’

Dominic Glynn urges academics who are just starting out to shout their research from the rooftops 

The UK’s leading role in shaping the future of science would be lost if voters choose to leave research ‘superpower’, pro-Remain voices warn

Charles Bailyn's time in Asia has opened his eyes to the high regard in which a liberal arts education is still held internationally

Brazil dominates the list of Latin America’s best universities as judged by Times Higher Education’s Academic Reputation Survey

Canadian academic argues people should get access to free higher education in return for their contribution to society

After failing to be shortlisted for several jobs, a black British lecturer decided to apply to universities using a ‘whitened name’

Justification for the teaching excellence framework in the 2016 HE White Paper is flawed, says Dorothy Bishop

Two-day walkout follows offer branded an 'insult' by the UCU, but employers claim strike will have 'no to low impact'

Higher education institutions should not fear failure when it comes to new technology, says Kerri Morgan

Possible mass resignation of external examiners in pay dispute raises concerns about sector’s use of contracts, says legal expert

Feminist historian Catherine Hall will not accept her share of a lucrative award, calling her move an ‘independent political choice’

Misty Bentz is the inventor of ‘Phynd the Physicist’, a game designed to open dialogue among students about inclusion

A leading researcher in the use of supercritical fluids and superheated water in industry, who founded one of the University of Leeds' first spin-out companies, has died

Researchers find variation in marks given by same lecturers to similar students when working in different departments

Two long-time critics of London Metropolitan University management have been selected for redundancy, but institution dismisses any suggestion of a link

Academics and policy advisers have given their verdict in a study exploring how the REF affects the day-to-day lives of scholars

Research councils, Innovate UK and QR funding will be brought under one new body that will also distribute new money for interdisciplinary research

Without the competitive advantage of EU links, UK universities will be outgunned in the fight for top talent by rich US universities, says Lord Patten

Matthew Hartley ponders how prestigious (and pricey) colleges can justify their course costs

Why one academic takes her students to Dharavi, a large slum in Mumbai, to teach drama

Data on international collaborations hint at importance of place, politics and history

Scholars should cheer up and learn to take the rough with the smooth, says John Tregoning

New book explores the anxieties of Peking and Tsinghua students caught between their parents, the Communist Party and new Western ideas about education

David Tollerton takes issue with Chief Rabbi Ephraim Mirvis' message to university leaders

Two-day strike over 'insulting' 1.1 per cent pay rise offer may affect student exams and marking

University revises policy after backlash from academics

Research Integrity and Peer Review will look at every stage of the scientific process, and could even change its own review system depending on what it finds

Durham, Edinburgh and Queen’s University Belfast pick up inaugural awards for arts, humanities and social science departments

‘Character education’, a concept that has taken off among schoolteachers, could be coming to higher education

Those judging creative scientific ideas fail to fully understand them, potentially hampering breakthroughs, research indicates

Both the government and resurgent left-wing groups are promoting ‘red education’ in the country’s universities

Lobbying intensifies ahead of Lord Stern's review of crucial assessment into university research performance

University issues public statement of support for UK being part of the EU, citing research and mobility benefits

Paper finds that UK sandwich course students ‘outshine’ their overseas counterparts in the final year of university

Universities are beginning to explore using a new set of social media apps as students give up on Facebook and Twitter

Although the UK does well in competitive grant funding, it loses out on EU structural funds

Campus staff will have to report their whereabouts to managers when they leave their ‘normal place of work’ for a morning or afternoon

Almost nine in 10 in staff who took part in online poll do not think the former Ofsted chief is fit to lead institution due to cost-cutting plans

Asked how they would like to be remembered, high-achieving physicists cited intellectual accomplishments while others referred to personal qualities

Analysis reveals some disciplines could leave graduates at a much greater risk of being replaced by machines in the future

Ballot for industrial action is called despite ongoing pay talks over pay claim for 2016-17

Paper finds that universities are more likely to interact with institutions that are geographically closer to them

Take it as a compliment if other people are doing similar studies to you, says Sam Schwarzkopf

Lack of independent working blamed for difficulties making the leap from undergraduate to doctoral work

New head of Staffordshire University says sector must think harder about whether classrooms and lecture halls on campus are suited to modern teaching methods

Russell Group and University Alliance at loggerheads over whether next research excellence framework should assess more at university level

Study also warns that business schools could be producing ever more narcissistic graduates, leading to economic problems in future

Tensions between ‘tribes’ of differing prestige harms sector, says Leadership Foundation report

Fictional depictions of professoriate reinforce negative public perceptions, US study concludes

Plan to rent university estate via travel app seen as solution to higher education funding worries

Groundbreaking study of how target-driven strategies affect staff has attracted international support

Co-editor of advice book for adjunct faculty talks about how to overcome feelings of being ‘untethered’ in the workplace

University of Sydney assessments ask students to edit and write online encyclopedia entries

Rejection hurts more when you don't have a long-term contract to fall back on, says Helen Lees