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

A neuroscientist and philosopher who offered many sharp insights into how our brains generate perceptions of the world has died

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

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

University revises policy after backlash from academics

Institutions need to establish ‘nuanced’ notions of excellence, expert on African development tells THE Africa Universities Summit

Asia increases its standing in this year's Times Higher Education World Reputation Rankings

However, director of the Oxford Martin School says 'disciplinary silos' were one factor contributing to 2008 financial crisis

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

‘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

Universities ministers with academy experience boost nations’ standings, research finds

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

A leading physics educator has died

Negative stories including collapse of Kids Company appear to be making the public more wary of major research funders

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

After months of criticism over potential chilling effect of new rules, campaigners say clarification is ‘good news’

Money is designed to help institutions ‘attract and retain the best and brightest researchers from around the world’

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

A highly influential and wide-ranging sociologist has died

Alan Ruby remembers a pioneer of Asian American studies

Wellcome Trust Monitor Report finds more certainty about the benefits of breakthroughs, but a mixed picture of general scientific knowledge

Following previous trips to the country, physicist receives huge welcome after joining Chinese social network

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

As the latest film about academia is released, Matthew Reisz considers the portrayal of mathematicians and other scholars in popular culture

Universities UK analysis claims that students from the rest of the European Union ‘spend money and create jobs in all corners of the UK’

Academic casts doubt on universities’ spin-off success and impact on SMEs

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

Paul Blackmore explains the challenges posed by his Leadership Foundation report

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

Scientific misconduct increasingly studied as example of ‘occupational crime’, researcher says

BERA vice-president Ian Menter examines a confusing reference to his work in the government's teacher training proposals

The leading geographer talks to Karen Shook about how to learn from your audience and help build a better politics too

Marquette University row follows professor’s online criticism of ‘liberal’ colleague

Hermann Hauser, who led efforts to launch Catapult network of commercialisation centres, sees a major cultural difference between UK and Germany

One of the leading radical geographers of her generation has died

Wiley and Elsevier attacked over failures to deposit papers as research funder warns it could withdraw funding for hybrid journals

Study suggests saturation point of higher education expansion is some way off

US analysis questions link between Twitter success and scholarly merit, raising doubts about the use of social media data in altmetrics

In the first of a series of blogs based on the opening seminar of the Centre for Global Higher Education, Paul Ashwin takes a fresh look at a thorny concept

Housing crisis in Oxford, Cambridge and London means the cost of loan and joint equity schemes has tripled in past five years

Inadequate preparation, failure to keep control and poor time-keeping are among Athene Donald’s six deadly sins

As the number of papers needing review increases, journals are thinking of replacing a voluntary system with cash rewards

Academic is awarded Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for solving Fermat’s Last Theorem

Interviews paint a bleak picture of morale at Yonsei University, raising further concerns about country’s attempt to internationalise

The release of millions of journal papers online reflects impatience with an outdated publishing model, says John Willinsky

Researchers set out how academic insights can build trust between different groups

Conference hears that fundamental skills, rather than specific languages, will serve graduates throughout their careers

A historian who transformed our understanding of the origins of ‘print culture’ has died

Non-EU citizens took one in five new posts over past decade, leaving 40 per cent of posts for UK researchers, Hefce figures show

When did academics lose the capacity to discuss their research without slides, asks Gary Rawnsley

Scholars in the UK and Australia contemptuous of impact statements and often exaggerate them, study suggests

Jenny Pickerill reflects on how to overcome sexism and stereotypes in higher education

Institutions are criticised in UCU report for allowing 'shameful levels of pay inequality' to persist

But authors of original paper hit back, saying latest assessment is ‘very optimistic’

Arshin Adib-Moghaddam explores the migrant crisis, and universities’ role in it

John Holmwood explains why attendees of the Second Convention for Higher Education plan to write their own legislation

Although overall resource funding will rise, most of this extra money will go to multidisciplinary research