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Graduate vacancies are predicted to rise by almost 12 per cent in 2015, according to a biannual survey of the graduate jobs market

Staff at pre-1992 universities have voted by two to one in favour of accepting plans to end the country’s largest private final salary pension scheme

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

London Business School has continued its climb up the Financial Times’ Global MBA Ranking, claiming second place in the 2015 table

As Burns Night is celebrated around the world, the work of Scotland’s national poet is being brought to a new audience

A joint graduate school is to be established in the Chinese city of Tianjin by the University of Glasgow and Nankai University

Pan-Europe organisations attack Commission plans to move money for strategic investment fund

An academic who was set to become interim vice-chancellor at Oxford Brookes University has been confirmed as the institution’s next permanent head

This year’s Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards - more widely known as the Thelmas - have been opened for entries

The director of Soas, University of London, is to step down from his position this year owing to ill health

Nothing is out of bounds when it comes to higher education, it seems – with the launch of Scotland’s first degree in professional golf

The University of Sussex should not have suspended four students after a protest and should pay compensation, the sector’s complaints body has found

Figures also show 23 per cent of students now enter HE with BTECs

By Michael Stratford, for Inside Higher Ed

First global health research ranking suggests only five UK institutions make major investment   

Academics in Saudi Arabia have been urged in an open letter signed by 18 Nobel Prize winners to condemn the public flogging of blogger Raif Badawi

Medical students must learn to think critically, an academic physician who became the first professor of complementary medicine has warned.

A student at the University of Kent has been named as the Green Party’s spokesman for higher and further education

The University of Bedfordshire has become the second higher education institution in the UK to commit to not investing in the fossil fuel industry

Plans to rebrand itself as ‘King’s London’ have been dropped, principal has confirmed

But report also angers some in HE over PGCE comments

The performance of the whole European research system could be harmed if changes to EU budgets go ahead, it has been warned.

The UK is ranked fifth among the world’s most developed nations for the number of young people with higher education, after rapid progress since 2000

Britain’s research libraries can do far more to help their “unique” collections serve the needs of scholars, their universities and communities

Employers should have more of a say in the design and delivery of the curriculum at universities in order to produce “work-ready” graduates

The head of Ucas has urged universities to “move quickly” and make clear how they intend to ensure fair admissions in the light of A-level reforms

Labour leader also pledges to say more on HE policy ‘by time of manifesto’

U-turn follows Hefce pledge to underwrite inclusion

Science and universities minister says more must be done on issue

University staff will not resume a marking boycott this week after employers put forward amended plans to reform the sector’s biggest pension scheme

Three of the UK’s funding bodies want to “re-test assumptions” about the importance of comparability of standards across the sector’s institutions

The publisher of Nature is to merge with the world’s second largest science publisher, Springer

The number of students awarded a first-class degree soared by 14 per cent last year.

Part-time student numbers have continued a dramatic decline after falling by 8 per cent last year, new figures show

Most admissions staff believe achievements outside the classroom are more important to gaining a university place than 10 years ago, a new study says

The vice-chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University, Philip Jones, has announced that he is to retire next spring

The National Union of Students has accused universities of being ‘prepared to ignore’ incidents of sexual assault and harassment on campus

Freedom of speech has become a “sexual fetish” in the West in light of the Charlie Hebdo terror atrocity, according to academic and writer Will Self

Student groups are holding a series of protests this month against pay inequality in universities

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

The British Library has announced an ambitious “vision for its future development” over the next eight years

Government plans to tackle “extremism” will have a “seriously inhibiting effect on bona fide academic debate in universities”, MPs and peers warn

Graduate recruitment is set to reach its highest level in more than a decade, according to new research

Sutton Trust scheme sends UK applicants to Harvard, Yale and others

A petition has been set up calling for Nigel Thrift, the University of Warwick vice-chancellor, to be stripped of his knighthood.

The University of Huddersfield vice-chancellor Bob Cryan has defended the Duke of York, its patron, in the face of “ridiculous” sex allegations

Government fixated with education departments being ‘Marxist hotbeds’, says Reading v-c

David Cameron and George Osborne have trumpeted universities’ involvement in plans to boost the economy of the North West

Hefce to fund participation after DfE agency pulled plug on money

The University of Ulster has appointed Paddy Nixon as its new vice-chancellor

A national group of collaborative outreach networks working with schools and colleges has launched, four years after a similar project was scrapped

Plan to force overseas students to leave the UK after graduation appears to have been blocked by George Osborne

Middlesex University has announced that Michael Driscoll is to retire as vice-chancellor, to be replaced by The Open University’s Tim Blackman

University teacher training students will be asked not to take part in this year’s National Student Survey after the government withdrew funding

Raising tuition fees to £9,000 has not helped drive improvements in teaching despite the government’s insistence it would improve standards

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

James Dyson has become the latest to criticise plans mooted by home secretary Theresa May’s to send overseas graduates home after their course

The vice-chancellor of Glyndwr University has suddenly left the troubled institution

The comedy of Borat and Ali G creator Sacha Baron Cohen is to be the subject of an in-depth study by university scholars

PhD holders may not be securing a job as easily as some governments believe