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Western universities don’t expect new emir to shake up status quo

Online provision appeals to cash-strapped, unstable nations

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed

Music schools and graduates read financial notices and strike fresh notes

Calls to restrict fields’ funds and scope of study alarm US academics

Australia’s new higher education minister is to consider re-imposing a numbers caps on undergraduate admissions amid concerns about quality

The European Union’s next research and innovation funding programme, known as Horizon 2020, looks set to begin on schedule next year

The US Senate has approved an immigration reform bill that could grant students and graduates who were brought into the country illegally as children the right to citizenship.

The number of EU students participating in the Erasmus scheme is set to almost double.

Heather Munroe-Blum outlines her institution’s ‘complex mission’

A landmark case on the use of affirmative action in university admissions has ended up without a clear winner after a ruling by the US Supreme Court.

New report says total debt burden doubled in five years

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed

Consultation to consider use of metrics and case studies in research assessment

V-c points to reform’s intellectual and vocational benefits

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

Anthropologist gets her hands dirty with Big Apple’s sanitation workers

Western universities scramble to spot fraudulent applications from China’s hypercompetitive students

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

Row over use of language in sector a moot point, study finds

Conference hears of funding problems, graduate unemployment and mission creep

How Bashir Makhoul explores through art the plight of his countrymen

Plans to cut student support may be undermined by court ruling

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Less than 10 years since their introduction, tuition fees will soon disappear from the country. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports

New v-c aims to crowdsource strategy via online meet-up

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Flagship study-abroad scheme may have failed to attract desired numbers. Donna Bowater reports

Institution’s experiment combining classroom and online education aims to clear gridlocked ‘gateway’ courses

Event on academic freedom identifies ‘one-sided far-leftist agitprop’

Students dissatisfied with contact hours, QAA overseas provision review shows. Jack Grove writes

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has called on British universities to help remedy the suppression of Burmese universities by the nation’s former military regime

Obama defends discipline from Republican attacks

Embattled French leader’s attempts to fix university sector’s problems have met with a mixed response

Institution targets untapped foreign market

Planned reforms of higher education in Ireland have come under fire in a speech by the outgoing president of the sector’s main union.

Fossil Free urges universities to dump holdings in fuel companies

Germany ensures degrees of highly skilled migrants are recognised. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports

Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

Starting university-level study in secondary school pays financial and academic dividends, writes Jon Marcus

Jon Marcus reports on how one of the global capitals of higher education rose to the challenge posed by terror

Thinktank calls on federal government to level the playing field

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed

Western universities are refining their offerings as the city-state’s economy gets back on track. Jack Grove reports from the UAE

A huge cut to the Australian higher education budget announced just months before the next federal election is the largest since 1996, according to umbrella body Universities Australia.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Strikers are fighting ‘charter for managerial radicalism’, says academic

Forum discusses efforts to increase mobility of Europe’s academics

‘Race law’ cited in imposition of reductions

Salaries for full-time faculty members at US colleges and universities are slowly recovering after years of below-inflation rises, although higher education institutions are increasingly reliant on part-time staff, a report has revealed.

Australian academics should not be contractually bound always to split their time equally between teaching and research, the vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide has said.

Canadian human-rights case highlights disquiet at practices of Beijing-funded centres up on foreign campuses

Experiences highlight potential risks of overseas ventures for UK universities

US president Barack Obama’s announcement that $100 million (£66 million) is to be invested in an initiative to map the human brain has been welcomed by the country’s higher education institutions.

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed

British Council discussions are under way, reports Donna Bowater from Rio de Janeiro

A powerful union, weak teaching and outmoded curricula are hampering progress. Matt Krupnick reports from Oaxaca

Senior humanities and social science academics come out in support of move to ‘take knowledge out of silos’

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed