BTEC students ‘less likely to gain top degrees’, suggests study
HEA-commissioned report says those with vocational background may need more support, but also warns against seeing such qualifications as inferior
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Top Canadian scientist leaving country for UK over ‘worrisome’ research cuts
Robert Brownstone will take up the role of chair of neurosurgery at University College London
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Baroness Amos: emulate US on racial diversity in leadership
Next director of Soas says UK higher education can learn much from across the Atlantic
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Put flexibility at core of part-time provision, universities told
Many part-time students forced to miss part of their course, HEA survey finds
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Cuts to Disabled Students' Allowances back on agenda
Government reductions could leave universities to fund most help for disabled students
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Sunderland names Shirley Atkinson as vice-chancellor
Interim University of Sunderland leader succeeds Peter Fidler in top job
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Elsevier journal editors ‘may be asked to resign’ in open access row
Institutions pressure Elsevier to permit all Dutch papers to be freely available online by 2024
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Duke of York is new University of Huddersfield chancellor
Prince Andrew will succeed Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart
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Yvette Cooper backs increased science spend with 3 per cent GDP target
Labour leadership candidate calls for 'revolution in science' and increased research and development spend
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Private college’s retention rates ‘unsatisfactory’, says QAA
ABI College investigation finds only two of 45-strong cohort have achieved intended qualifications
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UK universities at risk from ‘ill-informed’ immigration debate, warns Cambridge v-c
Sir Leszek Borysiewicz draws on his own background as the child of Polish immigrants to counter ‘negative’ rhetoric on immigration
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Sir Ken Macdonald: 'obnoxious' anti-radicalisation measures attack campus free speech
Senior lawyer criticises Counter Terrorism and Security Act
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Break down barriers between universities and industry, says report
Complexity of government initiatives to help commercialise university research under scrutiny
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University graduate employment performance revealed
London Metropolitan University records biggest improvement in Hesa data
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THE podcast: 2 - 8 July 2015 issue review
This week's issue discussed by the Times Higher Education team