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A network of students and academics aims to promote public economic literacy as well as reform the curriculum

Review for Welsh government proposes ‘exceptionally generous’ living cost support

Publication fee chosen over submission fee to make charges fair

New measures to ensure universities are ‘not penalised’ for taking poorer students also outlined for next stage of TEF

Saul Perlmutter tells THE World Academic Summit that there is a ‘fundamental misunderstanding’ of the purpose of research

At THE World Academic Summit, academics and entrepreneurs debate impact of technology on teaching

Academic attainment of disadvantaged students can be improved if they can decide how they are assessed, study claims

Validating antibodies used in experiments could ‘free up billions of research dollars’, head of standards institute says

Academic science still operates on assumptions that have failed to catch up with the realities of today’s family lives, argue scholars

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Academic journal editor-turned-lecturer Hilary Hamnett explains the most common reasons why papers are rejected

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

Times Higher Education’s flagship event will be hosted in partnership with the London university

LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman tells THE World Academic Summit that universities should focus on teaching undergraduates how to discern truth

Eight subject rankings reveal elite group of 14 US and European universities thriving across disciplines

Association of American Universities president also says state of US public universities is like battle to save species from extinction

Wall Street Journal/Times Higher Education league table focuses on universities’ teaching environments

New study adds to concerns over the weakness of Chinese university teaching

But a federal income-contingent system is called for in a book co-authored by Brookings Institution fellow

Chancellor Lizhong Yu tells Jack Grove about how NYU Shanghai hopes its model will turbocharge international mobility

Nicholas Dirks tells THE summit that free tuition would enable government to 'control' public research universities

Former secretary of labor tells THE summit that growing inequality in admissions is ‘national tragedy in the making’

Results come as issue continues to be high up agenda on campuses in the UK and US

Opposition spokesman on higher education also says government tactics on EU students are 'grubby'

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz to tell THE summit that universities rely on public trust and institutional autonomy

Ministers from Asia, Australasia and the Americas explore common challenges

Study being launched at THE World Academic Summit highlights challenges of collecting comparable data on social mobility

A lack of strategy and autonomy are to blame for French universities’ failure to keep pace on transnational education, study suggests

Loan pot cut by two thirds, claims Rafizi Ramli of People’s Justice Party 

Flurry prompts discussion over whether such incidents are more common, or a symptom of social media explosion

Canadian Stephen Toope set to take over from Sir Leszek Borysiewicz in autumn 2017 to lead the prestigious university

Citation analysis reveals potential winners of science’s highest accolade

But others say shifting the problem back to students would simply be the ‘easy way out’ instead of prioritising HE in state budgets

Government review of admissions followed media assertions that misleading entry tariffs are ‘rife’

Annual study from UK estates group shows academic performance has dropped in importance for prospective students

More North African universities turn away from French and Arabic as languages of instruction

Two men who spent time living as animals receive accolade

BioMed Central psychology journal will attempt to tackle publication bias by withholding research results from peer reviewers

Royal Academy of Engineering report reveals which countries are proving most effective in training up engineers to drive economic growth

New resource should offer a lifeline to students displaced by war

Louise Richardson also reiterates fears that EU academics may leave Oxford over Brexit

Hepi report says some universities should increase their funding for mental health services at least threefold

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the world’s media

This graph compares how UK, US and Japanese universities perform on measures of the economic impact of their research

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Louise Richardson says Asian and US universities are hot on Oxford’s heels while Brexit vote is already affecting the institution’s researchers

Small colleges perform well in Times Higher Education US student survey, which will fuel upcoming university ranking for the country

University of Oxford snatches top spot from Caltech in this year’s World University Rankings as Asia’s rise continues

‘Clusters of excellence’ have created highly cited publications, but the amount of money involved is still relatively small

Peter Mathieson says being part of UN HeForShe initiative will allow the university to improve female representation

Federally funded research will now come with an open access clause – but uncertainties remain

New research also finds that the statistical power of studies in social and behavioural science has not improved in half a century

Government support means low- and middle-income students will not have to pay extra

President of the Australian Human Rights Commission says number of attacks on campus is 'seriously under-reported'

Initiative singles out young scholars who have the potential to forge new techniques and ways of thinking

Students report hostility from traders and clashes over whether Hong Kong is part of China in new study

Peer reviews created by self-generated text machines are the latest threat to scientific integrity

More funding is needed to keep scientific research in the Netherlands strong, warn universities

Letter from dozens of faculty members follows dean of students' warning that institution did not support suppression of controversial views

Can a pan-European initiative bring in more students and help them make informed choices about universities?