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Further 50 per cent of EU-backed schemes result in ‘major scientific advance’

If art has become more academic, might it also be able to refresh other disciplines?

Greek researchers from US institutions hit out at controversial plan drawn up by University of Texas economist

Move by Hamilton College in New York sparks discussion about prescriptive attempts to change curricula

Bath, Cambridge, Imperial, Oxford chosen for two-year master's student pilot

Scholar argues that discussion could benefit from more light and less heat

Institutions need to adapt their courses to account for how climate change is altering business, argues former MBA director

Benefits of proposals for reducing the tax costs of sharing university equipment outweighed by legal and financial hurdles, according to N8 research group

However, dean at Asian University for Women in Bangladesh says the number of female leaders on the continent is rising

New College forced to clarify that event for ‘old members’ at London gentlemen’s club is open to both sexes after dress code was described as ‘collared shirt and jacket’

New report indicates that more doesn’t always mean more equal

Sophie Cohen reports on a groundbreaking cross-border science project that aims to emulate Cern in bringing nations together despite their history 

41 per cent of prospective students less likely to come here post-referendum, survey suggests

Chair of independent review of research excellence framework also hopes to tackle 'game-playing'

New concordat should help researchers ‘deliver significant benefits for society’

Landmark review of the research excellence framework also recommends that university where research is done should be able to reap rewards

‘Too early’ to say if employer and employee contributions will have to be increased again, says chief executive

Bill Boulding of Fuqua School of Business says higher education must create a culture of public trust in academia through those they educate

Creator of crowdfunding teaching tool says entrepreneurship courses should drop the traditional business plan as a method of assessment

Westminster looks to new ways for students from 150 countries to explore their differences

Smaller, newer alternative providers are less likely to pass higher education review, analysis says

The grouping of subjects such as neuroscience and psychiatry with cheaper disciplines will lead to what critics say is a failure to fairly fund mental health research

De Montfort University is asking staff to record their lectures to help students with disabilities

Hepi report looks at New Zealand’s lessons for UK on overseas loan defaults and private expansion problems

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

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

The D-PLACE tool means anthropologists and historians can finally statistically test theories about what shapes human culture and society

Idea is mooted at EuroScience Open Forum but event is also warned that privileging researchers could be seen as ‘elitist’

Few academic department heads receive any formal leadership training when they step up into middle management, a study says

Former education secretary under Thatcher considers how his new work on book burning relates to current debate on censorship

Study finds that on average graduates in the country earn more than non-graduates 

Researchers have used an art competition to model what happens during peer review, and their work raises further questions over its effectiveness

Statement signed by 30 scholarly organisations condemns continued attack on academic freedom

Scholar says overseas outposts cannot compete with universities abroad without delivering a ‘superior’ service

New government is opening up to the wider world, but much remains to be done, says British Council country director

Call for universities to stamp out 'last acceptable' form of discrimination

V-c says presence on campus of Danish journalist who commissioned Muhammad cartoons could 'retard rather than advance academic freedom'. Elizabeth Redden reports

YouthSight poll also finds that nearly one in five student Brexit supporters would now change their vote

Unprecedented ’cleansing’ of academia may force many leading minds to leave the country, scholar warns

Presidents' associations issue statement in wake of Brexit vote

Three institutions agree to changes over fees, course costs and progression

Widening participation by the group ‘hugely held back’ by lack of agreed statistical category, conference hears

University College will also offer 'bridging programme' to help undergraduates develop academic skills

Recent attempts to get round US gun lobby’s blocking of federal funds for gun violence research could be making an impact. Jon Marcus reports

Thinktank proposes to fund Corbyn goal of scrapping fees by National Insurance education accounts

Liverpool’s Michael Dougan on ‘poisonous’ anti-expert rhetoric and the UK’s EEA deal chances

The Home Office has also released data showing experiments on animals across the country have broadly flatlined since 2013

Academics explore how the seemingly sedate game of housey-housey has attracted many different kinds of government intervention

Maximum fees raised in line with inflation for year one of teaching excellence framework

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

Scholars take an audience back to the movie nights of 50 years ago

Social science scholars are attempting to produce ‘impossible results’ due to demands from journal editors, finds study

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Hundreds of deans have been ordered to resign while academics have been told not to travel abroad for work in the wake of the failed coup

Unlike the rest of the EU budget, research funding disproportionately flows to rich members. But there are pressures for this to change

The ‘relatively modest’ research reputations of some senior US university leaders make their pay ‘grotesquely unmerited’, claims author of report

New education secretary praises moves to open up sector to new providers, but majority allowing bill to next stage is only 36

Lord Stern's warning adds to concerns about a brain drain from British universities in the wake of the referendum result

Greater financial uncertainty caused by the EU referendum result should lead to a rethink of proposed reforms, says Labour

Sector experts debate whether continental outposts would help to mitigate any decline in student recruitment