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Doubts now raised over future of project billed as having potential to shake up hierarchy of world higher education

Eighty-five per cent of independent school leavers go into higher education, compared with 66 per cent of state school pupils

Alison Hayman says that she is ‘not incapable’ and her treatment was ‘unjust’

Future of Welsh sector's oversight to come under examination, education minister Huw Lewis announces

Interim vice-chancellor Graham Upton reveals plan to turn around Welsh university

REF case studies used to create a map of knowledge connections between fields

Just 13 per cent of open call applications to social science funder were successful in 2014-15

Proposals amount to 41 per cent increase in minimum salary threshold for new researchers to gain visa, Universities UK and Russell Group warn

University and College Union says proposals could mean a third of Wolverhampton's research professors lose their jobs

Report calls for desired graduate skill set in the field to be ‘clearly set out’

More than one in five employers tell annual CBI/Pearson survey that they have provided remedial support

German court decision both ‘shocking’ and a threat to historical research

Accountability review finds cost of assessment equates to 2.4 per cent of funding bodies’ expected spend over next six years

Moocs and capacity-building projects with partners in developing countries are also expected to expand, a European University Association report finds

‘Anecdotal evidence has little value’, professor tells UK Council for International Student Affairs conference

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and physicist Brian Cox highlighted as positive role models

Hefce expert says that funding excellence can go hand in hand with focussing resources on particular locations

Changes to degree-awarding powers that will step up competition for universities heralded in Productivity Plan

But university governing body says it recognises ‘distress’ caused to Nobel laureate and his UCL scientist wife by his dismissal

Business secretary answers ‘no’ when asked if non-EU students should be allowed to stay on for work post-graduation

University of Wisconsin-Madison academic says disciplines, despite initial stumbles, might be better suited than some think

Figures quoted in Brazilian media suggest US universities may still be waiting for funds for taking students. Donna Bowater reports from Brazil

The Sutton Trust has funded degree study at US institutions for 58 pupils from low-income backgrounds 

Hefce head of research policy suggests the way research is conducted should be measured too

Consultant gynaecologist and Imperial College London professor Jenny Higham takes over at South London institution

Members include experienced higher education campaigner Paul Blomfield and medical doctor Tania Mathias

The most selective institutions fare best as student number controls lifted

Campaigners say suitable fossil-free investment funds should be available within a year

Sir Hilary Beckles tells Ellie Bothwell about his plans for the University of the West Indies’ future

Perception that time should be spent improving research prowess

Higher education news from around the globe

Research councils spend just £11 per person on R&D in Northern Ireland, almost seven times less than the spend per person in London, new figures suggest

New research grant data show Britain continuing to lead the league

Goals set for most academic posts across the institutions’ three faculties

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

US academic urges sector to make doctoral students’ experience ‘more human’

Green encyclical ups pressure on Catholic universities to show moral leadership on climate change. Will more make an ethical shift?

Head says changes that could lead to 60 redundancies will allow medical school to focus on strengths without harming Welsh healthcare

Cambridge historian warns universities against ‘crying wolf’ and insists that enrolments have mushroomed in the UK and US over the past 50 years

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Times Higher Education creates a top 15 table for Africa’s academies ahead of the inaugural THE Africa Universities Summit on 30-31 July

Strong research result in the REF ‘triggered’ exit from the mission group

Symposium speakers, including activist David Graeber, examine the real function of bureaucracy and how the academy can fight back

UK higher education round-up and highlights from the Twittersphere

Even centuries ago, student misconduct and violence vexed townspeople and authorities. The behaviour, says one scholar, highlights negative stereotypes and socio-political tensions

Debate may also consider efficacy of running new framework in tandem with REF

Troops to Teachers programme allows veterans to turn swords into whiteboards

Tony Little points to ‘increasing gap’ between teaching standards at sixth form and university

A study of European research output reveals the prolificacy of an elite group of scholars. Chris Havergal discovers their characteristics

HEA proposals aim to address ‘cosy’ relationships and quality assurance processes

Chancellor George Osborne also announces scrapping of student maintenance grants and plans to make graduates pay more for loans through repayment threshold freeze

Author Jeanette Winterson among 96 signatories of letter to board of governors

Republican presidential hopeful wants radical reform of university system

Two unions reject 1 per cent offer, but Unison and GMB get behind it

Supreme Court to consider whether educators are obliged to pay union fees

HEA-commissioned report says those with vocational background may need more support, but also warns against seeing such qualifications as inferior

Robert Brownstone will take up the role of chair of neurosurgery at University College London

Next director of Soas says UK higher education can learn much from across the Atlantic

Many part-time students forced to miss part of their course, HEA survey finds

Government reductions could leave universities to fund most help for disabled students