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Study suggests that students do not want to add more debt to personal finances

Megan Dunn sets out priorities as she defends the right to occupy

Academics at a British Academy event discuss the purpose of the history of political thought

The marks of private provider’s first cohort of graduates make Anthony Grayling feel more vindicated than ever

Young academics cite bullying, pressure to publish and casualisation as downsides of assessment exercise

Study finds inconsistencies in grading for borderline 2:1 and 2:2 essays

Journalists who set the news agenda have short attention spans. By helping them, researchers can help to get coverage for their work

The value of donations peaks at £807m, annual Ross/CASE survey finds, but challenges of limited outreach and elite domination persist

Commercial links are transparent, says sector body. Donna Bowater in Rio de Janeiro writes

Historians await legal judgment over heirs’ demands for payments from academics citing Joseph Goebbels’ diaries

Whoever wins or holds the balance of power, senior sector figures see risks ahead for higher education funding, fees and policy

Two trade unions are urging the University of Bolton to overturn its decision to dismiss two employees for allegedly leaking information to the press

A Scottish university broke the law when it let staff on fixed-term contracts go without consulting unions, the Supreme Court has ruled

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

One of the UK’s oldest higher education institutions has moved a step closer to a potential merger with a Catholic university

The two main parties’ manifestos have a mismatch between rhetoric and commitment to investment in science and engineering, an analysis has suggested.

Employers have called on unions to “consider carefully the real value” of a 0.9 per cent pay offer for university employees.

Data also show improvement in staff to student ratio

The University of Salford has confirmed that Helen Marshall will remain as its vice-chancellor on a permanent basis.

The quality of school-led geography teacher training in England has been called into question by a new report.

About 40 per cent of university applicants might choose a different course if tuition fees were reduced to £6,000 a year, a new study suggests

A petition to “halt the rebranding of the University of Warwick” has attracted over 4,000 supporters.

Queen’s Belfast move suggests event could still go ahead, but confusion remains about why conference was cancelled

Soas, University of London, is to divest from fossil fuels within the next three years after the institution’s governing body today approved the decision.

An undergraduate taught by the recently dismissed University of Bolton lecturer Damien Markey has described how the decision has affected students.

Education election briefing also hears claims that coalition’s private colleges policy was ‘completely mad’

A university has launched what it claims is the UK’s first module in ‘drag studies’

Move angers universities, who say plan to take funds from research pot have yet to be approved by European Parliament

Mass lobby in Brussels for Horizon 2020 funding ‘draws line in the sand’ on cuts

Many academics suffer ‘email overload’, says one study, which also considers how to get a grip. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Scottish National Party manifesto confirms party would support lower fees in England

Study reveals half of students skip over attribution and many have lenient views on punishment for cheats

Vice-chancellor talks to Chris Havergal about breaking free from Western constraints

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz says that universities would lose hundreds of millions of pounds a year in EU funding

Peter Horrocks, the Open University’s new v-c, highlights how the loss affects individuals and society

150 editors at Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports to resign if the option to jump the publication queue becomes permanent

THE study determines average cost of creating a course for the FutureLearn platform

Queen’s v-c speaks out amid plans to axe 236 staff and reduce student numbers by more than 1,000

University of Sheffield project to leave 4,000 coasters in bars to gather data on public attitudes to politics and democracy

QAA to review AA Hamilton College after identifying ‘a number of significant weaknesses’

Carlos Moedas says gender and international diversity will yield gold

Awareness of the impact of lad culture and the specific behaviours associated with it needs to be increased, conference hears

The Red Barn murder, organ donation and grave re-use were topics at an academic seminar

Nearing its half-century, the Science Policy Research Unit’s bold bid to find ‘radical solutions’ to global problems will cast the expertise net wide

Head of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business says that changing white male domination may require ‘something dramatic’

UCU claims two members may have been targeted for ‘role in union’

But Queen’s University Belfast says issue is not related to academic freedom and organisers failed to complete necessary risk assessment

Former vice-president promises to focus on tackling cost of living crisis

Peer review is a sacred cow that is ready to be slain, a former editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal has said

By Kaitlin Mulhere, for Inside Higher Ed

Survey assesses the voting intentions of 13,000 students

The Scottish National Party has pledged to support Labour’s proposed reduction of tuition fees in England to £6,000.

The president of Imperial College London has spoken directly about the suicide of Stefan Grimm for the first time in public.

Plans by King’s to demolish historic buildings in a multimillion pound redevelopment of its Strand campus have been criticised by a conservation group

A private college paid almost £2 million a year in public student loans has been criticised by the Quality Assurance Agency, despite being cleared of academic fraud.