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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.

Staff at the University of Surrey may strike later this term over plans to axe up to 100 jobs.

Thousands of workers who built New York University’s campus in Abu Dhabi were excluded from the institution’s enhanced labour standards, an independent report says.

Sir Anthony Seldon has been named the new vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham

Members of the University and College Union at the University of Dundee have voted to strike in protest at the threat of compulsory redundancies

Thirty-six Lib Dems in firing line, including Nick Clegg, plus two Tories

The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Thursday 18 June

Publishers Elsevier and Wiley have each received about £2 million in article processing charges from 55 institutions as a result of RCUK's open access policy

Study finds union leadership to be unreflective of the students they represent, being still dominated by middle-class white men

THE FoI requests reveal use of recruiters by UK institutions to be highest among post-92s

Initial cohort of 20 funded researchers will receive tailored training and support to help stem leaks in the ‘pipeline’ to senior posts

‘Outdated’ policies at almost 20 per cent of universities make claims on student work, THE survey finds

Strategic barriers that lead to low female numbers in senior roles are a priority, says new chief

Scholar from Northumbria University created verbatim play to mark 20th anniversary using dialogue from a wide range of people

Hundreds of researchers sign letter warning of cost of focusing exclusively on business-led priorities

Procedural fluency key to effective STEM teaching, co-creator of top-ranking Mooc tells Chris Parr

Proposed Horizon 2020 changes could mean millions lost, says delegation

Private, entrepreneurial Bocconi University sets ambitious €120m fundraising target at glitzy global forum

Those studying at Arizona State and other universities are in demand as firms across the US seek fresh business insights, says Jon Marcus

Critics of the University of Warwick’s TeachHigher division also wary of UK-wide franchise

A Scottish institution aims to tackle obesity with products developed in a new food innovation centre

FoI request reveals UK institution’s legal costs in action that Vilnius University settled for £112,500

Universities awarding qualifications to those studying in the Caribbean must do more to monitor graduate employability

Tories talk of tougher visas and recognising top teaching. Labour alters funding plan for £6K fees. Greens promise to abolish fees

Washington releases ‘secret’ document naming hundreds of institutions under scrutiny

Universities in England are set to miss carbon emission reduction targets by half, a report has found

Nigel Farage’s party also pledges to bar EU students from accessing student loans

Spending public money on higher education resources that cannot be shared openly borders on being “immoral and unethical”, a conference has heard.

Party sets out stall – but avoids pledges on fees

Plans to axe 236 jobs and reduce student numbers by more than 1,000 have been announced by Queen’s University Belfast

Tougher student visa regime and more employment data for applicants also mooted

Manifesto says party would reintroduce block grant for universities

By Jake New, for Inside Higher Ed

Around 30 UK vice-chancellors have travelled to Brussels to lobby European policymakers against potential cuts to research funding.

Tax avoidance savings now part of measures to fund £3K fees cut

Acquisition of global jobs network marks further investment in “dynamic” higher education sector

Gordon McKenzie is latest to leave department

University pension costs rose slightly last year, but may increase significantly in 2016 as major reforms take effect, according to pension experts.

The University of the Arts London is taking legal action to evict students who have staged a three-week occupation of one of its art schools.

Students are planning to vote in huge numbers in the general election, according to a survey, despite many lacking faith that doing so will help improve their lives.

Postgraduate students at the University of Bradford claim they are being kicked out of their accommodation over the summer so rooms can be rented out to people attending a science festival.

Scotland’s universities have called on the Holyrood government to put on hold an overhaul of governance in the sector after the proposals met with significant resistance.

Labour would use £50 million from university access funds to guarantee face-to-face careers advice in schools.

Scotland’s universities have committed to achieving gender balance among the independent members of their governing bodies.

University may apply to lift stay on small claims court pursuit of graduate determined not to pay for ‘inadequate’ tuition

A new doctoral centre will examine Magna Carta’s influence in the digital age

Dominique Vernay, the institution’s president, talks to Jack Grove about why 19 French institutions are stronger as one

Academics face issues around privacy and identity in the digital world

About £7.6 billion worth of research and development was carried out in higher education in 2013

London institution to charge students £25,000 a year to study at Gozo institute

High-tech resources are yet to transform the nature of university learning, and often it is the ‘mundane’ use of technologies that aid study

High scores for campus universities in our annual poll

Writer and scholar Atef Abu Saif tells John Elmes how life goes on despite death from above

A hearing into the ‘needless’ death of a professor at Imperial College London has ruled that he took his own life by asphyxiating himself

Project Vox aims to illuminate key female thinkers absent from the discipline’s history

THE’s Best University Workplace Survey 2015 reveals concerns over class sizes and other issues in the wake of higher tuition fees