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UK parent institutions face questions over their procedures and monitoring of capital operations

The bookseller is taking on upstart competitors at their own game, says its digital director

Hefce-commissioned report recommends adjusting questions to counter fears that survey is being filled in ‘without sufficient thought’

Paper reveals that university principals worry more about a common research area than English ‘fee refugees’

The vice-chancellor of Plymouth University has been “placed on leave” by the institution’s board of governors.

The Institute of Physics has announced the winners of its annual awards in the discipline

A Labour government should set a science and research budget for the entire Parliament, and give universities a bigger role in driving local growth.

Women are greatly underrepresented in the laboratories of the highest-achieving male biology professors in the US, a study has revealed.

Milburn blames ‘secondary school maze’ for missing 2,000

Eight out of 10 prospective Tory MPs think the government should not target international students in the drive to reduce net migration.

Delegates at California convention produce framework on use of personal information

A UK university-business incubator has been voted the best in Europe.

LSBF says many of its students do have the right to work

Ruth Farwell has announced she is to retire as vice-chancellor of Bucks New University early next year

Richard Lloyd to call for universities to be judged on graduate employment

The proportion of graduates in high-skilled employment has fallen since 2008, according to an analysis of Labour Force Survey data

Body has impressed rank and file but must convince institution heads of the impact and value of its work, says report

Union claims that meetings to assess pay rises spend less than a minute per professor on average

Finding at Queen’s University Belfast follows criticism of pro vice-chancellor for citing an unpublished work

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills signals that it may remove sub-degree qualifications from the higher education budget

Lebanon is failing to enable displaced scholars and students to continue their work and education, says report

Vice-director Anne Mills talks about the growing field of health economics

Anti-plagiarism policies - where they exist - are still not working

Lecturer Kelly Holmes’ short film is competing in the Viewster Online Film Festival for the £41,000 prize

Higher Education Academy ‘helps and makes people evaluate their teaching’, says landmark fellow Shelly Kemp. Plus the latest higher education appointments

David Matthews finds government is excluding signalling in its calculations on a degree’s worth

Expectations of fast track to graduate-level job are overoptimistic, suggests report

Institutions still ‘lag well behind’ US counterparts, which are piling on funds

Spiralling costs and frozen domestic income mean that some universities will be ‘completely stuffed’ within three years, claims Anglia Ruskin leader

University Alliance says repayment period of 15 years under HELP UK system could plug black hole in funding system

Government aims to train 60,000 students at postgraduate level over next nine years

Fears of further reputational damage after licence suspensions

University still pays rent and maintenance costs for Ladbroke House and is stuck in lease until 2016

Welfare and gun checks are part of the shield against campus violence

Staff at King’s College London are set to take industrial action over planned redundancies in three health schools

Students have forgotten more than half of what they learned in their A levels by their first week of university, a new study says

Announcement follows immigration minister’s statement on student visa crackdown

Universities of West London and Bedfordshire also told they cannot sponsor new international students

Labour will use a long-term plan for research funding to help create high-wage jobs, ending “uncertainty” in science policy created by the coalition.

Universities are “overshadowed” by research and teaching methods dating back hundreds of years, stifling innovation, a conference has heard.

By Charlie Tyson, for Inside Higher Ed

The principal and vice-chancellor of Heriot-Watt University has announced he is leaving his post to take the helm of an Australian university.

The value of outstanding student loans owed by graduates will rise to £330 billion in the 2040s

The “Oxbridge Ambassador for Wales” has recommended partnerships among schools to increase the number of Welsh pupils going to Oxford and Cambridge.

Survey reveals best and worst UK universities for electric vehicle ownership

Open letter over plan to shut East Grinstead regional centre and review others

A woman stabbed to death in Essex has been identified as a Saudi Arabian student who was taking an English language course at the county’s university.

An adviser to David Cameron has urged the government to rank universities’ courses based on their employment rates and graduate earnings.

James MacAskill, principal of the private college, says suspension is down to a ‘misunderstanding’ by the Home Office

SLC discusses whether students are genuine and attending classes despite confusion over who should investigate

Collection could be broken up in legal action over 1944 deed of trust

Vice-chancellor claims that removing the cap on fees and subsidising poorer students would work but is a ‘toxic issue politically’

User data for initial online offerings show that 13% of those who sign up finish their courses

Suspended professor prevented from speaking at conference

Sir Roderick Floud, former UUK president, criticises duplication and waste in ‘muddled non-system’