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Rise in average vice-chancellorial salary far outstrips 1 per cent pay offer to rank-and-file staff

New libel laws come into force today that aim to protect academics from the threat of legal action when writing peer-reviewed material in journals

International students could be hit by new healthcare charges for migrants in the UK.

A clutch of professors have been knighted while the former head of Loughborough University is among those made a dame in the New Year’s Honours.

A group of scientists remain trapped on a boat in the Antarctic after another attempt to rescue them stalled due to poor weather

Using “big data” to help match people to courses could cut freedom of choice and ultimately put students off higher education, an expert has warned.

A former NHS manager has been appointed as the new vice-chancellor of Nottingham Trent University.

From the advice you need (but rarely get) to pick the right PhD supervisor, to an extraordinary rant about the idiocy of the research excellence framework, we reveal our most-read stories of 2013

Hundreds of people have signed a petition nominating actor Peter Capaldi to be the new rector of the University of Glasgow.

A group of colleges at the University of Cambridge have collectively raised £150 million for capital projects through the private debt market.

Fewer sixth-form students want to attend a university near their home despite tuition fees rising to £9,000 a year, a new survey says.

Further education colleges are giving students a “unique” environment in which to undertake higher education, according to a new report.

An Indian private university has been given official backing by the Indian government for its off-shore campus in London.

Wearing of shirts depicting Prophet Mohammed and Jesus ‘did not amount to harassment’

‘Manhattan Project’ that some think could pave the way for variable fees proceeds with Nuffield funding

Research council hopes to claw back cash to fund centres that missed out during initial bidding process

UCU fears more support staff will be forced out to cover REF recruitment costs

Idea of borrowing to study is ‘totally alien’ to some students, so take-up may be low

Student leaders criticised over perceived failure to support grass-roots members joining in demonstrations

Expert points to lecturers’ low qualification levels

Publishing arm aims to disseminate research and ease budgetary pressures

Newcastle v-c gives international students the full flavour of a British Christmas

Reading v-c condemns Autumn Statement announcement as a purely political move

Participation widens, but questions may be asked over falling entry requirements

School Direct scheme diverts funding and input from university education departments

Border states a key battleground as the struggle for international income intensifies

Global competition prompts easing of curbs on commissions to student recruiters

The items shown here are all owned by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and are among the objects that appear in its online interactive 2013 seasonal calendar, with audio recordings and podcasts

Hepi head and HE analyst tell MPs that coalition sums don’t add up

Targets for financial support don’t know terminology, research finds

UK research is punching above its weight in impact terms, according to a report prepared by Elsevier for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

The European Commission has announced the new president of the European Research Council.

The government’s plan to finance extra student places by the future sale of student loans is like a Ponzi scheme, according to a thinktank.

It is “perfectly possible” to fund the government’s plan to abolish the student numbers cap by selling off graduate debt, David Willetts has claimed.

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The Treasury has funded a £15 million pilot project to establish three to four University Enterprise Zones in England.

A leading activist has called on the academic community to do far more “to help promote and defend human rights”.

Controversial passage removed pending review as prime minister intervenes

Nobel laureate Randy Schekman has pledged to stop publishing in “luxury journals”, which he believes contribute to the “disfigurement” of science.

Times Higher Education journalists have been honoured at a national awards ceremony.

The government’s plan to fund extra student numbers by selling loans omits billions of pounds in lost repayments, the chancellor has admitted.

Universities UK has published legal advice which backs its controversial guidance on the segregation of men and women at campus events.

The government’s claim it can fully fund extra student places by selling loans is “wrong”, according to the MP in charge of examining public accounts.

Judgment is a key development in student athletes’ bid to claim a cut of billion-dollar college sports

Engineering body fears impact of post-16 maths and English workload

Following student protests, government mulls a sector report calling for change. Cyrille Cartier writes

Matthew Reisz talks to the master of Oxford hall and ‘place of inter-religious encounter’

The European Union officially adopted Horizon 2020 on 3 December 2013

Industry and funders still back blue-skies thinking, doctoral conference hears

Judgment says university ‘inadequately investigated’ misconduct case

Academics and students unite in condemnation of ‘violent’ crackdown on sit-ins and demonstrations

Legislation a must after scrapping of student quotas