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By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed

The number of international students in US higher education has reached an all-time high according to an authoritative report

A university threatened staff that it would dock them a day’s pay if they did not work unpaid overtime, it has emerged.

The 1994 Group of small research-intensive universities has decided to disband 19 years after being set up.

The president of South Korea has visited Imperial College London to mark a series of agreements between the institution and Korean universities.

The new EU-funded ranking system has secured involvement from around 600 institutions and will see users choose their own indicators.

Preliminary findings of major study revealed

In Cara lecture, Iraqi-born physicist calls for revival of region’s thirst for knowledge

Reading v-c finds government attitudes ‘puzzling and troubling’

Pair aim to offer English language support in war-torn areas

IFS: places, grants or remaining direct funding will have to be cut

Privatisation of debt dubbed a ‘silly idea’ by critics

Despite government optimism over UK’s future role, university provision remains limited, forum hears

2013-14 figures assuage fears of course closures

New rector Jörg Monar discusses the unique institution’s mission and challenges

Sport’s on-campus growth reflects rising number of overseas students in country

Bill Galvin optimistic about future despite massive deficit

Students work with female prisoners on The Beauty’s Inside project

International Programmes analysis points to courses’ marketing benefits

Only threat of further strikes will force Ucea to renegotiate pay, unions say

Inflation means ‘something has to give’, leader tells Times Higher Education podcast

Report calls for overarching body to fill gaps in national ‘framework’

Birmingham receives £15 million from former student

The University of Oxford has named a new building after the late Baroness Thatcher

UK researchers should be permitted to publish in top international journals even if those journals are not compliant with open-access mandates.

The government has been accused of preventing a “timely and legitimate analysis” of data on next year’s teacher training places.

Edinburgh University Press has bought Dundee University Press for an undisclosed sum.

Research council reveals details of its scheme for PhD provision

The accuracy of predicted A-level grades may be much worse than feared, research suggests.

A course designed to prepare students for their time at university is among nine new offerings from massive open online course provider FutureLearn

Times Higher Education is to publish the world’s first global ranking of universities in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and other emerging economies

Engineering departments bidding for £200 million of new capital funds for teaching should only be eligible if they are signed up to Athena SWAN

Universities in the UK produce the second highest number of millionaires in the world after the US, according to a new league table from Spear’s magazine and WealthInsight

About 12,500 staff are paid less than the Living Wage at UK universities, new research suggests

Donations to universities in the UK are even more skewed towards the elite than in the US, according to a new report

People who attend university are less likely to commit crime, drink heavily or smoke, according to a new database of evidence on the social benefits of higher education

Soas, University of London has been awarded a £20 million gift, the largest in its history, by a US foundation

The number of teaching training places allocated to universities by Michael Gove’s department has fallen by 14.5 per cent

Noisy protests on pickets lines, cancelled classes and student occupations have been seen at universities across the country as trade unions mounted a one-day strike over pay.

The capital element of the science budget should be ring fenced to avoid the peril of “announcement-based politics”, according to Labour’s new shadow minister for the sector.

Twitter was awash with picket line updates from the higher education strike - here is a selection

Strike rallies will take place across the UK today during a one-day walkout by university staff over pay, with some universities already cancelling classes

Canada branch of London School of Business and Finance labelled an ‘unlicensed private career college’ and told to halt teaching

Multibillion-pound funding gap may leave staff footing the bill

Reassurance and concerns stated over new framework’s requirements

‘Seriously flawed’ decision broke university regulations, QAA finds

Scholar hopes his ‘surreal’ action will show that excluded colleagues were ‘discriminated’ against

But extant strategic decisions will not be revisited, Paul Golby says

Academic denied permission to start new job until after REF deadline

Fellowship will be extended if scholar attracts sufficient money from the public

The “crucial moment” in post-war higher education was not the Robbins report but the creation of a central university admissions system because it enshrined the idea of student choice, David Willetts has argued

Social class ‘still biggest predictor of university attendance post-Robbins report’, conferences hear

Time is a harsh mistress but there’s much to look forward to, says the doyenne of the Left

Intellectual ‘flash mob’ meets in Westminster Cathedral crypt to debate the nature of Hell