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The US government is to develop a new system of ranking colleges and universities in a bid to ensure the “best value” institutions have access to the most federal funding.

Half of scientific papers published in 2011 can be accessed online for free, a new study has suggested. 

In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes.

The Russell Group has warned that private school pupils are more likely than state school counterparts to choose science and languages subjects at GCSE, which could give them an advantage in university entry.

In 1714, an Act of Parliament set a top prize of £20,000 (now worth about £1.5 million) for a method of determining a ship’s position east and west from a fixed meridian line

Wyn Ellis, who made a plagiarism claim against an official, has received menacing calls

Academics claim breach of data protection rules on Rate Your Lecturer website

Data show how much work conservation biologists do outside office hours

BIS study on graduate premium challenges research-intensive claims

Ability concerns at University of Exeter business school forces rethink on international intake

Global project explores the paucity of female leaders in academia

Smart thinking on efficiencies funnels cash to research

Higher education could face more cuts after next month’s polls, many fear

Computer science students face the highest rates of graduate unemployment, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show

Allowing scientists to profit from their research would encourage entrepreneurship, says Institute of Cancer Research chairman Luke Johnson

Critics say universities are ‘not playing fair’

High fees prove no object to demand, but student standards may invite scrutiny

University of East London asks Sir David Melville to investigate international activities

Undergraduates ‘reproduce social inequality’, paper argues

Home Office bid would set huge hurdles for overseas students seeking private rentals, warns UKCISA

Student numbers at private higher education institutions will be capped from 2014-15, the government has confirmed, while private providers will also be granted unlimited recruitment of high-grade students.

The University and College Union is among those invited to a Labour Party summit to discuss the controversial issue of zero-hours contracts.

Police have named the woman whose body was found in a lake at the University of East Anglia.

Nearly half of all university finance directors believe now is a good time to be taking “greater risk” onto their balance sheets, according to a survey by consultants Deloitte.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

More divorced mothers are seeking legal advice about whether ex-husbands can extend support payments for children at university, a law firm has said.

Work between the UK research councils, Indian government and business can be improved by fixing practical barriers to collaboration, a report says.

A new government-commissioned study says a degree will earn graduates an extra £252,000 over their lifetime for women and £168,000 for men.

The upturn in students accepted into university this year could disguise big falls at some institutions, a vice-chancellor has warned.

The number of students accepted on to university courses is up 9 per cent despite a fall in the number of top grades awarded at A level.

Eastern institutions slow to make inroads into Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities table

Not all institutions have clear rules on international students employing translators and other help

Early results show 40% of respondents feel ignored

Educators cannot assume that all young people are old hands online, research shows

Dean of medical school who was cleared of misconduct quits after restructure

Olive Tree Programme offers ‘special space’ for cohort drawn from both sides of conflict zone

The growing competition for UK universities from new types of education providers has been highlighted in a report from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Institutions consider a ‘range of strategies’ to win favourable scores from students

Students should not be turned into consumers, sector expert Jürgen Enders tells David Matthews

Oxford and Cambridge agreement could amount to breach of competition law, say experts

Academy risks research future by failing to give credit where it’s due

But data show that grades in each subject may be rather more equal

UEL body plans research into attainment and staffing gap

Home Office ‘looking into’ partnership between Glyndwr University and London School of Business and Finance

Ceramic cabbages, knitted cauliflowers and caterpillars, birds made of stone and metal, dancing daffodils, even a hive of porcelain bees: all formed part of the allotment created by the Manchester School of Art for the Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show at Tatton Park in Cheshire last month

Students who apply to university after receiving their A-level results are almost twice as likely to be dissatisfied with their course, a survey says.

Pearson College, the institution owned by the education giant Pearson, is to offer business degrees validated by Ashridge Business School.

The first courses on the UK’s first massive open online course platform Futurelearn will be unveiled in mid-September, it has been announced.

Australia is the most expensive place in the world to study for international students, followed by the United States and the UK, says new research.

The Catapult network of technology and innovation centres will see a “significant expansion”, the government has announced.

Undergraduates at the University of Bath are the most satisfied students in the UK, according to the latest National Student Survey.

The private, not-for-profit ifs School of Finance has been granted university college status by the government.