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Overseas students beat UK peers’ tariff scores on many courses, analysis suggests

Research and publication is by far the most important factor in career advancement, according to a survey of academics

Leader sought to guide Hefce through period of upheaval

Essex scholar raises fears over peer review integrity

Survey finds median wages and employment rates are holding steady

University of London college targets graduate employability and research cash

Germany ensures degrees of highly skilled migrants are recognised. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports

Growth in university enterprise societies marks a change

Victorian ‘penny dreadfuls’ offer priceless insights into social history

John Elmes investigates the growth in university-sponsored academies

Fossil Free urges universities to dump holdings in fuel companies

Proposed rules on designation call for ‘robust’ quality and finance checks

Cut on cards as union looks to live within its means

Critic says Nature Materials is breaking its own rules

Chinese student at Bath convicted on bribery, firearms charges

UK settlement not on agenda for most, poll shows

The latest round of job cuts at the University of Salford could see up to 87 professional service staff made redundant, with the institution blaming a fall in student numbers under the new system.

Universities are to benefit from a reduced administrative burden in supplying information about their costs, but government pressure to give more of such data to students has met with a cool response.

The University of Manchester has equalled the record for University Challenge wins after beating University College London in last night’s final

The first pan-European massive open online course initiative has been launched by the European Association of Distance Teaching Universities.

Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

A celebration of the life and influence of legendary historian Eric Hobsbawm, who died last October at the age of 95, brought out family, friends and fellow scholars in force at Birkbeck, University of London this week.

Fewer than ten graduates each from Black Caribbean and Bangladeshi minority groups make the transition to a research degree each academic year, a study has found.

Jon Marcus reports on how one of the global capitals of higher education rose to the challenge posed by terror

Robert Gordon head critiques traditional rationale for scholarly activity

A BBC scheme aims to tackle gender inequality

Research paints picture of permanent revolution in sector since mid-1990s

Australian approach offers lessons for UK, forum hears

Thinktank calls on federal government to level the playing field

Starting university-level study in secondary school pays financial and academic dividends, writes Jon Marcus

The Times Higher Education Student Experience Survey 2013 shows a responsive attitude and landmark infrastructure projects help to create contentment. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Existing legislation fails to cover Student Loans Company cash

Numbers treble after change in funding requirements

Informal group admits reform will require more work than previously thought

New ‘ambassador’ aims to improve access to elite institutions

The rest of the world thinks so, says Hefce funding chief

Union takes on management over ‘academic annex’ reforms

Brian Cantor, the vice-chancellor of York University, is to take charge of the University of Bradford as his next post.

A bill to reform the libel system in England and Wales is set to become law after completing its passage through the Houses of Parliament.

The proportion of young people accessing higher education hit a record high of 49 per cent as students scrambled to avoid last year’s tuition fee hikes, a new study says.

The University of Oxford professor of tropical medicine and global health has been named as the new director of the Wellcome Trust.

University staff have been offered a 0.5 per cent pay increase for the next academic year – far below unions’ claims for a salary rise in excess of 3 per cent.

The chief executive of the Scottish Funding Council is to leave his position to join a university, a matter of weeks after a similar move by the head of the English funding council.

The Duke of Westminster has been revealed as the country’s richest university chancellor in a list of the UK’s wealthiest people.

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed

The University of Central Lancashire is shelving plans to switch to private company status, potentially dealing a blow to other post-1992 universities’ hopes of making the move and opening up to commercial investment.

Academic opposition to outsourcing at the University of Sussex is building, with staff from ten schools, departments and research centres publishing statements supporting protests at the institution.

Ensuring that knowledge translates into growth will be among the priorities the incoming government chief scientific adviser Mark Walport has set himself for the next five years.

Students at the London School of Economics who were on a controversial visit to North Korea with undercover BBC journalists have hit out at the university, saying it has placed them in greater danger than the trip itself.

School pupils from poorer backgrounds could be contacted by the government to nudge them towards applying to university if they get good GCSE grades, David Willetts has said.

Wales’ institutions gain funds as a result of cross-border flow under new fees regime