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Flemish government proposes rise despite student protests

With less than seven months left until the general election, eyes are turning towards the impact that university students may have on the outcome.

The University of Birmingham has become the first institution in Europe to partner with the US publisher Wiley to develop online master’s courses

University applicants still rely heavily on parental advice when picking their course, a new survey says.

A one-day conference has explored how to overcome the challenges faced by women in academic medicine

Co-ordinated approach the only way out of policy mess, conference to hear

Welsh government ministers have offered reassurance over academic freedom as new powers for the country’s university funding council are debated

Paper by academics calls for greater transparency

Recruitment is under way for Yachay University, a new campus that the country hopes will usher in a research and innovation culture

The UK risks losing the global race to exploit the thinnest material on the planet, warns university leader

Alan Ruby reflects on an unscripted display of the differences between national research communities

An academic and greatly respected poet who spent more than 35 years in the School of History at Queen’s University Belfast has died

The art of making firm friends starts with making it easy for companies to say ‘yes’ to your approaches, say insiders. Plus the latest higher education appointments

We speak to the president of Birkbeck, University of London on part-time study, older learners, Barack Obama and tuition fees

The thinking person’s festival of culture in the capital offers Londoners a variety of delights and insights into the city around them

Ahead of the annual Battle of Ideas Festival, we asked you to tell us what you think is missing from the country-wide canvassing of university student views

Warwick staff concerned about ‘single cash metric’ used to identify redundancies in life sciences

V-c hires law firm amid suggestions the case against her includes a complaint about her management style

The territory’s young people have bravely asked the question that its universities have ducked, observes Bruce Macfarlane

Party policy is to remove non-European Union students from the UK’s net targets

Martin McQuillan takes a whistle-stop tour of the Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat events

A group of medical charities spent more on health research last year than two government funding bodies, according to a report

Liam Byrne, the shadow universities minister, also urges the sector to speak out to prevent a ‘disastrous’ exit from the European Union

Scottish government wants immigration powers devolved to Holyrood

Iran shaped the career of Annabelle Sreberny, professor of global media and communications at Soas, but doing research there remains difficult

Senior professors express ‘outrage’ at Glasgow’s decision to reduce investment

Why keep on assessing how students feel? asks Joanna Williams

University of Leeds musicologist heads a team in receipt of a £1.5 million grant to recover pre-war artworks

Swiss-French scientist says he just wants to have fun

Institution incentivises students to learn their native tongue as it delivers dual language courses

Hefce’s decision to invite external bodies to bid for work undertaken by the higher education watchdog carries risks, warns Peter Williams

The UK’s draft Modern Slavery Bill is insufficient, sociologist Margaret Archer argues

Oxford criticises figures given to universities illustrating the impact of future cuts amid calls for independent modelling

Realising Opportunities project helps aspiring undergraduates from poor areas gain places at elite research institutions

Scholarship can be a fearsome activity, as Chris Walsh discovered when he set out to investigate the figure of the coward

Hard times for state-funded institutions require forceful restatement of their benefits to society, Simon Marginson says in Clark Kerr Lecture

Apprentice interviewer Claude Littner offers UK business schools advice on balancing the practical and the theoretical

Universities should encourage graduates to stay in the city where they studied by helping them to find jobs and housing, a report recommends.

Simon Nelson tells Times Higher Education podcast original claims were ‘overhyped and unrealistic’

Universities have suffered a cut in initial teacher training (ITT) places as the government continues to expand its Schools Direct policy

April McMahon blames ‘years of underinvestment’ for tumbling league table positions

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

David Willetts, the former universities minister, ranks among “34 leading social scientists” awarded fellowship status by the Academy of Social Sciences

Education lawyer Smita Jamdar on the danger of piecemeal change to the regulatory regime

Video pitches from the 17 PhD students from around the world who have made it to the final of a competition that challenges them to present their research in three minutes

Universities have set out their plans to reform the sector’s largest pension scheme.

A French academic has won the Nobel Prize for economics for his work on market power and regulation

Which were the most-read Times Higher Education stories of last month? Well, it’s funny you should ask…

Private not-for-profits don’t deserve to be tarred with the same brush as some Johnny-come-latelys, says Phil Deans

Four PhD students from UK universities have made it to the final of a competition that challenges them to present their research in three minutes

A new approach to teaching economics being piloted at eight leading universities has been criticised by campaigners

Labour’s Chuka Umunna wants to “hold universities’ feet to the fire” on the “unacceptable lack of diversity in their leadership and their senior staff”

Nearly two-thirds of higher education staff say their work performance has suffered as a result of mental health problems, according to a survey

Shadow education secretary tells conference of party’s ‘direction of travel’ ahead of 2016 elections

Vince Cable is announcing a new set of measures designed to stem the fall in Indian students choosing to study in the UK

University College London has apologised after its email system was hacked, leaving students with thousands of spam emails in their inboxes.