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By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

One of the UK’s oldest higher education institutions has moved a step closer to a potential merger with a Catholic university

The two main parties’ manifestos have a mismatch between rhetoric and commitment to investment in science and engineering, an analysis has suggested.

Employers have called on unions to “consider carefully the real value” of a 0.9 per cent pay offer for university employees.

Data also show improvement in staff to student ratio

The University of Salford has confirmed that Helen Marshall will remain as its vice-chancellor on a permanent basis.

The quality of school-led geography teacher training in England has been called into question by a new report.

About 40 per cent of university applicants might choose a different course if tuition fees were reduced to £6,000 a year, a new study suggests

A petition to “halt the rebranding of the University of Warwick” has attracted over 4,000 supporters.

Queen’s Belfast move suggests event could still go ahead, but confusion remains about why conference was cancelled

Soas, University of London, is to divest from fossil fuels within the next three years after the institution’s governing body today approved the decision.

An undergraduate taught by the recently dismissed University of Bolton lecturer Damien Markey has described how the decision has affected students.

Education election briefing also hears claims that coalition’s private colleges policy was ‘completely mad’

A university has launched what it claims is the UK’s first module in ‘drag studies’

Move angers universities, who say plan to take funds from research pot have yet to be approved by European Parliament

Films about female kinship and community are rare, precious exceptions to cinema’s enduring focus on groups of men, says Davina Quinlivan

Vice-chancellor talks to Chris Havergal about breaking free from Western constraints

Hong Bing examines plans for a Great Leap Forward in the sport

Daniel K. Sokol on student complaints, illness and the limits of scholars’ expertise

One of the most innovative archaeologists of his generation has died

Scottish National Party manifesto confirms party would support lower fees in England

We speak to the film, TV and theatre actor on taking an undergraduate degree in her forties at Brunel University London

Study reveals half of students skip over attribution and many have lenient views on punishment for cheats

As part of its #GenerationVote campaign, the National Union of Students asked Tory, Green, Lib Dem and Labour candidates about higher education policies

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz says that universities would lose hundreds of millions of pounds a year in EU funding

Benjamin Poore calls on universities to reject plans likely to make hourly paid lecturers’ lot poorer and more precarious

Queen’s v-c speaks out amid plans to axe 236 staff and reduce student numbers by more than 1,000

150 editors at Nature Publishing Group’s Scientific Reports to resign if the option to jump the publication queue becomes permanent

QAA to review AA Hamilton College after identifying ‘a number of significant weaknesses’

University of Sheffield project to leave 4,000 coasters in bars to gather data on public attitudes to politics and democracy

Carlos Moedas says gender and international diversity will yield gold

Extravagant claims for the right of scholars to say almost anything endanger support for the principle, says Martyn Hammersley

Awareness of the impact of lad culture and the specific behaviours associated with it needs to be increased, conference hears

Peter Horrocks, the Open University’s new v-c, highlights how the loss affects individuals and society

The Red Barn murder, organ donation and grave re-use were topics at an academic seminar

THE study determines average cost of creating a course for the FutureLearn platform

Nearing its half-century, the Science Policy Research Unit’s bold bid to find ‘radical solutions’ to global problems will cast the expertise net wide

Higher education figures interrogate the main parties on subjects from policy mistakes to part-time study

Head of Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business says that changing white male domination may require ‘something dramatic’

An academic and a graduate give their views on embedding employability into higher education courses

Mass lobby in Brussels for Horizon 2020 funding ‘draws line in the sand’ on cuts

Many academics suffer ‘email overload’, says one study, which also considers how to get a grip. Plus the latest higher education appointments

UCU claims two members may have been targeted for ‘role in union’

But Queen’s University Belfast says issue is not related to academic freedom and organisers failed to complete necessary risk assessment

Former vice-president promises to focus on tackling cost of living crisis

Peer review is a sacred cow that is ready to be slain, a former editor-in-chief of the British Medical Journal has said

By Kaitlin Mulhere, for Inside Higher Ed

Survey assesses the voting intentions of 13,000 students

The Scottish National Party has pledged to support Labour’s proposed reduction of tuition fees in England to £6,000.

The president of Imperial College London has spoken directly about the suicide of Stefan Grimm for the first time in public.

Plans by King’s to demolish historic buildings in a multimillion pound redevelopment of its Strand campus have been criticised by a conservation group

A private college paid almost £2 million a year in public student loans has been criticised by the Quality Assurance Agency, despite being cleared of academic fraud.

Staff at the University of Surrey may strike later this term over plans to axe up to 100 jobs.

Thousands of workers who built New York University’s campus in Abu Dhabi were excluded from the institution’s enhanced labour standards, an independent report says.

Sir Anthony Seldon has been named the new vice-chancellor of the University of Buckingham

Members of the University and College Union at the University of Dundee have voted to strike in protest at the threat of compulsory redundancies

Thirty-six Lib Dems in firing line, including Nick Clegg, plus two Tories

Universities awarding qualifications to those studying in the Caribbean must do more to monitor graduate employability