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A string of universities sponsoring school academies have been told to raise their games in light of poor standards. 

Princess Anne to open new neuroscience building as staff take action over job cuts

Graduate employment rates have risen for a second successive year, but are still yet to reach pre-recession levels, new figures show.

A London university has become the first in the UK to allow a student to sit on the panel that decides vice-chancellors’ pay, a union has said.

Imperial College London broke animal welfare rules “on an unacceptable scale”, creating an “unacceptable risk” of “appreciable” harm to animals.

Mark Pegg is to step down as chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education this month, it has been announced.

New workstreams, fewer events and push to attract subscribers could help organisation to achieve self-sufficiency, chief says

Survey of university chiefs reveals smouldering anger and ‘black swan’ event predictions

Leeds v-c and former Hefce head Sir Alan Langlands ‘worried’ by George Osborne’s comments on science in the North

Overseas students boost universities’ global links and bolster image with employers, European University Association conference told

Dorothy Bishop on the senseless purge at the Institute of Psychiatry

Part-time lecturer settles out of court over claims that he was paid a lower rate compared with full-time colleagues

A $1 billion buyout of a UK biotech firm netted founder David S. Latchman just $709. He offers advice on seeking investors

At a British Academy debate, David Sweeney urges the sector to focus on producing graduates who will engage with society

What happens to scholars’ papers and unfinished works when they die? Matthew Reisz on the guardian’s dilemma

Vice-chancellor April McMahon is planning upgraded campus facilities

Paper reveals that university principals worry more about a common research area than English ‘fee refugees’

Digital literacy can enhance humanities research as well as the skill set of graduates

Foreign students in the UK need fluency, not just a certificate, says Karen Harris

Matthew Reisz talks to Annabel Tremlett, an academic whose work challenges common perceptions of Romani life

Collaborating with the arts sector is beneficial and not only for universities’ REF impact scores. Plus the latest higher education appointments

The bookseller is taking on upstart competitors at their own game, says its digital director

Academics have ultimate responsibility for the ethics of their project, says Ron Iphofen

The Cinema of Childhood, a touring festival, spurs Davina Quinlivan to reflect on screen representations of bodies in flux

What might be done to support higher education systems in regions that are not recognised as states? asks Anne Corbett

Warwick sociologist urges scholars to let go of their ‘sense of injury’ if they want to resist marketisation

A physicist who played a central role in developing the theory of supersymmetry – often known as SUSY – has died

UK parent institutions face questions over their procedures and monitoring of capital operations

We speak to the new chair to the advisory board of the Institute for Policy Research at the University of Bath

Hefce-commissioned report recommends adjusting questions to counter fears that survey is being filled in ‘without sufficient thought’

The vice-chancellor of Plymouth University has been “placed on leave” by the institution’s board of governors.

The Institute of Physics has announced the winners of its annual awards in the discipline

A Labour government should set a science and research budget for the entire Parliament, and give universities a bigger role in driving local growth.

Women are greatly underrepresented in the laboratories of the highest-achieving male biology professors in the US, a study has revealed.

Milburn blames ‘secondary school maze’ for missing 2,000

Eight out of 10 prospective Tory MPs think the government should not target international students in the drive to reduce net migration.

Delegates at California convention produce framework on use of personal information

A UK university-business incubator has been voted the best in Europe.

LSBF says many of its students do have the right to work

Ruth Farwell has announced she is to retire as vice-chancellor of Bucks New University early next year

Richard Lloyd to call for universities to be judged on graduate employment

Lecturer Kelly Holmes’ short film is competing in the Viewster Online Film Festival for the £41,000 prize

University still pays rent and maintenance costs for Ladbroke House and is stuck in lease until 2016

Higher Education Academy ‘helps and makes people evaluate their teaching’, says landmark fellow Shelly Kemp. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Six academics share their experiences of university life overseas

A. W. Purdue on the battles among academics over the conflict’s place in history

Warmth and compassion override the wretchedness in an authentic portrayal of illegal immigrants trying to enter the US, says Philip Kemp

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills signals that it may remove sub-degree qualifications from the higher education budget

The second vice-chancellor of the University of Surrey, who steered his institution through the upheavals of the 1980s, has died

David Matthews finds government is excluding signalling in its calculations on a degree’s worth

We speak to professor of meteorology at the University of Reading and chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London

Expectations of fast track to graduate-level job are overoptimistic, suggests report

Institutions still ‘lag well behind’ US counterparts, which are piling on funds

The proportion of graduates in high-skilled employment has fallen since 2008, according to an analysis of Labour Force Survey data

Mary Curnock Cook on what reform in England could mean for admissions

Body has impressed rank and file but must convince institution heads of the impact and value of its work, says report