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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

Staff at King’s College London are set to take industrial action over planned redundancies in three health schools

Students have forgotten more than half of what they learned in their A levels by their first week of university, a new study says

Announcement follows immigration minister’s statement on student visa crackdown

Universities of West London and Bedfordshire also told they cannot sponsor new international students

Labour will use a long-term plan for research funding to help create high-wage jobs, ending “uncertainty” in science policy created by the coalition.

Universities are “overshadowed” by research and teaching methods dating back hundreds of years, stifling innovation, a conference has heard.

By Charlie Tyson, for Inside Higher Ed

The principal and vice-chancellor of Heriot-Watt University has announced he is leaving his post to take the helm of an Australian university.

The value of outstanding student loans owed by graduates will rise to £330 billion in the 2040s

The “Oxbridge Ambassador for Wales” has recommended partnerships among schools to increase the number of Welsh pupils going to Oxford and Cambridge.

Survey reveals best and worst UK universities for electric vehicle ownership

Open letter over plan to shut East Grinstead regional centre and review others

A woman stabbed to death in Essex has been identified as a Saudi Arabian student who was taking an English language course at the county’s university.

An adviser to David Cameron has urged the government to rank universities’ courses based on their employment rates and graduate earnings.

Suspended professor prevented from speaking at conference

David Mould on fine-tuning the work of a global group of novice researchers

One of the leading Australian philosophers of his generation has died

Sir Roderick Floud, former UUK president, criticises duplication and waste in ‘muddled non-system’

We speak to the director of the UK Higher Education International Unit

Nick Hillman on plans to use the powers to sort good universities from bad

Dame Judith Rees, former LSE interim director, warns of problems as students’ awareness of value increases

Report points to prevalence of plagiarism and low awareness of academic integrity and referencing conventions

‘Captain Cyborg’ Kevin Warwick on how a new research focus and 200 extra staff can help the institution rise up the rankings

Fears that Beijing’s ‘red zone of forbidden knowledge’ is spreading in the wake of partnerships

Jon Marcus reports on the Chicago institutions battling it out for the Barack Obama presidential library and museum

Japan is still the number one nation but the balance of power is shifting as Beijing increases research funding

Teachers can reveal the history of domestic terrorism and address its impact, says Lee Maril

Collection could be broken up in legal action over 1944 deed of trust

Lecturer Ann Rogerson on the telltale signs of the ghostwriter’s presence. Plus the latest higher education appointments

User data for initial online offerings show that 13% of those who sign up finish their courses

The UK and other European countries are underinvesting in research and development, according to a report from the European Commission

Sea monsters are inspiring new critical theory and can even be a useful tool in the seminar room, says Roger Luckhurst

James MacAskill, principal of the private college, says suspension is down to a ‘misunderstanding’ by the Home Office

Peter Brook’s play about synaesthesia delights Matthew Reisz with its blend of philosophical themes and Shakespearean comedy

Cardiff University’s CAER Heritage Project announced as overall winner for engagement with the public

Journal’s editors withdraw threat to resign after publisher apologises for obstructing report critical of industry practices

SLC discusses whether students are genuine and attending classes despite confusion over who should investigate

The power of immersive research, and what it is like to be an academic who spends months at sea

A raft of short-sighted policies are causing harm, says Sir Roderick Floud

Vice-chancellor claims that removing the cap on fees and subsidising poorer students would work but is a ‘toxic issue politically’

The University of East Anglia scooped the top prize last night at the Times Higher Education Leadership and Management Awards 2014

A group of students has delivered a petition to Universities UK calling for the sector to stop investing in fossil fuels.

Scottish universities have created a new body to promote themselves to the rest of the world separately from institutions in the rest of the UK

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

‘Brightest and best future’ for HE in Scotland ‘is to remain in the UK’, they say