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Human rights invoked in guaranteeing female-free seminars

Food, feminism and assumptions about asylum seekers among areas explored in eight AHRC-backed projects

Cost-conscious institution rejects publisher’s ‘big deal’ on more than 1,000 journals

Long hours, job insecurity and need for mentoring noted in global survey of young scientists

Milton and Alex Mermikides’ AHRC-funded work fuses music, dance and medicine

Paul Gibbons says lack of time, money and legal clarity can all affect universities’ responses to FoI Act requests

A new interactive website has been launched to provide the definitive resource for studying the great 17^th-century poet and playwright Ben Jonson

Economic and Social Research Council chief executive Paul Boyle has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester

A former psychiatric nurse who is now a lecturer in creative writing has been awarded the Costa Book of the Year award for his debut novel.

Scotland’s universities are being damaged by a Westminster immigration policy that is “driven by Ukip and a nasty xenophobia”

Fraunhofer UK plans to create up to four research centres in its first five years, according to the head of the country’s first centre in Glasgow

University staff have taken part in a second two-hour strike over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer

The budget for universities in Scotland will remain almost exactly the same in cash terms in 2014-15, the Scottish Funding Council has confirmed

The number of Americans taking full undergraduate degrees in the UK has risen by almost 30 per cent in the last four years, new figures show

A Catholic college has become the UK’s newest university

Harvard comes top in the FT’s Global MBA Ranking 2014

By Allie Grasgreen, for Inside Higher Ed

Queen’s and Ulster can take part in Science Foundation Ireland’s Investigators Programme

Taught postgraduate courses are facing a “perfect storm” caused by drops in student numbers and a fall in institution income

The vice-chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University is to retire at the end of the year.

Arguing the case for market forces in higher education will become harder if a university looks likely to fail, warns Emran Mian

George Osborne “must step back” from forcing cuts “that will cause such damage to universities”, the Universities UK president has warned.

A quarter of academics are employed on teaching-only contracts, new figures show

Thousands take part despite pay threat, UCU says

Universities face “difficulties” in planning student recruitment because of a row in government on whether to scrap funding for the poorest students.

Figures show effect of £9,000 tuition fees and relaxation of student number controls

Delayed approval from No 10 raises questions about future of role

Salary shoots up for Sheffield v-c while UCU strikes over 1% pay offer

£10 million scheme set up to counteract disincentivisation of undergraduate debt for potential researchers

Does more mean better or worse?

Eminent academics restate worth of ‘knowledge for its own sake’

The government wants academics to do more to help get young people into work

Head of postgraduate powerhouse Sir Peter Gregson wants to ensure doors are open to all

Roger Jeffery on the difficulties of achieving equity in authorship in multinational teams

Analysis critical of professor’s discovery claim is published on arXiv

A growing zeal to address ‘well-being’ diverts resources from those who really need help, says Kathryn Ecclestone

Students assigned an old-fashioned date by Boston College lecturer

UEA head blames home secretary for UK’s first fall in international students

Addressing global problems should be the academy’s raison d’être, argues Nicholas Maxwell

Some members have branded the University and College Union’s decision to hold a series of two-hour strikes a “shameful” attempt to scale back industrial action over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer

Increasingly litigious students are consequence of consumerist nature of universities, says lawyer

Agency head Anthony McClaran elaborates on what the role will entail. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Chants, used positively by Tottenham Hotspur fans, must not be appropriated by anti-Semites looking for an excuse to tout hatred, says Emma Rees

The ASA and QAA may be too passive, argues study that found misleading claims in prospectuses

We speak to the pro vice‑chancellor for research and innovation at Newcastle University

Department head Philippe Froguel insists complaints of ‘bullying’ were intended to oust him from his post

Can social scientists and humanities scholars rise to the challenge of reshaping Europe while remaining true to their principles?

New College of the Humanities plots course for growth and more investment

Research is like a baby - insistently demanding and on its own timetable, as Rebecca Braun found on maternity leave

V-c acknowledges ‘agonising’ decision faced by staff over two-hour walkout

Vince Cable has told MPs he agrees that scrapping student opportunity funding would “most impact” groups such as low-income and disabled students.

David Richardson is to become vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia when present incumbent Edward Acton retires in September

Edward Snowden is standing to become the next rector for the University of Glasgow.

Several universities are threatening to deduct a full day’s pay for anyone taking part in a two-hour walkout, a union has claimed

The Natural Environment Research Council would not contemplate fully privatising its centres, its chief executive has pledged

The University of Cumbria has become the first UK institution to accept Bitcoin for the payment of tuition fees