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Shadow universities minister also vows to tackle overseas recruitment barrier

New Generation Thinker Sarah Peverley likes to disseminate elements of her work for public

Lack of interdisciplinarity and pared funds a cause of concern for social sciences

Bird numbers in Britain and Ireland - monitored with the aid of citizen scientists - are falling. Tim Birkhead calls for action

China tops list of hot emergent properties

Students have occupied the University of London’s Senate House in a protest over pay, pensions and financial accountability.

Cambridge Education Group, which prepares international students for university, has been sold to a private equity firm in a deal worth £185 million.

HESA announces publication date for data on number of researchers eligible for submission

The latest student occupation of Bramber House at the University of Sussex has ended after seven nights.

A total of £2 million is to be spent on helping universities support students who want to work in social enterprise and entrepreneurship.

East Asia has strengthened its grip on the top places of the world’s most influential international education rankings, it was revealed today

Lectures and seminars are likely to be cancelled across the UK as university staff hold a second national walk-out over pay.

Two Welsh universities have set up a centre designed to tackle educational inequality in the country.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

A unique collection of artworks by more than 70 artists from around the world went under the hammer in London on 5 December 2013 to raise money to support academics fleeing persecution worldwide

A further 10 UK universities have gained an award that recognises commitment to developing the careers of researchers.

Social mobility could be harmed if cuts of £45 million are focused on the so-called “widening participation premium”, a new study says

A new booklet has been launched on the role of social science in promoting “mental wellbeing”.  

The government has suspended all funding for overseas EU students at private colleges, and for Bulgarians and Romanians at public universities.

The government has suspended 23 private colleges from the publicly-funded loans system after a surge in their student numbers.

Amanda Goodall offers twenty inexpensive methods to help your institution climb the world university league tables

The University of Huddersfield has been named University of the Year

Outsourced cleaners at the University of London have vowed to fight on despite being offered improved terms and conditions after a two-day strike.

Adequate funding has been allotted for universities to meet the cost of open access, the government has maintained

Britain’s poorest students are set to lose bursaries and other support worth £100 million next year after ministers fast-tracked planned cuts.

Students have reoccupied a conference centre at the University of Sussex that was at the centre of previous protests over the outsourcing of services.

Ministers have been accused of “industrial scale incompetence” after a damning report on student loans was released by the public spending watchdog

Student collaboration blends skills to take fresh look at knowledge

Bahram Bekhradnia warns of the clear and present dangers facing the UK academy

Royal College of Art and Imperial partner in ‘high-impact’ hub

In the case of Rwanda, it is wrong to argue that only academics working outside the country are capable of critical comment, says Phil Clark

‘Student contract’ fails to forestall exodus as academy reels from massive cuts

Liberals and conservatives argue over merits of intergenerational Pay It Forward plan

Jisc’s super-fast network arrives ‘on time and on budget’

Emma Rees is 34 down, four to go in a bid to see the Bard’s entire canon on stage

THE straw poll shows efforts to lighten load have backfired

Inaccurate ‘begging letter’ incenses emeritus professor

Petting animals can help to overcome social barriers which can lead to improved learning for students, says Erin McKenna

Council pushes government to provide additional funding in light of abundance of high quality bids to run centres for doctoral training

‘Uncontrolled’ growth in HNCs and HNDs may lead to university retrenchment

The number of purpose-built student bed spaces in each region of the UK in 2013-14, how much they cost on average per week and the number of full-time students in 2011-12 are shown here

Academics must counter ‘verbicide’, which constrains expression, to foster new ideas and ways of seeing

Working Time Regulations not as restrictive as UCU thinks, lawyer argues

Ourania Filippakou and Ted Tapper consider whether they are heading for extinction

Open letter from around 100 staff condemns police action

Traditional ‘royal route’ to a degree holds sway over credit transfers

Sector’s report on decline failed to provide answers, says UEL centre’s director John Storan

Firm looks at potential for using behavioural economics in student recruitment

Discrepancies not fully explained by attainment levels, report finds

UK needs more vocational higher education alongside traditional courses, says Nick Davy

Harvard/MIT platform sees ‘huge demand’ as rival shifts approach

We speak to the Royal Society president and director of the Francis Crick Institute. Plus the latest higher education appointments

A British Academy report urges universities to help stem a decline in provision of languages with “strategic importance for defence and diplomacy”.

An advanced computer network designed specifically to serve the research and education sector has been launched.

Coalition government policy to create a market in higher education has pushed England’s sector into “a terrible muddle, unmatched in the world”.