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The battle over plans to close the University of London Union has seen its president, Michael Chessum, arrested.

Academics taken aback by consequences of coalition policy

Some firms want only the ‘people their sons and daughters go to school with’

The number of postgraduates applying for career development loans fell by 43 per cent between 2011-12 and 2012-13

If universities want to keep teacher training, their courses must be more relevant to the real school world, argues Susan Bassnett

Initiatives must reach out to wider audience with success stories and ‘risk-taking’, according to Graeme Atherton

Scrapped mission group was close to high-profile rebrand

Effort to improve quantitative skills in social sciences must go farther, John MacInnes says

We speak to the award-winning author and playwright, and professor at Kingston University. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Australia’s universities don’t consider data burden for ‘traffic light’ reports to be excessive, forum hears

A mentor provides far more than inspiration and sage advice, says Tom Palaima, who fears for the future of such guiding relationships in the era of Moocs

Private universities will keep US system ahead of Asia for decades yet, conference hears

Research councils show value of restraint

Robert Appelbaum on the war of words that preceded the withdrawal of plans to privatise universities

Susan K Burton looks back at her time teaching at Japanese universities and wonders why more Westerners don’t head east

Examining collaborative provision in an Asian partnership left John Buglear doubting the fitness of such ventures

Losing on the political stage has prompted public intellectual to change how he teaches

Our complicity as onlookers sharpens Cormac McCarthy’s bleak morality tale, Duncan Wu finds

UCU protests over sacking of free speech champion

Victim of harassment calls for changes in light of jail term for Queen’s academic

Symposium considers drawing’s role in refining and communicating knowledge, from geology to surgery to unicorns

Vocational courses are the latest focus of government investment

‘Big money’ grants foster ‘bookkeeping’ work at the expense of small-scale but potentially groundbreaking efforts, says Gary Thomas

London research giant attributes success to interdisciplinary approach

Feargal Sharkey tells GuildHE conference of hits, myths and the cost of ‘free’ in the Mooc era

Vince Cable has criticised the “qualification inflation” that means entrants to “very standard” professions such as nursing require a degree.

The Open University is to withdraw its postgraduate teacher training programme after its January and March 2014 intakes.

At least a quarter of the “access gap” for “top” universities in three countries cannot be explained by academic achievement, a new report says

The immigration minister has accused universities of creating “a self-fulfilling prophecy for bad news” on student visas

A second university has threatened academics with a loss of pay over working to rule, Times Higher Education has discovered. 

Major philanthropists are more generous to higher education in the US and UK than they are in other regions, according to a new report.

Unions representing higher education staff have announced a second nationwide strike for 3 December.

“Right-on” lecturers and student campaigns cited as among the reasons, Commons event hears

Scotland risks losing its thriving research base if it becomes independent, analysis by Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has claimed

By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed

The number of international students in US higher education has reached an all-time high according to an authoritative report

A university threatened staff that it would dock them a day’s pay if they did not work unpaid overtime, it has emerged.

The 1994 Group of small research-intensive universities has decided to disband 19 years after being set up.

The president of South Korea has visited Imperial College London to mark a series of agreements between the institution and Korean universities.

The new EU-funded ranking system has secured involvement from around 600 institutions and will see users choose their own indicators.

In Cara lecture, Iraqi-born physicist calls for revival of region’s thirst for knowledge

IFS: places, grants or remaining direct funding will have to be cut

Bill Galvin optimistic about future despite massive deficit

International Programmes analysis points to courses’ marketing benefits

Our cultural values, media and education system are pushing science to the margins, Dame Athene Donald warns

Report calls for overarching body to fill gaps in national ‘framework’

The Universities Superannuation Scheme is in deficit but has healthy assets, says Michael Bourn

Preliminary findings of major study revealed

We speak to the dean of the School of Art & Design, Bath Spa University. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Pair aim to offer English language support in war-torn areas

Inflation means ‘something has to give’, leader tells Times Higher Education podcast

Privatisation of debt dubbed a ‘silly idea’ by critics