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Student activists have tried to occupy Vince Cable’s constituency office in protest at Liberal Democrat backing for the sale of the student loan book

Students across the UK are this week taking part in what organisers believe will be the biggest public debate on animal research ever held.

Save ‘outstanding’ programme, university told

These images form part of a forthcoming exhibition about the Victorian magazine Punch taking place at Liverpool John Moores University in celebration of the opening of the institution’s new Special Collections and Archives reading room

More and more prestigious US liberal arts colleges are making it voluntary for applicants to submit standardised test scores and say they will not favour the high achievers who do submit. These institutions hardly lack for excellent applicants. What’s up?

Faculty-in-residence keen to offer advice and a listening ear

Minutes suggest the pros and cons of strategies for submission

Sunderland and Ulster introduce fingerprinting systems

Original vision lost in scramble for profit and repackaging of old ideas, say pair

Vital academic work still missed by impact criteria and civil servants, forum hears

Witty recommends more collaboration, more funding and more weight for impact in REF

Alex Danchev delights in Tate Modern’s finely chosen feast of delicacies from the table of Paul Klee

A new generation of ‘dual-intensive’ universities can do the job, argues Edward Acton

Steve West warns that vice-chancellors’ duty to engage in debate is not straightforward

Nicolas Gompel explains how his pet obsession has inspired his investigations into biological diversity

As the 2014 REF census date approaches, Paul Jump talks to the architects of previous rounds of assessment about how it all began and their views on the research excellence framework

We speak to the president of Universities UK. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Gareth Williams laments the decline of higher education research since its heyday following an influential report

Cut wages at top to underwrite living wage to all, say Young Greens

How does the university calculate the real cost of undergraduate education?

Report warns of ‘market failure’ but critics say it doesn’t go far enough

Legal training overhaul would promote diversity and cut costs, regulator says

Reasons for withdrawal of legal action on eve of hearing remain unclear

With interest in Ralph Miliband’s work high after the Mail’s attack, could Marxism regain academic ascendency? asks Martin McQuillan

University hails no-strings pilot’s success

Credit transfer system could give Continent advantage over US

Plans to overhaul A-levels will have “tragic consequences” on fair access efforts, the University of Oxford’s admissions head has said.

Seventy-five institutions have been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s new PhD funding scheme.

University staff will hold a one-day strike on 31 October in a row over pay

The dramatic decline in part-time students will continue this year, according to a report that calls for an “urgent push” to promote such study.

The UK is the “biggest biosciences cluster in Europe” a report by the BioIndustry Association has said.

Impact should be given a weighting of 25 per cent at the next research excellence framework, the author of a government-commissioned review has said

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

The UK has overtaken Japan to become China’s second most prolific research collaborator.

Scientists need to lose their “excessive fastidiousness” to make London the scientific capital of the world, the city’s mayor Boris Johnson has said.

Universities are not producing enough science graduates to meet the needs of the UK economy, business leaders have claimed.

The University of Central Lancashire is to begin offering academic credit for courses that students complete for free online.

Queen’s University Belfast has announced that its dean of medicine, dentistry and biomedical sciences will take over as its president and vice-chancellor

Nearly two-thirds of University and College Union members voting in a ballot have backed strike action in a row over pay.

London Metropolitan University has agreed to end legal action against the Home Office over the revoking of its licence to recruit overseas students.

Measures to tackle illegal immigration are “discriminatory” to international students and send the message that they are not welcome in the UK.

The last three universities to benefit from the current round of the government’s Research Partnership Investment Fund have been announced.

‘Callous’ Home Office refuses leeway for applicant hit by currency drop

On 13 November 1967, Newcastle University became the first and only British university to give Martin Luther King an honorary degree during his lifetime

Piaac survey also calls comparability of degree standards into question

Discord over vocational and theoretical aspects of music study in the 19th century still resonates in today’s debates about higher education’s purpose

David Latchman welcomes reforms for restoring funding for some upskilling students, but argues the government should go further

Book celebrates centenary of the first global higher education network

Teachers will be motivated to improve if internal assessments are made public, says John Colley

Scottish glossary breaks down communication barriers

The scheme to boost women in science is widening its impact

Brussels ‘to close file’ on foreign scholars battling ‘xenophobic’ law