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Minister points to ‘incremental’ removal and sounds warning over Labour fees policy

OU report dubbing 2013 the ‘year of the crowd’ pinpoints emerging technologies set to revolutionise sector

The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2013-2014, powered by Thomson Reuters, are now available

Imperial College London has moved its Translation Studies Unit to University College London.

Three more universities - two from England and one from New Zealand - have signed up to FutureLearn, the UK’s massive open online course provider.

A youth mentor has defended Oxbridge against charges of racial bias in admissions, earning a standing ovation at the Conservative Party conference.

A students’ union vice-president was arrested after objecting to the conduct of police officers searching for drugs at a university party.

Universities were guilty in the past of “extracting money” from business school students without giving them good quality teaching.

Lib Dem Business Secretary on immigration, fees and Willetts’ future

A vice-chancellor has declared he is “fed up with employers telling us our students are not employment ready”.

An MP close to David Willetts has admitted defeat on hopes to withdraw students from net migration figures in the near future.

Emran Mian on the questions that bothered him while working on the Browne Review, and which bother him still

By Michael Stratford, for Inside Higher Ed

Fee loans will be offered to students studying engineering and technology part time as second degrees in a bid to attract more women to the subjects.

Almost two-thirds of students and graduates know someone who has lied on their CV about their qualifications, a survey has found.

Academics will join a host of well-known names for a festival this weekend encouraging each of us to cast our “mind forward 25 years to the 2030s”.

Many universities are still failing to follow official guidance on when to report student complaints to the sector’s ombudsman, it has been warned.

Applications to the Athena Swan Charter for Women in Science continue to grow, the latest set of awards has revealed.

Party needs better position on funding, says Bill Rammell

THE investigation reveals 63 per cent increase in 0.2 deals since October 2011

Horizon Scanning study points to a ‘new kind of pedagogy’ in higher education by 2020

New universities may gain most from policy change, argues GuildHE head

Academia ‘has a duty to nurture students’ fledgling businesses’, Royal Academy of Engineering panel hears

A lecturer talks about her fascination with body art

Union a ‘positive activity’, says economics lecturer

Scholar reflects on risks, regrets, the value of teaching and facing the global future

New book aims to promote calm in place of ‘grievance’

FoI also shows Patrick McGhee set up inquiry into doomed overseas ventures

Template for Orwell’s nightmare the subject of major AHRC-backed study

Rectors demand more federal support from new government. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports

This guidance for university tutors is taken from a 1674 book, Firmianus and Dubitantius, which consists of “certain dialogues concerning atheism, infidelity, popery, and other heresies and schisms that trouble the peace of the Church and are destructive of primitive piety”

A career in science is built on hope and naviety as well as intellect, argues Russell Foster

Academics and students register opposition to outlawing of overt displays of religious affiliation

Matthew Reisz talks to academics who have devoted their lives to studying the Bard

Generalists on fair terms would offer the flexibility the sector needs, argues Philip Roddis

Outgoing Hefce captain proud of guiding sector through choppy waters

Analysts accuse organisation of ‘misrepresenting’ figures

Universities urged to adopt Arrive guidelines

Scott Armstrong’s 2013 Max Perutz Prize-winning essay on xenon’s potential to save lives

Russell Group institutions are by far the most popular UK destinations for overseas students, accounting for more than a third of the numbers in 2011-12

Critics of The Satanic Verses lost the battle but are winning the war, warns Dennis Hayes

Third initiative to foster fairer academy unveiled

Government report identifies friction in sector over online courses

Glasgow Caledonian University is to become the first UK university to open a campus in New York.

Student expenditure supports more than 830,000 jobs in the UK, a new study says.

Many universities are “still not focused enough on teaching” and are using £9,000 fees to subsidise research.

Prospective students can now search for information about higher education on their mobile phones after the government’s Unistats website was updated.

England has “too many” universities and some are likely to close, the director-general of the Confederation of British Industry has warned.

The number of undergraduates accepted on to courses has soared by 9 per cent after dipping dramatically last year, latest figures show.

Harvard University has launched a fundraising campaign that it hopes will boost its coffers by $6.5 billion (£4.1 billion).

The National Union of Students is hosting its first-ever Twitter question and answer sessions, offering first years advice on a range of topics.

Universities should ensure they have strategies to stop students feeling homesick as they begin their studies, experts say.

The winner of an annual pan-European award for teaching has put his success down to traditional methods of classroom “chalk and talk”.

Students paying £9,000 fees may be socialising less and working more than their counterparts under the lower-fee regime, new research suggests.