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About three quarters of taught postgraduate students are happy with the teaching and learning on their course, a new national survey says.

Scholars say culture of deference stifles development

Academics at Avans University in the Netherlands revamp seminars to promote student engagement

Barts Pathology Museum prepares the specimens for autumn lectures

Christopher Bigsby offers some words of advice

Lecturer says profession should widen its global outlook

Blog calls for state to give scholars opportunity to influence policy

Rare recognition by standards watchdog

A weighted approach is the best bet for assessment, say Andrew Oswald and Daniel Sgroi

Open educational resources considered by institutions and publishers

OER drive by nation’s institutions will save lecturers time

End of racial affirmative action may not be bad news for minorities, study shows

To avoid conflicts of interest, academic research must be transparent and independently funded, says Cary Nelson

Reform must go all the way, argues Bill Rammell

Private sector hopes to grow on back of oil-backed education funding boost

UK platform aims to make up for late start via ‘social architecture’

St John’s College, Cambridge was established by charter in 1511 through the generosity of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509)

A physics/teaching degree has produced its first graduates

Richmal Crompton’s stories have thrilled generations of children but critics have kept their distance. It is time the establishment embraced them

Development programmes can make for speedier submission of theses, research suggests

‘Stable’ figures raise question: where has the money gone?

Amended policy accepts £9,000 charges in short term

University plans to give graduates more international experience

OIA orders Warwick to pay £1,000 but finds no evidence that Smadar Bakovic was marked down unfairly

Anthony Seldon says the best way to improve teaching in universities is through tough appraisals based on student feedback

Universities may need to do more to integrate part-time students into their research culture, a survey suggests

Minister’s call comes as Lib Dem conference votes to remove students from immigration figures

Toni Pearce confident BIS negotiations will pay dividends for students

The rise of the taught master’s course has come with a troubling shift in focus towards ‘employability’

Union members in higher education will be balloted for industrial action over the employers’ 1 per cent pay offer

Registration on the UK’s first massive open online course platform has opened following a launch at the British Library.

A current lack of transparency in clinical trials is “unacceptable”, a cross-party group of MPs has said

The UK’s first massive open online course platform will allow students to set their own targets and escape rules set by “The Man”

Universities’ borrowing could come under more scrutiny with the form and extent of debts being part of risk assessments by England’s funding council

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

An attempt by senior Liberal Democrats to endorse £9,000 fees as official policy has failed, after members clung on to an aspiration to abolish fees

A leading sociologist has attacked the application of so-called “‘evidence’-based policy” – and much of the research lying behind it – to education

Involving patients in research programmes increases the likelihood of recruiting a target number of people, a study has found.

Some of the world’s most powerful graduates demonstrate the influence of UK universities

A cross-party group of MPs has launched an inquiry that will look at the black and minority ethnic community’s interaction with higher education.

Cows may have an unfortunate reputation for being slothful, but even long hours on their pins do not increase the likelihood of them lying down.

Student recruitment could be jeopardised by “public paranoia” over immigration among the UK’s “xenophobic” population, vice-chancellors have said.

Vice-chancellors should take up more prominent public roles as forces for good in society, the National Union of Students president has said.

US academics are more likely to work with peers outside the US than European researchers are to link up with those outside Europe, a new study says.

Vince Cable has predicted that Labour would not change the £9,000 fee system, while also forecasting that David Willetts would be safe in a reshuffle.

But Hesa data offer signs of hope for shorter courses

Response to consultation says change to company name restrictions could aid bogus institutions

Hip programme targets the groups others cannot reach

Almost one in three senior female academics feels their institution treats staff unfairly in relation to gender, a survey has found

Leader hopes for cooperative, ‘values-driven’ federation

John Williams’ novel about the careworn life of an obscure US academic deserves its belated success, Christopher Bigsby writes

University rethinks stance after claim that the demand discriminated against poor students

Social network offers comparative information for potential undergraduates

Schools can add much to training, says the head of new Sheffield Institute of Education

Mobile phone ownership across the continent is rocketing, but can it expand higher education’s reach and quality?

UK and US universities could profit from growing appetite for study abroad, says report