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University of East London asks Sir David Melville to investigate international activities

Data show how much work conservation biologists do outside office hours

Higher education could face more cuts after next month’s polls, many fear

Critics say universities are ‘not playing fair’

Home Office bid would set huge hurdles for overseas students seeking private rentals, warns UKCISA

Global project explores the paucity of female leaders in academia

Wyn Ellis, who made a plagiarism claim against an official, has received menacing calls

In 1714, an Act of Parliament set a top prize of £20,000 (now worth about £1.5 million) for a method of determining a ship’s position east and west from a fixed meridian line

BIS study on graduate premium challenges research-intensive claims

Using silence effectively in the university classroom has pedagogical benefits, asserts Helen Lees

Austin Williams on the possibilities and limitations of ‘taking a line for a walk’

Will Brooker on a science fiction blockbuster that, despite the clichés, has much to say about inequality and oppression

How long before search committees stop assuming that the right man for the top university job is a man?

Academics claim breach of data protection rules on Rate Your Lecturer website

Undergraduates ‘reproduce social inequality’, paper argues

Ability concerns at University of Exeter business school forces rethink on international intake

Students get deeper insights when writers and poets such as Dickens and Neruda are on the syllabus, David Aberbach argues

Alessandra Lopez y Royo feels that money-obsessed universities are killing off integrity, honesty and mutual support

Smart thinking on efficiencies funnels cash to research

Computer science students face the highest rates of graduate unemployment, data from the Higher Education Statistics Agency show

Student numbers at private higher education institutions will be capped from 2014-15, the government has confirmed, while private providers will also be granted unlimited recruitment of high-grade students.

The University and College Union is among those invited to a Labour Party summit to discuss the controversial issue of zero-hours contracts.

Police have named the woman whose body was found in a lake at the University of East Anglia.

Nearly half of all university finance directors believe now is a good time to be taking “greater risk” onto their balance sheets, according to a survey by consultants Deloitte.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

More divorced mothers are seeking legal advice about whether ex-husbands can extend support payments for children at university, a law firm has said.

Work between the UK research councils, Indian government and business can be improved by fixing practical barriers to collaboration, a report says.

A new government-commissioned study says a degree will earn graduates an extra £252,000 over their lifetime for women and £168,000 for men.

The upturn in students accepted into university this year could disguise big falls at some institutions, a vice-chancellor has warned.

The number of students accepted on to university courses is up 9 per cent despite a fall in the number of top grades awarded at A level.

Eastern institutions slow to make inroads into Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities table

Not all institutions have clear rules on international students employing translators and other help

Oxford and Cambridge agreement could amount to breach of competition law, say experts

Institutions consider a ‘range of strategies’ to win favourable scores from students

But data show that grades in each subject may be rather more equal

Students should not be turned into consumers, sector expert Jürgen Enders tells David Matthews

Home Office ‘looking into’ partnership between Glyndwr University and London School of Business and Finance

When employers were freed go global, workers worldwide wobbled, says Ursula Huws

Ceramic cabbages, knitted cauliflowers and caterpillars, birds made of stone and metal, dancing daffodils, even a hive of porcelain bees: all formed part of the allotment created by the Manchester School of Art for the Royal Horticultural Society Flower Show at Tatton Park in Cheshire last month

Yearly improvements are an inevitable by-product of social progress, says Gary Thomas

Academy risks research future by failing to give credit where it’s due

Academic experts who can also entertain enjoy the high life on the high seas

Dean of medical school who was cleared of misconduct quits after restructure

Educators cannot assume that all young people are old hands online, research shows

Early results show 40% of respondents feel ignored

A new play animates the debate over academics’ moral quandaries

Olive Tree Programme offers ‘special space’ for cohort drawn from both sides of conflict zone

David Roberts and Blaine Greteman’s guide to a more universal university

Rachel Bowlby on a modern retelling of Henry James’ tale of childhood curiosity and parental shortcomings

The growing competition for UK universities from new types of education providers has been highlighted in a report from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

UEL body plans research into attainment and staffing gap

Will Michael Gove’s reform plans endanger the traditional values he seeks to promote? Jack Grove investigates