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Students who apply to university after receiving their A-level results are almost twice as likely to be dissatisfied with their course, a survey says.

Pearson College, the institution owned by the education giant Pearson, is to offer business degrees validated by Ashridge Business School.

The first courses on the UK’s first massive open online course platform Futurelearn will be unveiled in mid-September, it has been announced.

Australia is the most expensive place in the world to study for international students, followed by the United States and the UK, says new research.

Welcome to the Times Higher Education PhD surgery with Tara Brabazon, professor of education at Charles Sturt University, Australia.

The Catapult network of technology and innovation centres will see a “significant expansion”, the government has announced.

Undergraduates at the University of Bath are the most satisfied students in the UK, according to the latest National Student Survey.

The private, not-for-profit ifs School of Finance has been granted university college status by the government.

Many private colleges are failing to take action to catch cheating by students, according to a Quality Assurance Agency review.

Academics at leading South Korean universities are the world’s best at attracting funding from business, a new study says.

The University of Bristol has launched an online forum, Public Spirit, to foster debate on the many key areas where faith impacts on public policy.

“Eugenics was created by Charles Darwin’s cousin Gollum,” according to a student gaffe that formed a late entry in our annual exam howlers competition

Rick Rylance has been reappointed chief executive and deputy chair of the Arts and Humanities Research Council for a further four years.

For academics, greater well-being doesn’t stem from spending more time at home

British universities may benefit from local clubs’ international exposure

Sian Lawson on how to align expectations in the social media age

University denies reneging on promise not to penalise staff over issue

Laurent Cantet’s gritty group portrait of a 1950s girl gang of teenage avengers

The correlation between distribution of universities and overall population distribution in the UK is surprisingly strong

‘Not just money-making exercise’, says company founder

Robert Zaretsky on sustained and sustaining pauses for thought during university lectures

StudentFunder aims to become ‘one-stop shop’ for those in need

Sarah Coakley, Cambridge professor of divinity, discusses how theology throws light on evolution, gender and other issues

But more academics are able to teach in the tongue, data show

Data on what each UK university will charge next year show how the cost of study can vary wildly

#ECRchat looks to offer global advice

Graeme Wilkinson left Wales to head a private institution that was more familiar than it first appeared

BPP decision reached despite concerns over US parent firm

Sweden aims to rebuild faltering overseas student numbers

Lecturer whips the average into shape for gruelling Barcelona triathlon

Online comments show no room for complacency

But scholars question motives behind restriction of project studentships

Observers predict admissions turmoil as Russell Group members join clearing

UCU research aims to find figure for academy alone

Drive to raise national profile yields opportunities for English speakers

This 400-year-old Bible is probably the most infamous of the rare religious books and manuscripts held in the University of Leicester’s Robjohns Collection

Female academics aim to boost women’s interest in computer science

A US professor who Tweeted that if overweight PhD applicants “didn’t have the willpower to stop eating carbs” then they “won’t have the willpower to do a dissertation” has been formally censured by his university.

Fresh light on how academic libraries in low- and medium-income economies are contributing to universities has been shed in a new report.

The pass rate for Scottish Highers has risen again, while more Scottish students have also won places at universities or colleges in the country.

Liberal Democrat members will be asked to endorse the current £9,000 tuition fees system as the party’s official policy and rule out a graduate tax

A legal challenge has been launched over law changes that unions claim make it easier to remove staff on fixed-term contracts.

By Lauren Ingeno, for Inside Higher Ed

Three universities have joined a national scheme to help students from disadvantaged backgrounds to gain places at highly selective universities. 

Two thirds of UK undergraduates do not believe a postgraduate degree is worth the cost, a survey of more than 1,100 students has found

Computer generated jokes can make people laugh, researchers have found, although they are still not as funny as human witticisms.

The former deputy head of the Higher Education Academy has taken over at the helm of the organisation.

Some 165 US university presidents and chancellors have called on political leaders in Washington to boost funding for research and education.

Christoph Bode reflects on a Munich exhibition of artists who rejected representation in favour of an emphasis on materiality

How a ‘freelance ghostwriter’ haunts the sector

Nick Hillman promises to speak truth to power and not toe party line

Wales and the North East of England have the lowest university application rates in the UK, Ucas data demonstrate

Research finds woe for squeezed middle, windfall for high-paid graduates

Wikipedia ‘edit-a-thon’ bolsters profile of women who changed science

John Ashdown-Hill says university failed to acknowledge his crucial contribution to discovery of king’s remains

Findings likely to be of interest to BIS as student loan costs grow