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Former CBI head says interaction’s the key to productivity

Row over use of language in sector a moot point, study finds

Minister and BIS take close interest in study with enormous policy implications

Academics and others discuss a typical working week

The high camp of Behind the Candelabra conceals an old-fashioned love story, Duncan Wu writes

Crowdsourcing is invaluable to researchers, but why do people do it and how can their interest be maintained?

Only £21m of £130.5m scheme reaching student pockets, Hefce finds

Business secretary will argue against sector cuts and for extra investment

Parallel sectors would overcome problems of ‘one-size-fits-all’ funding, group argues

Mayor confident in capital’s academic brand values

Europe-wide survey shows students don’t understand plagiarism

The academy must repel UKIP’s charges, argues Christopher Phelps

Spiders star in scholar’s photographic study

Conference hears of funding problems, graduate unemployment and mission creep

Scholars go hungry as a result of casualisation, congress hears

Cuts to admin staff will harm brand, say Cass Business School academics

When deciding where to publish their research, less than one in three academics see it as very important that a journal makes its articles available for free on the internet, a survey has found

Reassure junior researchers but make senior scientists know they’re being watched, scholar argues

Emily Wilding Davison famously stepped into the path of the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913

Liz Schafer explores why the work of the playwright Elizabeth Cary has been so marginalised

Austin Williams on eager-to-please students fired by a passion for knowledge

The Science Museum Group may completely close one of its three museums outside London, its director has said.

The University of Salford has confirmed plans to close virtually all courses in modern languages, politics and contemporary history and shut down an entire school “to secure the future of the university” after seeing falling student demand.

Fewer British universities are hitting their overseas student recruitment targets this year in the wake of the government’s visa changes and Indian student numbers have again been hit, according to Universities UK.

Groups of universities could raise funding for postgraduate student loans by issuing bonds, a report by the thinktank CentreForum has suggested.

A student Islamic society has apologised after a video was posted on its Facebook site claiming the killing of a soldier in Woolwich was a government hoax.

Shaun Lawson on the blooming of a long-held ambition

Moving medical education and research funding to the Department of Health would “pose a significant threat to the UK’s leading position” in the fields, medical schools have warned George Osborne.

Jackie Hunter has been appointed as chief executive and deputy chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

Young people in care are not getting enough support or advice to help them reach higher education, a new study says.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Hundreds of people have signed a petition protesting about new quarterly journal Porn Studies that is due to launch in spring next year.

Without proper reporting social and psychological experiments are a “waste of money”, researchers have said.

In the US, the Rate My Professors website has been used by students to dish out a “public scolding” to their lecturers – and now the UK has its own equivalent, possibly bringing a shiver of dread to academics and universities.

Leeds Metropolitan University is planning to change its name and is looking at three options: Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Headingley University and Leeds Ridings University.

Lecturers in the University and College Union have moved a step closer to taking industrial action after the union decided to urge members to reject a 1 per cent pay offer

The Wellcome Trust has announced plans to extend its open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters

Leading designers discuss how UK institutions must adopt technologies and work with industry

Graham Gibbs asks what ‘study skills’ consist of and whether they can actually be learned by students

How Bashir Makhoul explores through art the plight of his countrymen

Leaders lead, not their brains, argue Dirk Lindebaum and Mike Zundel

Tuition fees major concern for schoolchildren, Sutton Trust discovers

A variety of schemes would allow the academy to reclaim control of its knowledge and labour, says Steffen Böhm

OIA can overrule verdicts only in rare circumstances, High Court finds

Universities contributed £3.4 billion to the UK economy in 2011-12 in services to business and the community, figures published in the Higher Education - Business and Community Interaction Survey 2011-12 show

Edinburgh Napier’s outgoing v-c rejects ‘tick-box’ approach to governance

Existing office set-up is outdated, v-c argues

When anthropologists pointed out that cultural factors impeded tropical disease treatment campaigns, some fellow scientists reacted with outrage

A new production of Shakespeare’s brutal play continues to elicit disquieting questions about moral values

G. R. Evans’ rallying cry: scholars, do the spadework to defend the sector

Russell Group’s latest members have agreed to stump up £500,000 each