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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

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Vince Cable has said any sense of “triumph” over new figures showing a decline in student immigration is “absurd”, as he issued a strong defence of international student movement

Call to put differences aside, ahead of UCU Congress in Brighton

Stay-at-home students who attend a local university should be eligible for cut-price tuition fees of £5,000 a year, according to an influential commission of higher education experts

A major new academic study exploring the attitudes of women who have converted to Islam in Britain looks at issues ranging from dress codes to divorce, marriage to media stereotypes and spirituality to sexuality.

The University of Greenwich has launched an investigation into whether there has been extremism on its campuses after confirming that one of the suspects in the murder of a British soldier studied at the institution

Students at the University of Cambridge have written to an education minister attacking the government’s response to a petition against the plan to scrap AS levels.

Teenagers in one of London’s most deprived boroughs are to receive grants from their local authority to help them attend university.

Some employers are nervous about incorporating the Higher Education Achievement Report into their graduate recruitment process, a report has found.

Net migration to the UK has fallen again mainly thanks to a 23 per cent drop in the number of students coming to the country to study.

Lowering tuition fees to £6,000 – a policy put forward by Labour - could cost the Treasury the same as the current £9,000 set-up, a study has claimed.

Cyber rhino’s online rampage to raise public awareness

New v-c aims to crowdsource strategy via online meet-up

How Holyrood could deter English students in search of free tuition

Working-class students struggle with ‘composite masculinity’, study finds

Lack of online interaction could signal need for support, research suggests

Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say

Essex scholar Malcolm Brynin points to worsening odds on university ‘gamble’

A derelict research lab once used by Sir James Black is revived in an artistic installation

Getting image permissions for monographs is costly, slow and vexing

These miniature picture Bibles were created by two German sisters from Augsburg around 1690

UK-based provider is readying itself for launch in the autumn

An exhibition gives context and renewed attention to Richard Marsh, whose work outsold Dracula

Adrian Furnham has had his share of peer review nightmares, but the frailties of the system have also worked in his favour

Full disclosure could break competition law, conference hears

Alastair Bonnett visits Lincoln’s Social Science Centre, a cooperative, free university attempting to build a different kind of knowledge economy

Institutions consider projects to take advantage of VAT exemption

Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness, Tom Burns tells Matthew Reisz

Today’s students are impoverished by a scant knowledge of culture and context, but the story of art should be a sine qua non of any well-rounded curriculum, argues Brian Sewell

Catherine Clinton examines the novel’s enduring appeal as Baz Luhrmann’s version of The Great Gatsby bursts on to cinema screens

Less than 10 years since their introduction, tuition fees will soon disappear from the country. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports

Recruiting overseas students is the priority rather than UK growth and innovation

Study identifies better use of research capacity outside Anglo-American sphere

£9,000 limit poses threat to quality and income, conference hears

Nation likely to lose fruitful position in UK research system, experts say

Brighton event aims to form charter of core university values

Decisions based on gossip and favouritism make the scholarly job market unmeritocratic

The US massive open online course platform edX has signed up 15 more universities, more than doubling its number of higher education partners.

The publisher Elsevier has disassociated itself from an article by a trade association it belongs to that condemns proposed open-access mandates in several US states.

Staff in higher education are being urged to reject a “disappointing” 1 per cent final pay offer by universities.

Universities are more important than ever to the development of great cities and knowledge economies, argues John Sexton

A new website has been launched to help universities tackle violent extremism and radicalisation on campus.

The University of Glasgow has finally confirmed that a former professor was found guilty of falsifying data in five papers by an investigation that ended last August.

About one in 10 higher education students have experienced “suicidal thoughts”, according to a survey into mental health at universities.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

A campaign has been launched to promote part-time study following the dramatic fall in the number of such students choosing to enter higher education.

A US academic has proposed creating a massive open online course on Coursera that explores the effect of the company’s business model on global higher education.

Universities minister David Willetts has defended the student finance system against criticisms that it is unsustainable and will not bring in the amount of money required to fund the sector long term.

“It’s Mooc or die”, a university vice-chancellor has said, claiming that institutions must embrace the massive open online course movement and adapt their teaching methods or face a tough future.

Coalition of academics, publishers and funders rejects metric ‘obsession’

The government would like to see more publishers take up schemes that waive open access publishing fees for researchers from universities that subscribe to its journals, a senior civil servant has said.