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Russell Group member successfully appeals against full QAA review

Research facility clusters mean the benefits are too localised, say Henry Overman and Christian Helmers

Robert Dunbar appointed to University of Edinburgh chair of Celtic languages

Students dissatisfied with contact hours, QAA overseas provision review shows. Jack Grove writes

The humanities classroom offers reflection of a healthier sort, says Robert Zaretsky

Flagship study-abroad scheme may have failed to attract desired numbers. Donna Bowater reports

Germany and Eastern Europe rocked by string of high-profile cases within their governments. Paul Jump reports

The Russian Academy of Sciences (RAN) produces the majority of Russian research - but are its members, set to vote for a new president, “serfs”?

Institution’s experiment combining classroom and online education aims to clear gridlocked ‘gateway’ courses

Postgraduates recount ill-treatment by academics as well as bosses

Nick Hillman says coalition approach to finance may shape global academy

Tate Modern exhibition AxMe shows African American artist talking back to race and gender history

Patricia Piccinini’s Sky Whale, created by Cameron Balloons in Bristol, was inspired by the artist’s reflections on evolution

Graduates from 1994 Group members are more likely than those of any other mission group to go on to taught postgraduate study, research has found

Body defends science and social mobility funds from spending review

More than 350 people, including several academics, have signed a petition protesting against the University of Leeds’ treatment of an international postgraduate student

Arguments intensify over union’s austerity plans in run-up to congress

Lab audits could demonstrate integrity, 3rd World Conference on Research Integrity hears. By Elizabeth Gibney

UK universities must form business partnerships to demonstrate the need for public investment. By Elizabeth Gibney

Event on academic freedom identifies ‘one-sided far-leftist agitprop’

The excuses academics use to explain away fraudulent research results

Hepi/Which? uncovers huge shortfall in study time

National Union of Students and businesses say stick to the Hear

Technology augments but cannot supersede intuition, argues Annette Karmiloff-Smith

Somewhere, in a class past or future, your nemesis awaits. John Kaag on the existential terror of a pedagogical puzzle

David Willetts has said the estimated public cost of the new student loans system “could rise further”, a factor that critics fear could leads to cuts elsewhere in the higher education budget and the redesign of the student support system.

Comedian Johnny Vegas has mounted a heart-felt defence of art school, claiming that the new fees regime will dissuade students from deprived backgrounds studying for creative degrees to the detriment of society.

Sixteen UK higher education institutions are to benefit from a £50 million investment in research projects designed to drive economic growth, the universities and science minister has said.

A department of Imperial College London has withdrawn the offer of an internship placement being sold by auction after the move received heavy criticism.

The government’s innovation agency the Technology Strategy Board will see a £50 million boost to its budget this year, the government has announced.

There is “no sign” that students paying up to £9,000 in tuition fees in 2012-13 are receiving more for their money from universities, according to a survey of contact hours, workload and satisfaction.

A study into transnational education has found that it can help train students to fill skills gaps in host countries, but also warned that it can contribute to a brain drain and has not led to enhanced research

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Editors have noted a “certain level of sloppiness” creeping into research papers, the executive editor of the Nature Publishing Group has said.

Students who use a Btec qualification to progress to a degree are slightly more likely to gain employment than their counterparts who take A levels, but will be paid less per hour, research has found.

Universities should lower their entry tariff requirements for students born in August to reflect the lower achievement levels of children born in the summer, a new study suggests.

Reformed graduate rock band provokes reflections on how much has changed since the heyday of ‘Spontaneous Emissions’

Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has called on British universities to help remedy the suppression of Burmese universities by the nation’s former military regime

But investigation finds that practice ‘did not always meet’ expected standards

More than half of academics are either not aware of universities’ knowledge transfer services or do not use them, a survey has found

Will Yale’s lure empty out the sixth forms?

Shahidha Bari traces the development of Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair, who, at 97, gets her first major museum exhibition

Unity decries decisions made ‘ad hoc’ without consulting scholars

Husband-and-wife academics debate the merits of the research excellence framework

V-c believes ‘radical solution’ is the way to rise up the rankings. John Morgan reports

The divisive country-club culture at ‘Midwest University’ that places status above study and raises partying to a vocation

Data infrastructure centre ‘decimated’, says 16-year veteran

Andy Westwood and Martin Doel map a route between FE and HE

Open online courses’ cohort much less massive at finish line

Undergraduate-led learning environment is eroding academics’ authority, Jack Grove writes

Humanities scholars must use dash and pluck to win research cash

These striking posters are part of the personal material donated by playwright Willy Russell to Liverpool John Moores University’s Special Collections and Archives

David Willetts and Vince Cable appear to prefer visiting Russell Group to post-92s, writes John Morgan