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Competition and Markets Authority advice addresses terms and conditions for students

One of the most radical recent thinkers about language and communication has died

Bold new works exemplify the ethos of a university’s unique underground experimental exhibition space

We speak to the director of the Institute of International Health and Development at Queen Margaret University

Jean-Lou Chameau says universities must reflect the societies within which they exist

The UK sector gathers to hear and debate the major parties’ poll positions on higher education

As a consultation launches, employees consider the impact of the USS reforms

A claim of academic immunity is not the trump card it was, say David Lawson and Leon Glenister

The proportion of part-time staff on teaching-only contracts is now more than 60 per cent after climbing almost 4 percentage points in a year, according to a report

Mooted Hereford university benefits from serious backing

The Small Business, Enterprise and Employment Bill will enable ministers to join up datasets

The Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey is being abused, according to one former university employee

Concerns over open access publisher as journal containing ‘world’s shortest review’ disappears from Pharma Research Library list

FoI request shows large rise, which university puts down to more awareness

Response to Hefce consultation on quality assurance raises fears of an all-powerful regulator susceptible to political influence

‘Super-league’ can’t be shaken from the top

Research-intensives fear that shifts could cost them millions annually

Be open about your health, an academic advises. It could be the surest way to get the workplace support you need

Study suggest that most of the gender pay gap is ‘caused by discrimination’

University of Greenwich’s report following the murder of Fusilier Lee Rigby suggests the ‘area was a centre for radical Islamic movements’

Student beds, government bonds and science parks in investment packages assembled by new UK innovation team

Dominic Dean has a plan to make future assessment exercises easier, quicker and better

‘Management review’ led to removal of academic who harassed researcher

Liverpool’s new vice-chancellor discusses need for more women and ethnic minorities at the top

A legal battle in Germany over a contentious dissertation on Martin Luther and anti-Semitism raises key questions about academic decisions

Nature is offering anonymity for both reviewer and reviewed, but questions remain about value and effectiveness of the approach

Early career scholars will help themselves as well as others by assessing papers, abstracts, grant proposals and book chapters. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Those who spend part of their degree overseas tend to earn more in their first job and are less likely to be unemployed six months after graduating

Universities must be put at the “heart of the teacher education system”, according to a new election policy manifesto.

Institution exceeds limit on visa refusals

The UK’s top research-intensive universities should lead the way in the delivery of high-level apprenticeships which have same status as degrees

King’s is to take over Bush House, the former home of the BBC World Service

Places for initial teacher training should be allocated on a two- or three-year cycle to ease budgeting and staffing concerns at universities

The Haldane principle must not be a “prison” that stops research from accessing “substantial sums of money” from areas outside the science budget

By Jake New, for Inside Higher Ed

Massive open online courses will be one of the most important tools for recruiting overseas students over the next five years, a conference has heard

The need for reforming teacher training in Wales is “undeniable” if the country is to raise standards, a new report has stated

The proportion of students scoring top degrees at the University of Cambridge has increased significantly since 1960, according to a new analysis

England’s university access tsar boycotted a conference on student welfare after a controversial lending firm was also invited to speak

A major reorganisation of quality-related funding in Scotland will take money away from the “ancient” universities and hand it to newer institutions

First scientific journal reaches 350 year milestone

Conditions for female academics in some university history departments “smack still of the 1970s”, according to a new report

The UK’s universities increased their income from overseas students once again last year, with their fee payments rising to 12.7 per cent of total income.

The conversion of polytechnics into universities has been lamented as a “poor decision” by the business secretary

Matthew Ramirez demystifies the use of AR in university study

A physicist on the ‘shameless exploitation’ of low-pay sessional lecturing that leaves his family officially classed as ‘poor’

We speak to the human rights barrister, chancellor of the Asian University for Women and visiting professor in law at St Mary’s University, Twickenham

Labour’s proposal to cut tuition fees will be funded by removing a perk from the UK’s super-rich, writes the professor of geography

South University of Science and Technology of China wanted to buck the system. Did it succeed? asks Hong Bing

One of the foremost academic librarians of his generation has died

Are the best assessors your colleagues, or external observers?

Yong Zhao believes China doesn’t foster the free thinkers it needs. What is the state of the country’s higher education system?

Student Funder’s chief executive says an analysis shows that more than half of prospective students will miss out on the new government scheme

Creative writing, often seen as a heretical branch of English studies, is split into sects. But such schisms are no sin, says Jonathan Taylor

REF data show big jumps in number of doctoral degree awards in some subjects

Help for non-traditional learning wins support, with Greg Clark saying ‘watch this space’