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University says problems at partner colleges affect just 3% of students

The Army’s teamwork ethos shaped the management style of the University of Essex’s Anthony Forster

A retrospective of the neglected artist to whom Claude Monet ‘owed everything’ is long overdue, writes Christoph Bode

Cardiff calls time on anonymous allegations of past misconduct in dean’s lab. Paul Jump reports

Research club offers hands-on access to fascinating materials from aerogel to baby teeth

We must hold up a mirror to scientific peer review if we are to stamp out fraud and uphold the discipline’s reputation, argues Philip Moriarty

Vast digital archive of court records 1674-1913 is ‘dead people’s big data’

The US dominates this year’s CWTS Leiden Ranking of the world’s top universities.

The vice-chancellor of the UK’s first private university will attend Baroness Thatcher’s funeral after being invited on her instructions, and has praised her for transforming the nation “wholly for the better”.

The University of Leicester has launched an investigation into a public lecture held by its student Islamic society after pictures of signs at the event suggested that men and women were encouraged to sit separately.

A new draft code of governance for Scottish universities has been condemned as “weak”, “meaningless in places” and offering “nothing new” by student and academic unions north of the border.

Incoming National Union of Students president Toni Pearce has acknowledged that sections of the organisation’s membership are dissatisfied with its direction, and is determined to bring them back on board.

Exceptions in the UK funding councils’ open access policy will be made for researchers hired from abroad, the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s head of research has pledged.

A huge cut to the Australian higher education budget announced just months before the next federal election is the largest since 1996, according to umbrella body Universities Australia.

Action needs to be taken against Scottish universities because senior staff members are being given “worrying levels of high pay”, the National Union of Students Scotland has said.

Arts and humanities PhD graduates from the US are more employable than their UK counterparts, a conference on doctoral education has heard.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

The BBC’s use of a student group from the London School of Economics to gain access to North Korea could jeopardise the overseas reputation of UK universities and the work of academics more generally, according to the sector’s representative body and the LSE director

LSE director condemns BBC tactics over controversial Panorama documentary

European countries that have a greater proportion of foreigners in their skilled workforce produce more highly cited research, a study has concluded.

Survey reveals online revolution is news to large proportion of European universities

Scientists in the UK have won a major Czech research contract worth £10 million to develop laser technology.

Philip Altbach says global expansion may entrench the dominance of Western university systems

European ombudsmen must share best practice to improve resolution of students’ grievances, advocates Rob Behrens

Improved procurement could be the secret to balancing the sector’s books in tough times, Nick Petford and Andy Davies suggest

Yachtswoman’s charity funds research into innovative economic ideas

Demise of matched funding leaves majority of institutions worse off. David Matthews reports

In a world untouched by the Sun for millennia, a UK scientist found research heaven and arachnophobe hell

New head of all-women Murray Edwards College, Cambridge makes equality a priority

‘Race law’ cited in imposition of reductions

Report says distribution would change little if based on institutions’ research council income

Strikers are fighting ‘charter for managerial radicalism’, says academic

Efficient and inclusive decision-making will help universities to gain the support of their communities, says Ferdinand von Prondzynski

Clear sight essential, thick skin an advantage: Hepi’s outgoing director looks back on 11 years of scrutiny on the sector’s behalf

Forum discusses efforts to increase mobility of Europe’s academics

Black and ethnic minority academics still suffer racism, study finds. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Entomologist James Logan takes part in a Wellcome Collection series in celebration of the insect kingdom

Former president says online courses could drive down costs

Former prime minister’s higher education policies still elicit respect and rancour. Jack Grove reports

Cross-party group will review for-profit higher education operators

Unions fear job losses will fund institution’s lofty research ambitions

Future European funding may depend on identifying how research affects women as well as men

Nasir Warfa believes he is on a US security watch list, writes David Matthews

Affluent students who miss out on elite places ‘hyper-mobilise’ to retain status

Could a Welsh institution’s success offer insights to help stragglers catch up?

Regional competitors are hot on Japan’s heels in inaugural THE Asia University Rankings

Overall funding for Welsh universities is set to increase by 13.6 per cent next academic year.

Cardiff University’s dean of medicine has been cleared of research misconduct but the institution has found a former member of his lab guilty of image falsification in four papers.

Boys have been deterred from going to university more than girls in the first year of higher tuition charges, a new study by the Independent Commission on Fees says.

The founders of Mendeley have insisted that selling the company to the controversial academic publisher Elsevier will result only in “good things”

Research Councils UK has removed from its guidance on its open-access policy an exhortation for institutions and authors to make sure a “proper market in article fees” operates.

Toni Pearce has been elected as the next president of the National Union of Students, promising to fight for “a movement where students’ unions are leading from the front and aren’t just an afterthought”.