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The British Council has launched an online list of student recruitment agents that have signed up to certain principles.

Sir Ivor Crewe - master of University College, Oxford - has been appointed as the next president of the Academy of Social Sciences.

Twenty institutions have been announced as winners of the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education.

Universities UK warns rights of religious speakers could be “curtailed unlawfully” if institutions insist on mixed seating

Business secretary talks of ‘significant advance’ in college higher learning

The European Union’s flagship schemes to support higher education, Horizon 2020 and Erasmus+, have received substantial increases in their budgets.

Peers criticise ‘ad hoc’ spending announcements on infrastructure

New shadow wants ‘much stronger paths’ between sectors, conference hears

David Willetts has confirmed that public spending on students at private providers trebled this year.

For the first time the Office for National Statistics has broken down its data on graduates by whether or not they went to a Russell Group university.

A clear winner emerges following a vote by the Times Higher Education editorial team

Welsh education minister says time to ‘take stock’ of Cardiff policy

Students’ unhappiness with the number of contact hours they get at university has been detailed in a new report

‘Resurrecting the Book’ conference hears support for printed word

A formal body should be set up to coordinate efforts to implement open access, the Finch Group has recommended.

Film shows how Indian students successfully navigated the process

Report pays tribute to museums big and small

Firm will detail effectiveness of its courses by auditing products

A students’ union has expressed its anger after a police officer was apparently caught on camera trying to recruit an activist to spy on students

The vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University has announced he is to retire next year.

The Green Party is organising protests across the country against plans to sell off the student loan book.

If we were to choose an official global university capital, which cities would be in the running? The following 18 would certainly be in with a shout

The battle over plans to close the University of London Union has seen its president, Michael Chessum, arrested.

Vince Cable has criticised the “qualification inflation” that means entrants to “very standard” professions such as nursing require a degree.

The Open University is to withdraw its postgraduate teacher training programme after its January and March 2014 intakes.

At least a quarter of the “access gap” for “top” universities in three countries cannot be explained by academic achievement, a new report says

The immigration minister has accused universities of creating “a self-fulfilling prophecy for bad news” on student visas

A second university has threatened academics with a loss of pay over working to rule, Times Higher Education has discovered. 

Major philanthropists are more generous to higher education in the US and UK than they are in other regions, according to a new report.

Unions representing higher education staff have announced a second nationwide strike for 3 December.

“Right-on” lecturers and student campaigns cited as among the reasons, Commons event hears

Scotland risks losing its thriving research base if it becomes independent, analysis by Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has claimed

By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed

The number of international students in US higher education has reached an all-time high according to an authoritative report

A university threatened staff that it would dock them a day’s pay if they did not work unpaid overtime, it has emerged.

The 1994 Group of small research-intensive universities has decided to disband 19 years after being set up.

The president of South Korea has visited Imperial College London to mark a series of agreements between the institution and Korean universities.

The new EU-funded ranking system has secured involvement from around 600 institutions and will see users choose their own indicators.

Birmingham receives £15 million from former student

The University of Oxford has named a new building after the late Baroness Thatcher

UK researchers should be permitted to publish in top international journals even if those journals are not compliant with open-access mandates.

The government has been accused of preventing a “timely and legitimate analysis” of data on next year’s teacher training places.

Edinburgh University Press has bought Dundee University Press for an undisclosed sum.

Research council reveals details of its scheme for PhD provision

The accuracy of predicted A-level grades may be much worse than feared, research suggests.

A course designed to prepare students for their time at university is among nine new offerings from massive open online course provider FutureLearn

Times Higher Education is to publish the world’s first global ranking of universities in Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa and other emerging economies

Engineering departments bidding for £200 million of new capital funds for teaching should only be eligible if they are signed up to Athena SWAN

Universities in the UK produce the second highest number of millionaires in the world after the US, according to a new league table from Spear’s magazine and WealthInsight

About 12,500 staff are paid less than the Living Wage at UK universities, new research suggests

Donations to universities in the UK are even more skewed towards the elite than in the US, according to a new report

People who attend university are less likely to commit crime, drink heavily or smoke, according to a new database of evidence on the social benefits of higher education

Soas, University of London has been awarded a £20 million gift, the largest in its history, by a US foundation

The number of teaching training places allocated to universities by Michael Gove’s department has fallen by 14.5 per cent

Noisy protests on pickets lines, cancelled classes and student occupations have been seen at universities across the country as trade unions mounted a one-day strike over pay.

The capital element of the science budget should be ring fenced to avoid the peril of “announcement-based politics”, according to Labour’s new shadow minister for the sector.

Twitter was awash with picket line updates from the higher education strike - here is a selection

Strike rallies will take place across the UK today during a one-day walkout by university staff over pay, with some universities already cancelling classes

The Prince of Wales owned up to “meddling” as he announced the launch of 20 new bursaries for students from less affluent backgrounds on television courses

Six Russell Group universities are among the 20 higher education institutions who will take part in a pilot of US-style degree classifications