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Department confirms work to find savings is ongoing, but offers no details on George Osborne’s Budget pledge to bring in ‘new entrants’, says John Morgan

Members include experienced higher education campaigner Paul Blomfield and medical doctor Tania Mathias

Green encyclical ups pressure on Catholic universities to show moral leadership on climate change. Will more make an ethical shift?

Debate may also consider efficacy of running new framework in tandem with REF

But chancellor’s move to change student loan repayment rules presents risks

Chancellor George Osborne also announces scrapping of student maintenance grants and plans to make graduates pay more for loans through repayment threshold freeze

Republican presidential hopeful wants radical reform of university system

Government reductions could leave universities to fund most help for disabled students

Labour leadership candidate calls for 'revolution in science' and increased research and development spend

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz draws on his own background as the child of Polish immigrants to counter ‘negative’ rhetoric on immigration

Universities face having to navigate two quality frameworks as Jo Johnson makes teaching excellence framework a priority amid Hefce reforms

With Hungary accused of ‘undermining democratic values’, Malcolm Gillies considers to what extent universities with a liberal mission can flourish in ‘illiberal’ societies

Teaching Shakespeare in Palestine was intense, disturbing and unforgettable, a University of Bristol lecturer says

David Willetts is wrong: the sector is put at risk by the student loans system’s structural flaws, warns Andrew McGettigan

‘Build stronger mass higher education institutions,’ professor tells Society for Research into Higher Education meeting

Former University of Bedfordshire vice-chancellor to continue in widening participation post

Deputy news editor John Morgan braves the hottest day of the year to take in the new minister's inaugural higher education address

But minister appears to drop reference to teaching excellence framework carrying 'financial' incentives

Universities minister raises concerns about increasing number of students receiving top grades

Board of main v-c body says inflation has eroded value of 2012 settlement

Navitas says enrolment down by 13 per cent in second semester of 2015

Minister avoids direct answers to Labour questions

In this blog, news editor Simon Baker considers whether we’ve seen it all before with Hefce’s proposals

Excellent teaching  ‘key priority’ for government

Possibility of body to grant higher vocational awarding power suggested in BIS consultation paper

Funding crisis could spell the end for colleges, claims Alison Wolf study

Proposals follow recommendations in independent report

Open University vice-chancellor calls on government to arrest drop in enrolment

Lack of safeguards raises ‘fundamental issue of academic freedom’

Edinburgh principal Sir Tim O’Shea warns such a system would distract from real mission

Debate over the RAB charge is misleading. England's higher education funding system is sound and flexible, argues the former universities minister

The former universities minister discusses the reforms that reshaped higher education and his first steps into academia

A babel of voices are drowning out the many real threats to intellectual freedom, warns Alan Ryan

Sector called on to embrace faith-related concerns in intellectual debates

Applications suspended until audit of processes and guidance is complete

Time needed to shift to maintenance loans means BIS savings will have to come from elsewhere, sector believes

Former minister’s policy pamphlet outlines possible cost-saving approach

Legislation leaves door open to have elections for governing body chairs

By Kellie Woodhouse, for Inside Higher Ed

England’s £9,000 fee system is “broadly fit for purpose” and “does not require wholesale reform”, but maintenance support for students should be enhanced, according to a new report

The UK’s “internationally admired system of peer review” should remain part of any future higher education quality assurance system, the head of the sector’s standards watchdog has said.

Additional support for part-time undergraduates also under consideration

Universities UK has launched its fightback against the prospect of further funding cuts with the publication of a study highlighting the economic benefits of higher education

He never lost his loathing of school, but becoming a university chancellor made the leader an ally of higher learning, writes David Cannadine

A former adviser to Vince Cable expects maintenance grants to disappear and a lower loan repayment threshold as department tackles £450m cut

Lobby group presses the case for UK science in the wake of BIS cuts of almost half a billion pounds

A conference will explore the role of “Universities in Revolution and State Formation” all the way from 19th-century Sicily to the Arab Spring.

The Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced the government department covering higher education will have its budget for this year cut by a further £450 million.

Nicola Dandridge on the measures announced in the Queen’s Speech and their impact on the sector

Former Tory adviser on how his time at Stanford has transformed his thinking and why Moocs are indispensable

Home Office acts on allegations of fraudulent language qualifications

Hepi head says £30bn export aim achievable only with cross-government effort

Universities have confirmed their opposition to any academic boycott of Israel following votes by student and lecturer groups in favour of sanctions.

The UK needs to stop using greater efficiency in research as justification for funding cuts, a vice-chancellor and ex-research council head has said.

The government should lift restrictions to allow British students to use state loans for fees abroad, the former universities minister has claimed

Education is the best possible antidote to radicalisation, the academic set to be the next vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has said

Scientific and university bodies have reacted warily to the proposed introduction of student loans for doctoral students

Jo Johnson has pledged that the UK has “an ambition to grow” its international education activity and has committed to addressing the fall in the number of students coming from India

Academics have a duty to explain why they hold their political beliefs, says Shahidha Bari

Comments follow huge hike in net migration figures