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Maintenance loan leaves average student £265 out of pocket each month, survey suggests

Funding for nursing and physiotherapy courses 'lowest of any subject in higher education'

Increase led by rise of applications from India and growing popularity of STEM subjects

Current provost to replace Sir Nigel Thrift

Excellent teaching  ‘key priority’ for government

New system to ‘put student needs at the centre’

The former Cabinet minister and diplomat will be the first black woman to lead a UK university

SUSTAIN programme includes year-long training programme

Jean-Claude Burgelman also tells London conference of need to 'embed' the concept in society

Scholars invite attendees to urinate in special toilet to harness their pee power

Compulsory redundancies ruled out until November

Future of the 400-year-old Catholic college is uncertain after decision to leave federal university in 2018

Imperial College London vice-provost Debra Humphris has been appointed as the new head of the South Coast institution.

US administration instead pledges to provide more data to students, researchers and institutions

Number of BTECs held by prospective university students on the up

Plans come after THE analysis revealed 18.2 per cent pay difference

Destination of Leavers from ÌÇÐÄVlog study reveals outcomes for 2014 graduates

The University of Hong Kong’s Peter Mathieson tells John Morgan about the Occupy protests, political pressure and being an outsider

A graph shows acutely how the representation of black and minority ethnic scholars drops away with the increasing seniority of academic posts

More than 1,000 people from across higher education packed into the Grosvenor House Hotel in London last week for the ÌÇÐÄVlog Leadership and Management Awards 2015

A South West doctoral training centre’s student-run open access title is providing hands-on experience

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

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

Importance of doctoral candidates in research makes it likely that many institutions will make the change, says principal

Southampton scholar seeks collaborators for her project on the former Cuban leader

Survey finds that 46.6 per cent of academics shared family photos and information such as their favourite films or books

Study of 2,000 university students finds procrastination raises risk for engaging in academic misconduct

UK higher education round-up and highlights from the Twittersphere

Roehampton professor urges universities to examine policies and practices that are making difference invisible

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More than half of staff at university that tried to launch TeachHigher are employed on such deals

UCL-led centre aims to clarify complexity – and dispel a few myths, too

It might be wiser for research funders to make more smaller grants than to pursue policy of giving out fewer but larger awards

Refusal by John Allen to obey instruction from manager at Queen Mary University of London led to his sacking, tribunal rules

Universities raise concerns over ‘lessening autonomy’ as government sets out requirements for higher education governing bodies

Report says students in countries such as the US and Germany have an advantage because their curricula develop more statistical fluency

Respondents to Hepi poll were generally positive about the contribution of international undergraduates and lecturers to UK universities

Prize-winning physicist appointed as vice-chancellor of ANU

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

Proposals follow recommendations in independent report

Human error blamed for issue of statement detailing £12K debt

Government announces changes to how places will be allocated

Analysis by admissions service finds medicine and accountancy students emphasise career aspirations

Hundreds of incidents highlighted by international network

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

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Graduates looking and applying for jobs earlier in their degrees following fee increase

Lack of safeguards raises ‘fundamental issue of academic freedom’

'Uncertainties' following takeover of the private university mean it will not take part in talks to form group, says Regent's head

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

An investigation into a for-profit college by the UK’s quality watchdog has found that a fifth of students in a sample failed to show up to any classes at all, despite receiving public funding

Since 2003, the number of graduates from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge teaching at state schools has risen from 5,000 to 11,000

Universities celebrate at the ÌÇÐÄVlog Leadership and Management Awards

Ulster University is to cut up to 210 jobs and lose around 1,200 student places to cope with a £8 million reduction in Northern Ireland’s higher education budget

‘Buoyant market’ leads to unfilled posts

Contestant in African nation’s answer to The Apprentice wins MSc scholarship

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

UK higher education round-up and highlights from the Twittersphere

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