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A team at the Uppsala University Library is working to crack the code for digitising handwritten text

Applications suspended until audit of processes and guidance is complete

Study led by Angela Dobele of RMIT finds there is no consensus on the value of a paper in 32 per cent of cases

The graduate earnings premium has fallen over the past nine years, new data suggest

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

Universities must address campus ‘drink culture’, whose consequences are reflected in adjudicator’s caseload, says Rob Behrens

Paper addresses ‘stark under-representation’ of black and minority ethnic staff in university senior management

About 10 per cent of admissions staff say their university offers places over the phone on predicted grades alone, UCU survey finds

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

Higher education news from around the globe

There’s little help on offer for those making their first formal review of a PhD candidate and thesis, but Pam Denicolo has some useful pointers

An Elsevier analysis explores the viability of a ‘smarter and cheaper’ model

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Irish regulator warns of potential threat of QAA’s move to risk-based review system

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

Legislation leaves door open to have elections for governing body chairs

University lecturers can learn how to teach creativity by looking at innovative practice found in art colleges and music schools, claims education expert

Efforts to reject a consumerist approach to higher education are undermined by unions’ own reliance on money-making activities, a new study claims

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

Applications from Russell Group graduates – who are more likely to be from wealthy backgrounds – have a better chance of success, commission says

The pressure to publish high-profile papers may not be linked to research misconduct, a new study has found.

More than half of female students reading science subjects at the University of Bristol said that they have felt uncomfortable at the institution because of their gender

A number of vice-chancellors, prominent academics and other higher education figures have been recognised in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

The government will not halt its planned changes to Disabled Students’ Allowances as they will “improve the levels of support overall” for students, according to Jo Johnson

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.

John Hennessy has announced plans to step down as president of Stanford University in summer 2016, after leading the institution for more than 15 years

Nobel laureate Sir Tim Hunt has resigned from his position on a Royal Society committee as well as an honorary UCL professorship

The University of Cambridge has plans to establish a “LEGO professorship of play in education, development and learning” alongside a research centre, with £4 million of donations from the LEGO Foundation.

Female scientists have joined others in responding to Nobel laureate’s comments about the “trouble with girls” in labs.

Additional support for part-time undergraduates also under consideration

Fifty-five people working in universities have been named as the latest winners of the sector’s top honour for teaching and learning

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

Inaugural campaign to diversify income streams kicks off with £5m donation for pioneering research centre

UK higher education round-up and highlights from the Twittersphere

When grant managers provide specialised input, approval rates rise, study finds

International alumni outreach efforts are on the rise as institutions expand fundraising horizons

Premiere of work based on 16 frank interviews with vice-chancellors and the chair of governors

University of Leicester head tells ARMA conference that the start of research careers and early work needs support

Higher education news from around the globe

Scottish institution strengthens its identity as a centre for singing and languages with pioneering new course

As the gender equality charter mark prepares to celebrate its 10th anniversary, it looks to partner with a local agency in Australia

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

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Improving partnerships with overseas universities is seen as the biggest challenge facing internationalisation staff in European universities, according to research

Sub-Saharan universities must adapt to the shifting career aims of their future graduates, study suggests

UK Mooc platform adds new partners after admitting that using global rankings as a proxy for quality ‘hides a lot of detail’

Chancellor Nicholas Dirks explains the university’s branch campus strategy

FoI request reveals which institutions have targets of some sort after the suicide last year of a professor at Imperial College London

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

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Research can have unpredictable results, but some advance planning will make proving its value much easier

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

Japan still ‘king of the mountain’ but balance of power shifts to neighbour

The UK’s only national humanities research festival has announced funding awards to 41 universities and cultural organisations

A Nobel Prize-winning fellow of the Royal Society has apologised after saying he was in favour of single sex laboratories.

But new report reveals that the president was not the highest-paid person on campus at more than half of institutions

Former postdoctoral researchers will now be counted as alumni at the University of Cambridge