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Students from poor families should pay tuition fees of only £3,000 a year, according to the chair of the Independent Commission on Fees

A UK shortage of digital skills has reached a “tipping point” and universities are not doing enough to address the crisis, a House of Lords report warns

A study has found no evidence that higher tuition fees affect student mental health in the long term

By Paul Fain, for

An organisation with more than 200 US university members has formally urged the federal government to ditch plans for a college ratings system

A proposed new “world-class” university for Hereford will focus on engineering and has former Oxford vice-chancellor Sir John Hood as senior adviser

By Scott Jaschik, for

Official guidance for universities on how to support students with mental health problems has been updated

The University of Warwick is to develop a campus in California, with the goal of growing to 6,000 students by 2031

The , which many academics fear will suppress freedom of speech in universities, has received Royal Assent.

The next government should create a new lead regulator, the Council for ����Vlog England, and toughen rules for private providers

Higher education institutions are redefining the role of museums and galleries as cultural providers, as Ian Wylie reports

Sector challenged to share data on REF costs and come up with less ‘disingenuous’ figure than official estimates

Successful programme ‘jeopardised’ by ministry changes

Malcolm Gillies’ £453K final-year payment may make him last year’s highest paid vice-chancellor

NUS survey reveals extent of the fallout after the ����Vlog Office ended visa sponsorship at 65 private colleges

Cut in support for private study has share prices falling

FoI request finds that £132m is still outstanding despite a fall in total overpayments

Start-up aims to sidestep big pharmaceutical firms by developing its lab discoveries inside the university’s walls. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Academic’s ‘formidable expertise and knowledge’ and ‘unique voice’ remembered

With the recruitment cap lifting, accommodation is a hot issue

UUK letter disparaging policy ‘compromises ability to influence party’s thinking’

Madeleine Atkins says student opportunity funding ‘will go’ unless government can see a ‘return on investment’

CoLab project is putting a new twist on art forms

The employment rate among young people graduating in the UK is higher than that of the US, Australia and Japan, according to a report by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development

Soas conference discusses building a network of groups fighting for fair pay and conditions for casual teaching staff

Glasgow Caledonian to reduce financial and other backing for work that falls outside three ‘societal challenges’

George Freeman says public will back government’s ‘brave decision’ to open up healthcare records to medical research

Viral Thakerar dissatisfied with an OIA judgement restricted by university’s destruction of relevant exam documents

The UK’s capital is the most searched city by US students looking to study abroad, a new analysis shows

Funding of £3.2 million has been awarded to eight major new Anglo-Israeli research collaborations in regenerative medicine 

Wikipedia is now an embedded feature of most students’ study and universities must do more to help them to utilise the user-generated encyclopaedia

A future government should avoid pitching ‘complementary’ teaching and research funding against each other if it wants to boost higher education

The battle to protect academic freedom in the government’s counter-terrorism bill appears to be nearing a conclusion after final amendments were agreed

Women in higher education in South Asia are not being identified and prepared for leadership roles in universities, a new report suggests

Tributes made to eminent professor of higher education, former Brighton v-c and head of Oxford college

A teacher education system based on “ideologies or prejudices” will hinder those wanting to improve standards, a conference has heard

A night-time safety campaign has been launched by Durham University after three students died in the River Wear in the space of 14 months

A London comprehensive is to offer a degree to encourage more students to pursue higher education and a career in teaching

The government has reversed a decision to offer extra teacher training places to schools at the expense of universities

Hefce chief Madeleine Atkins also says counter-terror role for funding council was ‘gift not asked for’

Peers also slam government figure on student terrorists used to persuade Lords of need for new laws

Minister also uses Hefce speech to draw comparisons with Labour over HE funding

Many universities are using “unlawful” terms allowing them to make “unfair” changes to courses midway through a degree, a consumer watchdog has said

The next parliament is likely to include a disproportionately high number of MPs who graduated from Oxbridge, new research suggests.

Move described as ‘early job application’ for council to be chief regulator after the election

Left impugns tactics in Universities Superannuation Scheme dispute but negotiators claim improvements were achieved

Report into ESRC network recommends careful monitoring before next stage

HEA study offers tips drawn from first-hand accounts of both participants and course creators. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Aberystwyth University will run voluntary severance scheme despite having already spent millions on restructuring

31 per cent of scholars think international students’ English skills are not up to scratch

Polina Bayvel of University College London says investment strategy missed the transformative potential of communications technologies

Compilers of a league table say fear of offending students has gone too far

Chief scientific adviser is ‘amused’ by funding conspiracy theories but dismisses them as ‘complete invention’

‘Culture change’ needed to avoid job losses

Writing may be on the wall for Department for Business, Innovation and Skills, according to policy thinktanks