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The director of Soas, University of London, is to step down from his position this year owing to ill health

Russia’s Tomsk State University is banking on the region’s natural assets and an English language push to attract foreign students and scholars

Letter urges university staff to reject new pensions offer and renew strike action, despite warnings that success is unlikely

Geoffrey Crossick, author of the report ‘Monographs and Open Access’, argues that the format is resilient but must embrace open access

Submission patterns reveal how institutions responded to rules

Recommendation in report on teacher training appeared to downgrade the value of postgraduate qualifications

Academics seek to determine role of Sir Mark Walport after announcement of Nurse review of research councils

Endorsement comes after ministers are accused by Labour of misleading Parliament

Angela Constance urges universities to take the lead on access as she decries principals’ pay rises and confirms talks on post-study work visa

A comparison of student-to-staff ratios and spending per student across Europe

Liberal Democrat Julian Huppert decries ‘illiberal’ campuses and ‘selfish’ calls by v-cs to raise tuition fees

Journal prices could rise further if Springer-Macmillan deal goes ahead, some fear

‘Institution level’ designation granted to ifs University College in August makes it first to win the status since 2006

Learning to accept ‘good enough’ as a benchmark can help academics escape a writing rut. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Lecturer agrees an out-of-court settlement after the UCU sought to reclaim its legal costs

Universities denied extra places in favour of schools and SCITTs

Former AAUP head and others aim to sway ‘non-fanatical’ supporters of sanctions with The Case against Academic Boycotts of Israel

Local residents won’t be forgotten amid expansion to boost student experience and strategic research areas, says Anton Muscatelli

University says there are ‘lessons to be learned’ from professor’s tribunal

Professor’s dream as a student is realised as library launches first five volumes in bilingual series

Nothing is out of bounds when it comes to higher education, it seems – with the launch of Scotland’s first degree in professional golf

The University of Sussex should not have suspended four students after a protest and should pay compensation, the sector’s complaints body has found

Figures also show 23 per cent of students now enter HE with BTECs

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First global health research ranking suggests only five UK institutions make major investment   

Academics in Saudi Arabia have been urged in an open letter signed by 18 Nobel Prize winners to condemn the public flogging of blogger Raif Badawi

Medical students must learn to think critically, an academic physician who became the first professor of complementary medicine has warned.

A student at the University of Kent has been named as the Green Party’s spokesman for higher and further education

The University of Bedfordshire has become the second higher education institution in the UK to commit to not investing in the fossil fuel industry

Plans to rebrand itself as ‘King’s London’ have been dropped, principal has confirmed

But report also angers some in HE over PGCE comments

The performance of the whole European research system could be harmed if changes to EU budgets go ahead, it has been warned.

The UK is ranked fifth among the world’s most developed nations for the number of young people with higher education, after rapid progress since 2000

Britain’s research libraries can do far more to help their “unique” collections serve the needs of scholars, their universities and communities

Employers should have more of a say in the design and delivery of the curriculum at universities in order to produce “work-ready” graduates

The head of Ucas has urged universities to “move quickly” and make clear how they intend to ensure fair admissions in the light of A-level reforms

Labour leader also pledges to say more on HE policy ‘by time of manifesto’

U-turn follows Hefce pledge to underwrite inclusion

Science and universities minister says more must be done on issue

University staff will not resume a marking boycott this week after employers put forward amended plans to reform the sector’s biggest pension scheme

Three of the UK’s funding bodies want to “re-test assumptions” about the importance of comparability of standards across the sector’s institutions

Find out which institution’s graduates are earning the most money

The publisher of Nature is to merge with the world’s second largest science publisher, Springer

The number of students awarded a first-class degree soared by 14 per cent last year.

Part-time student numbers have continued a dramatic decline after falling by 8 per cent last year, new figures show

Most admissions staff believe achievements outside the classroom are more important to gaining a university place than 10 years ago, a new study says

The vice-chancellor of Sheffield Hallam University, Philip Jones, has announced that he is to retire next spring

Nanyang Technological University president’s claim that tenure dispute was ‘not political’ contested by ex-faculty member Cherian George

Scrutiny of Swansea dean’s communications follows latest email furore

UK universities claim 10 spots in annual survey of gay-friendly workplaces

Majority of workplace slights informed by your place in the academic pecking order, study finds

Three-year programmes challenge the supremacy of Scotland’s ‘gold standard’

Women on academic contracts earn £8,400 less than men, according to Equal Pay Review 2014, but the gap has closed by £110 since 2012

Report advises young academics to foster personal and research independence to advance their careers. Plus the latest higher education appointments

FoI request reveals former vice-chancellor returned after suspension on full pay despite diminished powers