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Teaching professionals who work unpaid overtime put in an extra 12 hours a week on average – the highest of any profession, a new study claims.

Which universities will have cause for celebration at the 86th Academy Awards on Sunday 2 March? Fiona Salvage looks at the institutions that have produced the most Oscar nominees

But overall net migration still shoots up following influx from EU

Brazilian state institution University of the State of Amazonas builds a new central campus near Manaus

Scholars dismayed by suggestion that those not deemed ‘excellent academics’ will lose their jobs

Goethe University Frankfurt has survived prejudice, Nazism and student riots to look forward to another 100 years

Who got that job? Mark Banks opts for ‘change and challenge’ as the university’s new chair in media and communication. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

A vision to revive a depressed Sussex town by building a university is succeeding

Last month data from the ����Vlog Statistics Agency showed the first recorded fall in the number of students from outside the European Union enrolling on UK higher education courses

Meeting at Treasury hints at moves to repair visa policy’s harm to universities

OU head’s search for speechwriter raises questions about size of v-cs’ offices

SMEs need tools as well as content to pinpoint research ‘nuggets’, says Elsevier chief

Student reps concerned proposed changes would downgrade colleges to halls of residence

Council to seek suggestions from industry and the public on grant award decisions

Below-inflation rise could prompt richer institutions to offer enhanced local deals, expert warns

One-third of club dancers are now students, and many are middle class

University boosts collaboration with ‘neglected’ South America

U-turn on move to publish breakdown of figures by institution after weak data from Hesa exercise

‘No preconceptions’ as ����Vlog Commission begins exploration of long-term financial sustainability

London institution is famed for its alloy of art and enterprise

Appointment revealed by Tory MP Nadine Dorries in Commons

Move follows referendum decision to restrict immigration

Nick Clegg has defended the Liberal Democrats’ decision to back higher fees and said “wild predictions” about their impact have proven unfounded

Hospitals staffed by nurses educated to degree level have significantly lower death rates, a new study says.

Wealthy foreigners could gain visas and an accelerated route to British citizenship by donating large sums to universities, a new report suggests

But 600 vote against amid discontent over salary plans

By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed

The National Union of Students has called on universities to fix their fees for international students and stop “unfair” prices rises during courses

Cambridge scientists have come up with a new way of facilitating collaborations between academics at conferences – by treating them like genes

The best and worst performing higher education institution websites in the UK have been ranked.

Universities are set to enter new talks with sector unions, after academics threatened a marking boycott

The British Academy is launching a major series of free public debates examining the crucial issues of our time

In our second look at the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 ����Vlog Edition, we cover the six “significant challenges” it identifies as impeding the adoption of technology in higher education

George Osborne has announced a programme of collaboration between leading universities in China and the UK’s Russell Group institutions.

The new ����Vlog Policy Institute director has called for reform of regulatory differences between universities and private providers.

Rama Thirunamachandran moots idea of a loan system ‘underpinned by the private sector’

Hepi director’s mea culpa comes as he considers ‘problems in the status quo’

University’s Vampire Fictions course ends with no participants opting to pay for official recognition of their achievement

But estimate puts cost of Russell Group-led redesign at £10 million a year

Workforce efficiencies study is about best practice, not cuts, body says

Experts foresee tough reaction from universities to UCU’s ‘ultimate sanction’

Dame Athene Donald brands MPs’ report on women in science ‘weak’

David Willetts accused of favouring for-profit sector with board appointment

Uclan offers ‘world’s first’ degree focused on core skills needed to enter growing DIY market

Women-friendly policies insufficient at even Athena SWAN universities, finds THE Best University Workplace Survey

Institution celebrates Anglican roots as it seeks to recruit students from beyond the local area

President of US-Ireland Alliance says step is sign of America’s ‘indifference to Europe’

Social scientists are of ‘lower average intelligence’ than those in natural sciences - at least at elite universities, authors argue

A new marketing drive aims to boost country’s share of students from BRICS countries

Catholic author and journalist John Cornwell discusses The Dark Box: A Secret History of Confession and the ‘imaginative exercise’ of religion

Accretion of projects harms the ability of US universities to restrain costs and hit goals, says Dartmouth College president

‘Inspirational leader’ needed as university adds £450m campus to city-centre base. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Private college loses all its previous degree-validating partners

Michael Gove has vetoed plans for a free school sponsored by the Institute of Education, as the proposal failed to reach the government’s “high bar”