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Life sciences ecosystem may lose out if US firm was ever to take over Anglo-Swedish pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca

Tim Draycott, who led the development of the PROMPT course, on the fellowship that gave him three years’ precious thinking time. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Courses with ‘de facto’ accreditation might address frustration at lack of graduates’ skills, minister says

Poll reveals a cut in fees and more hours of teaching top student wishlist

Petition to oust head follows Twitter hoax set up in her name

The amount of research council funding universities receive has increased in real terms by about half since 2002-03, according to a new report

Welsh Assembly committee says institutions should receive minimum award regardless of quantity of world-class research

Private providers should be monitored more closely to ensure they are delivering similar quality to universities, a mission group has argued.

Students’ hours of study can vary by up to 25 hours a week depending on their course, a survey of undergraduates has found.

There are fears that new higher education legislation in Wales could make universities subject to “micro-management” by the Cardiff government.

The Russell Group will spend £9 billion on capital projects over five years, “comparable” to the UK’s spend on hosting the Olympics, a report claims

Scott Jaschik writes for on a row that has captivated Canadian higher education

Open letter from UUK board members points to research funding and mobility as being ‘central’ to success

A climate scientist has distanced himself from newspaper suggestions that his paper on global warming was rejected by a journal for political reasons

Proposal prompts resignation of advisory board chair

The chief executive of the National Union of Students has left the organisation after less than a year in charge

Claims and counterclaims fly over group that monitors extremist speakers

Most universities in the UK and the US now have a presence on Twitter, but which institutions can claim to be using the micro-blogging social network most effectively?

A committee of MPs has written to David Willetts over the potential risks to UK science of the proposed takeover of AstraZeneca by US giant Pfizer.

Too many policy experts look to the US and Australia as “some higher education funding nirvana”, according to the vice-chancellor who chairs Million+.

Lecturer’s contract not renewed after he set up out-of-hours module to broaden curriculum

Small increase in fundraising staff prompts questions over sector’s ability to meet £2 billion target by 2022

Consumer legislation will provide tools to ‘whack’ universities, Westminster ����Vlog Forum hears

Signatories commit to greater transparency to assuage public concerns

Study proposes code of practice for recruitment firms to help address inequality

Contract lecturers down tools in protest over pay ‘that does not reflect hours worked’

Universities are working hard and succeeding in their aim to improve life for their students, as ����Vlog’s Student Experience Survey results show

UCU branch ‘strongly opposes’ changing scope of statute

Union threatens action over subtraction of a day’s pay for a two-hour walkout

The former Soviet satellite is working to raise standards and to court foreign students

Universities could be allowed to seek cash without asking funding council’s permission

Senior scholar says his filmed 5-minute debates may expose the “tensions and contradictions’ in academics’ work

Academic proposes biomedical public-private partnerships to protect the ‘R&D ecosystem’ from commercial affairs

University’s 10-week project featured talk by Michael Berlin on First World War conscientious objectors

A Wales-funded public policy institute is to supply evidence to policymakers and create an ‘innovation culture’

Universitas 21 grading introduces new measure of purchasing power

Study reveals challenges for US universities seeking alliances in Argentina, Brazil and Chile

Behind the scenes at science plays: the writers, their intentions and what they achieve

The research funder is seeking a head for its new science strategy department. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

The proportion of capital investment that universities financed using internal funds has leaped 20 per cent over the past four years, according to data released by the ����Vlog Statistics Agency

Although tuition charges emerge as most important factor for international students in Hobsons survey

But animal rights group criticises move for not going far enough

The UK’s social mobility debate is too narrowly focused on a “small number of elite universities” and needs to be “dragged out of the 1970s”.

But Cable warns that intervention options are constrained by law

Australia is to remove all caps on tuition fees, a move billed as allowing its universities to compete with “the best in the world”.

A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.

By Colleen Flaherty, for

The impact of transnational higher education on host nations is mainly positive, although more could be done to raise awareness among students.

A vice-chancellor has made an impassioned defence of the benefits to universities of European Union membership amid the rise in popularity of Ukip.

The government has launched a campaign to attract more women into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths.

An academic best known for his attempt to land a spacecraft on Mars has died aged 70.

Poor levels of financial support will ‘force women to return to work too quickly’