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Research councils may have to ‘rethink’ requirements because of cuts to lower-level courses

Human rights invoked in guaranteeing female-free seminars

Queen’s Hill project cancelled after change in attitude towards overseas university branches

But law might not be on its side in its effort to prevent docking of full day’s pay, solicitor says

Food, feminism and assumptions about asylum seekers among areas explored in eight AHRC-backed projects

Cost-conscious institution rejects publisher’s ‘big deal’ on more than 1,000 journals

Long hours, job insecurity and need for mentoring noted in global survey of young scientists

Milton and Alex Mermikides’ AHRC-funded work fuses music, dance and medicine

Quality of papers rises in units led by strong researchers, study claims

Innovation in creative disciplines, high student employability and wide participation are strengths, says vice-chancellor Van Gore

University warns more savings are needed as it admits international recruitment will not recover for years

Australia’s top universities have asked to be freed from price capping for courses with the highest graduate-earning premium

A new interactive website has been launched to provide the definitive resource for studying the great 17^th-century poet and playwright Ben Jonson

Economic and Social Research Council chief executive Paul Boyle has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester

A former psychiatric nurse who is now a lecturer in creative writing has been awarded the Costa Book of the Year award for his debut novel.

Scotland’s universities are being damaged by a Westminster immigration policy that is “driven by Ukip and a nasty xenophobia”

Fraunhofer UK plans to create up to four research centres in its first five years, according to the head of the country’s first centre in Glasgow

University staff have taken part in a second two-hour strike over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer

The budget for universities in Scotland will remain almost exactly the same in cash terms in 2014-15, the Scottish Funding Council has confirmed

The number of Americans taking full undergraduate degrees in the UK has risen by almost 30 per cent in the last four years, new figures show

A Catholic college has become the UK’s newest university

Harvard comes top in the FT’s Global MBA Ranking 2014

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Queen’s and Ulster can take part in Science Foundation Ireland’s Investigators Programme

Taught postgraduate courses are facing a “perfect storm” caused by drops in student numbers and a fall in institution income

The vice-chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University is to retire at the end of the year.

George Osborne “must step back” from forcing cuts “that will cause such damage to universities”, the Universities UK president has warned.

A quarter of academics are employed on teaching-only contracts, new figures show

Thousands take part despite pay threat, UCU says

Universities face “difficulties” in planning student recruitment because of a row in government on whether to scrap funding for the poorest students.

Figures show effect of £9,000 tuition fees and relaxation of student number controls

Eminent academics restate worth of ‘knowledge for its own sake’

Head of postgraduate powerhouse Sir Peter Gregson wants to ensure doors are open to all

UEA head blames home secretary for UK’s first fall in international students

The ASA and QAA may be too passive, argues study that found misleading claims in prospectuses

Department head Philippe Froguel insists complaints of ‘bullying’ were intended to oust him from his post

Analysis critical of professor’s discovery claim is published on arXiv

Salary shoots up for Sheffield v-c while UCU strikes over 1% pay offer

Some members have branded the University and College Union’s decision to hold a series of two-hour strikes a “shameful” attempt to scale back industrial action over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer

Increasingly litigious students are consequence of consumerist nature of universities, says lawyer

New College of the Humanities plots course for growth and more investment

Students assigned an old-fashioned date by Boston College lecturer

Delayed approval from No 10 raises questions about future of role

Agency head Anthony McClaran elaborates on what the role will entail. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

The government wants academics to do more to help get young people into work

£10 million scheme set up to counteract disincentivisation of undergraduate debt for potential researchers

V-c acknowledges ‘agonising’ decision faced by staff over two-hour walkout

Vince Cable has told MPs he agrees that scrapping student opportunity funding would “most impact” groups such as low-income and disabled students.

David Richardson is to become vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia when present incumbent Edward Acton retires in September

Edward Snowden is standing to become the next rector for the University of Glasgow.

Several universities are threatening to deduct a full day’s pay for anyone taking part in a two-hour walkout, a union has claimed

The Natural Environment Research Council would not contemplate fully privatising its centres, its chief executive has pledged

The University of Cumbria has become the first UK institution to accept Bitcoin for the payment of tuition fees

A former private secretary to Tony Blair is to take over as head of a Catholic university college