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Research council hopes to claw back cash to fund centres that missed out during initial bidding process

UCU fears more support staff will be forced out to cover REF recruitment costs

Idea of borrowing to study is ‘totally alien’ to some students, so take-up may be low

Student leaders criticised over perceived failure to support grass-roots members joining in demonstrations

Expert points to lecturers’ low qualification levels

Publishing arm aims to disseminate research and ease budgetary pressures

Newcastle v-c gives international students the full flavour of a British Christmas

Reading v-c condemns Autumn Statement announcement as a purely political move

Participation widens, but questions may be asked over falling entry requirements

School Direct scheme diverts funding and input from university education departments

Border states a key battleground as the struggle for international income intensifies

Global competition prompts easing of curbs on commissions to student recruiters

The items shown here are all owned by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and are among the objects that appear in its online interactive 2013 seasonal calendar, with audio recordings and podcasts

Hepi head and HE analyst tell MPs that coalition sums don’t add up

The European Commission has announced the new president of the European Research Council.

The government’s plan to finance extra student places by the future sale of student loans is like a Ponzi scheme, according to a thinktank.

It is “perfectly possible” to fund the government’s plan to abolish the by selling off graduate debt, David Willetts has claimed.

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The Treasury has funded a £15 million pilot project to establish three to four University Enterprise Zones in England.

A leading activist has called on the academic community to do far more “to help promote and defend human rights”.

Controversial passage removed pending review as prime minister intervenes

Nobel laureate Randy Schekman has pledged to stop publishing in “luxury journals”, which he believes contribute to the “disfigurement” of science.

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The government’s plan to fund extra student numbers by selling loans omits billions of pounds in lost repayments, the chancellor has admitted.

Universities UK has published legal advice which backs its controversial guidance on the segregation of men and women at campus events.

The government’s claim it can fully fund extra student places by selling loans is “wrong”, according to the MP in charge of examining public accounts.

Institution’s 12-month embargo is probably ‘in breach’ of ICO guidelines. David Matthews reports

Russell Group critical of abolition of student numbers cap

Oxford scholar says discipline can play vital role in meeting biggest challenges

Two university leaders forgo increases as tensions over staff wage offer continue

Judgment is a key development in student athletes’ bid to claim a cut of billion-dollar college sports

Engineering body fears impact of post-16 maths and English workload

Following student protests, government mulls a sector report calling for change. Cyrille Cartier writes

Matthew Reisz talks to the master of Oxford hall and ‘place of inter-religious encounter’

The European Union officially adopted Horizon 2020 on 3 December 2013

Industry and funders still back blue-skies thinking, doctoral conference hears

Academics and students unite in condemnation of ‘violent’ crackdown on sit-ins and demonstrations

Judgment says university ‘inadequately investigated’ misconduct case

Legislation a must after scrapping of student quotas

Survey indicates need for fresh ways to measure engagement with industry

The diagram showing the flow of blood in the forearm is taken from William Harvey’s De Motu Cordis (1628), a pioneering exposition of how blood circulates around the body

As long as applicants fulfil language, qualifications and maintenance criteria, ‘they are welcome’, says BIS spokeswoman

How big a role did scholars play in abolition of heinous system?

Admissions standards have fallen to balance budgets, Adelaide chief argues

The Treasury’s stated plan to fund expansion in student places by the sale of loans omits £1.7 billion in lost repayments arising from the sell off.

Sir Adrian Smith suggests protesters wanted police involved to generate ‘headlines’

A list of recommendations on improving management of animal research at Imperial College London should “resonate” across the UK, their authors say

Shadow universities minister delivers vision for sector in first major speech

More than 1,200 people have signed a petition against a ban on protesting at the University of London

More than £25 million has been awarded by England’s funding council to 20 pilot projects designed to support postgraduate students.

Universities are to work with the government to appoint Muslim chaplains to “challenge extremist views” on campus.