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Scholars join strippers to discuss artistic responses to online pornography

Opprobrium for two-year extension to medical courses

Revamped IT systems are ready for admissions deluge, states Mary Curnock Cook

Low rents, cheaper fees and lack of construction ideal combination

As junta’s grip relaxes, Aung San Suu Kyi joins drive to rebuild sector

Lecturer was told he had ‘no future’ at Aberdeen if he continued battle

Coventry University’s Madeleine Atkins emerges triumphant from a ‘strong field’ of candidates

Savings are expected to surpass government goal

£5,000 each for 21 projects

Funding for research undertaken in UK higher education has risen by 86 per cent in real terms since 1995, data from the National Audit Office show

Report calls for a more ‘transparent and inclusive’ structure, but scientists await council’s response

Research councils face criticism over decision to allow advisers to submit applications

Participants in Edinburgh Napier study did better than expected

Sector may lose places after new inspection regime reports dip in standards

Leadership Foundation head discusses major priority on his watch

The notebooks of Lieutenant William Dawes (1762-1836), part of the special collections at Soas, University of London, are a major source of information about one of the many indigenous languages of Australia

Young academics quit their day jobs to document alternative higher education projects around the world

University of Southampton collegium gathers promising scholars to collaborate on coastal eco-cities project

The Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine has been officially designated as a higher education institution.

The UK funding councils have narrowed the scope of their proposed open access mandate for the post-2014 research excellence framework.

A greater proportion of Asian and black state-school pupils are entering higher education than their white peers, according to data released today

A blog circulated to students by the commercial arm of the Ucas has been accused of using negative sexist stereotypes.

The ����Vlog Office has confirmed it will be rolling out a £8,000 premium visa service for institutions from today.

The University of East London has appointed a new vice-chancellor following several high-profile departures around the beginning of this year

A £30 million investment in research and innovation campuses from the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) has been unveiled.

The proportion of 18 year olds applying for non-European language degrees has fallen by more than a third in three years, according to new research

Only one in five students will take a TV to university, with most relying on their laptop or smartphone to view programmes, a new survey shows

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A strike ballot is opening at the University of Liverpool over plans to force about 2,800 non-academic staff to accept revised terms and conditions

A new index benchmarking the websites of higher education providers by functionality, accessibility and compliance with standards has been released.

A former Labour minister has called for an increase in public spending on higher education to close the “international competitive gap”.

The Royal Institution has scrapped efforts to ask academics to sign an agreement if they want to use its trademarked term “Christmas Lectures”.

Academic and student unions north of the border have again condemned a new code of governance for Scottish universities as “vague” and “meaningless”.

More than 40 universities are to receive money in the latest round of a scheme to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.

V-c warns of credit crunch over funding plan

Plans were abandoned only after ‘extensive negotiations’ with union

Sarah Thomas leaves Oxford’s Bodleian Library to take up vice-president post at Harvard Library

British Academy’s new president demands clarity and humility

University criticised for ‘unreasonable’ stance over data-transfer error

Planned outpost at Queen’s Hill uncertain after concerns over land use protest

Interviews begin for chief executive post: will a woman get the nod at last?

Newest union member will apply national and European resources to improve qualifications, access and research

Minerva aims to reinvent the university as a global experience of ‘Ivy League’ education

Parents and students in line for rude awakening

Citations could replace peer review in sciences, study concludes

Prepare for some Darwin-on-Mendel action: it’s the ‘exam howlers’ 2013

‘Big community’ yet to be reached by prestigious programme, study finds

Recruiters doubt comparability of degree results

Critics doubt legality of regulatory framework’s disciplinary powers

A library-focused effort aims to take monographs off the analogue shelf

But NUS says commercial loans are not the answer to ‘crisis’

The situation of the lettori - the British and other foreign lecturers working in Italian universities - has been dealt a blow by a new court ruling.