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Experts in everything from accountancy to China and spirituality to skills strategies appointed fellows by the Academy of Social Sciences

Pat Thomson identifies five abiding fears that prey on the scholarly mind

Heather Mendick shares her experience of escaping the constraints of the university

No more than 75 per cent of a discipline’s students should be of the same gender, says funding council

Higher education institutions are ready to do their bit but are being held back, say Maureen Glackin and Claire Taylor

King’s College London professor of education and social justice will be first woman to lead IoE

Luna Centifanti on the important role that emotions play in our ability to assimilate knowledge

Damning report condemns government for not reaching recruitment target in past four years

A Glasgow student has returned to his native city of Duhok in Iraqi Kurdistan inspired to embrace the ideals of a ‘learning city’

Dispute over British Journal of Educational Technology prompts resignations among editorial team

Even academics in ‘safe’ positions are feeling insecure

A Welsh town’s Boiz, Geeks and Emos are in urgent need of new scripts, finds John Field

Machiavellian tactics used by university leaders and their minions are often viewed as malevolent, but they are vital to running an organisation, says new study

Acting director of new research centre set up with Lego Foundation money says aim will be to explore whether there really is evidence that play enhances education

Study finds that, while senior academics tend to have the most followers on social networking site, the most junior researchers are not far behind

‘Very disappointing’ provider inspection triggers education minister to overhaul system

Questions have been raised about the source of data used by Downing Street to accuse institutions of hosting hate preachers

Kenn Nakata Steffensen takes an in-depth look at the challenges facing Japan’s public universities

Theses in open-access repository at Dublin City University have been downloaded almost 1.4 million times

Continent’s youthful population will soon require many more university places, with high numbers likely to study outside their home country

International students accounted for over two-thirds of the growth in enrolments in past decade, says study

Report author says ITT is fundamentally ‘a university matter’

Transition to ‘make-or-break’ stage for female academics is a significant challenge, study explains

Digital learning may be the future, but the present is more uncertain, says  Sandra Leaton Gray

University of Hull demonstrates pedagogical potential of world-building game

Prospective students more likely to base decision on prospectuses, institutions’ websites and campus visits, survey suggests

Warwick study highlights high dropout rate and queries social mobility benefits

Initial teacher training chief moves to the Ministry of Justice

Sir Keith Burnett considers the challenges of introducing a teaching excellence framework

Study finds that students choose to major in subjects that are ‘more challenging’ in bad economic times

Institute of Education director to replace Philip Jones in January 2016

Research shows female ITT leaders having to 'reinvent' themselves to survive in a more marketised landscape

Proposals follow recommendations in independent report

Government announces changes to how places will be allocated

Since 2003, the number of graduates from the universities of Oxford and Cambridge teaching at state schools has risen from 5,000 to 11,000

The University of Cambridge has plans to establish a “LEGO professorship of play in education, development and learning” alongside a research centre, with £4 million of donations from the LEGO Foundation.

Caught between two cultures, six teenagers turn to Arabic to feel at home, finds Mafruha Mohua

Kathryn Ecclestone on a study examining the underside of the new fixation on inner feelings

The use of gadgets to help students is only as effective as the pedagogical methods employed, finds Steve Wheeler

Helen Keegan on a compelling account of the potential harms from intended and unintended self-disclosure

Resisting sexual temptation is one thing, forgoing sweets another. Natalie Gold on a study of restraint

A lack of disciplinary expertise in digital cultures undermines this study, finds Tara Brabazon

Social dynamics that affect elite US students are indicative of a broader trend, finds Julie J. Park

Tara Brabazon on an attempt to capture and express the voice of young people

Deborah Rogers on the Tiger Mother’s new polemic

Hazel Christie relishes a polished and powerful narrative that explains how memory works

John Field is captivated by personal battles against educational disadvantage and illiteracy in marginalised communities

Sandra Leaton Gray on healthier options for e-junkies

Simon Underdown on a key battle between science and religion

Sandra Leaton Gray on inequality in access to higher education in the US as a result of class

Anthony Feiler reviews a concise explanation of how the UK education system works and how it evolved