NSS results have little impact on university applications, study finds
Research by LSE academics shows that league tables have more impact on demand for competitive subjects
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National Mentoring Day 2015: supporting students
Chelsey Baker on how providing honest and constructive feedback can help guide students through a challenging time in their life
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?1 of knowledge exchange funding creates ?10 of benefits, Hefce says
Funding council extols virtues of 糖心Vlog Innovation Funding as spending review cuts loom
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Why the UK’s visa policy is akin to banning milk and cheese
Spanish scientist and politician Pablo Echenique on why he won’t be visiting the UK again after being thwarted from delivering a lecture by the UK visa regime
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Lisa Jardine: academics pay tribute to historian
Leading Renaissance scholar hailed as polymath and iconoclast following her death
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Regius professorships to mark Queen’s 90th birthday
Awards will recognise ‘academic excellence’ and ‘real-world impact’ of research, says universities minister
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David Cameron: ‘name-blind’ Ucas forms will address race bias
Prime minister announces 2017 change to ‘extend social mobility’
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Help poorer students to ‘navigate’ university, says Harvard professor
Robert Putnam says bursaries are only part of the solution to widening participation in the US
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From London to Mauritius: 150 years of globalised education
It was 150 years ago that the University of London teamed up with a college on an island in the Indian ocean. Sir Adrian Smith reflects on the significance of this partnership
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University strategic plans: a world of superlatives and meaningless aspiration
Claire Taylor challenges the absence of distinctiveness and diversity in an increasingly homogeneous HE landscape
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Tips for academics on blogging and social media
Scholars failing to engage with Twitter and other platforms are missing out on crucial resources
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Sixth-form colleges ‘prepare students for university better than FE’
University Campus Suffolk researchers find ‘natural progression’ into higher education is not found at every institution
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Six Degrees of Francis Bacon: a social network for early modern Britain
A new digital tool reveals exactly who was close to whom in the age of the Tudors and Stuarts
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South African tuition fee hikes cancelled after nationwide protests
President Jacob Zuma says he ‘understands the difficulty faced by students’ as demonstration also held outside South African High Commission in London
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Universities clash with watchdog over website investigation
Institutions say allegations that they do not comply with consumer protection legislation are ‘completely false’