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Government grant letter delivers cut to university funding

The government has delivered a £125 million cut to higher education funding in today’s grant letter, while criticising vice-chancellors on pay

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The ����Vlog Office has suspended an organisation’s English language tests for immigration purposes after cheating was allegedly uncovered on some exams.

Sunderland v-c to become university’s president

The vice-chancellor of the University of Sunderland is to take up the newly created role of president

Institute of Physics publishing arm in Austrian open access deal

Hope that ‘pioneering’ project could help solve gold problems

Former Laureate vice-president to take helm at University of Law

An ex vice-president at US higher education company Laureate will take charge of the University of Law, following its sale to a private equity firm

Hefce calls emergency meeting amid further grant letter wrangling

England’s funding council has been forced to abandon plans to examine a draft of the grant letter due to continued budget battles within government

Students on Glyndwr-LSBF course to undergo immigration checks

‘Future teaching’ to take place at Welsh university’s London campus

Government to put pressure on other countries over animal research

The government aims to use the high status of UK science to put pressure on other countries to reduce their reliance on animal research.

6 trends that will accelerate the adoption of technology in higher education in 2014

We take a look at the six “key trends” picked out in the NMC Horizon Report: 2014 ����Vlog Edition

Eric Thomas to retire as Bristol v-c next year

Sir Eric Thomas is to retire as University of Bristol vice-chancellor after 14 years in the role.

University staff to strike for whole day over pay deductions

Staff at 11 higher education institutions are to walk out for a whole day in a protest of what they believe is “unlawfully deducted” pay.

Access strategies postponed due to grant letter delay

Suggestion that wrangle over Access to Learning Fund is now delaying letter

University staff strike again as next pay round approaches

University staff have walked out for the fifth time over this year’s “miserly” 1 per cent pay offer.

THE podcast: 6 February 2014 issue review

Download the podcastStudent loan money going to private colleges, the rankings success of Caltech, the problem of gender inequality in science and our interview with Queen Mary University of London...