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Better university grievance processes may be behind the drop in adjudicator’s caseload

Panel speakers fear v-cs’ silence presages a lack of pre-election policy debate

Universities UK warns that new funding models may create ‘significant financial risk’ for institutions

Exeter staff bristle at proposed change to teaching timetable to include 9pm finish

Scholar Siân Lindsay’s research on doctoral completion has yielded valuable insights and practical advice

16-member Global Academy of Liberal Arts aims to help reassert value of non-STEM study

‘Draconian’ idea to pool universities’ financial resources to rescue failing institutions abandoned

Seminar on strategies to tackle parlous state of discipline in UK told to note recent recovery of Classics

Offering courses without credit afforded City University London more flexibility

Standards watchdog calls on universities to beware misleading students about overseas facilities

Tales of activism and optimism and an eminent scholar’s defence of the humanities aired at Living With the Cuts conference

The head of the online academic social network discusses open goals and communal joys

New mobile app helps a Cambridge press offer free digital monographs even to those without computers

Federal minister blames Catalonia for payment delays in reformed student-aid system

Peter Dobson, former leader of Begbroke Science Park, lays out frustrations with university

Thrill-seekers or pioneers? Scholars operating close to legal boundaries attract both labels

Police have carried out a controlled explosion after finding “suspicious items” in a Newcastle University building.

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Just 17 per cent of employers recruit directly from business schools when hiring first-time managers, a new survey has revealed

A cross-party group of MPs is keeping a “close eye” on the development of the multi-million pound Francis Crick Institute

A “magic carpet” that protects the elderly from falls and clothing that detects cancer risk among ground-breaking higher education research projects

Universities and science minister David Willetts has announced a £48 million investment in biomedical research.

Libby Hackett is to leave the University Alliance after five years as its chief executive

Brazil will aim to be spend 10 per cent of GDP on education within a decade after a national plan was passed by the country’s main legislature.

DfE report suggests grammar schools appear not to have huge influence on HE path once background taken into account

Which major cities have the best universities, and the most university-educated citizens?

Around 5 per cent of US university presidents hold a permit to carry a concealed handgun, according to a survey of 401 college leaders.

Heritage Lottery Fund scheme to support trainee archivists on work and study programme. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Lawyers achieve goal but Coventry academic still linked to second publication on ‘blacklist’

Packages vary widely with 10 universities offering new fathers only two weeks’ statutory pay

For-profit firms eye tie-ups with regional institutions ‘desperate’ to boost international intake

The amount of time that students spend in class and studying alone each week on average has increased over the past eight years

UCU congress approves plan to send information-gathering group but cost and safety concerns are raised

Higher education committee censured as call to launch tougher actions against employers is passed at UCU congress

Motion to allow staff at better-off institutions to arrange extra pay voted down at UCU congress

Union warns of negative consequences of ‘radical’ budgetary oversight and professorial pay reforms sent to Senate

New UCL professor Graeme Reid, formerly BIS’ head of research funding, points to public support for science investment

Up to 120 positions to be lost across three health schools

Emulate US institutions’ efforts to ‘shape lifelong donors’ while they are still undergraduates, Case report says

UCS is finalising plans to become a fully fledged university

Unesco report suggests that institutions’ research ‘does not yield large financial payoffs’

Editorial board of journal could quit after debate on publishing suffers delay

Matthew Reisz talks to Sunaina Maira, editor of The Imperial University: Academic Repression and Scholarly Dissent

It is possible to measure the quality of university teaching in a useful way, argues Graham Gibbs

Learn Chile project launched to attract students from abroad

No victimisation, tribunal rules, in Unison official’s case against the university

The National Union of Students is to hold a national day of action on June 6 against plans to cut support for students with disabilities

FoI request by BBC suggests 10 per cent spike in complaints to universities

Around 60 University of Oxford academics have used an open letter to demand the institution stops investing in fossil fuel companies.

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Lord Giddens joins nine students and a fox in teaching experiment

Thirty universities have joined the national trial of a new race equality initiative.

An independent Scotland would reintroduce post-study work visas and ease restrictions on overseas students, the Scottish National Party has pledged

Call from Labour shadow universities minister follows series of revelations