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Images of pineapples can be found all over Wolfson College, Cambridge

Institution follows Bath and offers another worrying lesson for teacher training

Review rejects MPs’ criticisms of gaps in its data

Geoffrey Alderman offers to supervise critic’s doctorate

The gender make-up of the student population in different subject areas has been highlighted in a Department for Education report

Sally Mapstone throws her weight behind calls to move beyond £9,000 fees cap

The Economics of Higher Education network aims to highlight neglected areas of economic research on the sector

UKCAT study chimes with Hefce research on contextual admissions

Press offices attempt news management via popular data source

London partners unhappy as university scraps ‘unfit for purpose’ model

New shadow wants ‘much stronger paths’ between sectors, conference hears

David Willetts has confirmed that public spending on students at private providers trebled this year.

For the first time the Office for National Statistics has broken down its data on graduates by whether or not they went to a Russell Group university.

A clear winner emerges following a vote by the ̽����Ƶ editorial team

Welsh education minister says time to ‘take stock’ of Cardiff policy

Students’ unhappiness with the number of contact hours they get at university has been detailed in a new report

‘Resurrecting the Book’ conference hears support for printed word

A formal body should be set up to coordinate efforts to implement open access, the Finch Group has recommended.

Film shows how Indian students successfully navigated the process

Report pays tribute to museums big and small

Firm will detail effectiveness of its courses by auditing products

A students’ union has expressed its anger after a police officer was apparently caught on camera trying to recruit an activist to spy on students

The vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University has announced he is to retire next year.

The Green Party is organising protests across the country against plans to sell off the student loan book.

If we were to choose an official global university capital, which cities would be in the running? The following 18 would certainly be in with a shout

The battle over plans to close the University of London Union has seen its president, Michael Chessum, arrested.

Academics taken aback by consequences of coalition policy

The number of postgraduates applying for career development loans fell by 43 per cent between 2011-12 and 2012-13

Initiatives must reach out to wider audience with success stories and ‘risk-taking’, according to Graeme Atherton

Research councils show value of restraint

Effort to improve quantitative skills in social sciences must go farther, John MacInnes says

Australia’s universities don’t consider data burden for ‘traffic light’ reports to be excessive, forum hears

Scrapped mission group was close to high-profile rebrand

Private universities will keep US system ahead of Asia for decades yet, conference hears

London research giant attributes success to interdisciplinary approach

Some firms want only the ‘people their sons and daughters go to school with’

UCU protests over sacking of free speech champion

Victim of harassment calls for changes in light of jail term for Queen’s academic

Symposium considers drawing’s role in refining and communicating knowledge, from geology to surgery to unicorns

Feargal Sharkey tells GuildHE conference of hits, myths and the cost of ‘free’ in the Mooc era

Vocational courses are the latest focus of government investment

Losing on the political stage has prompted public intellectual to change how he teaches

Vince Cable has criticised the “qualification inflation” that means entrants to “very standard” professions such as nursing require a degree.

The Open University is to withdraw its postgraduate teacher training programme after its January and March 2014 intakes.

At least a quarter of the “access gap” for “top” universities in three countries cannot be explained by academic achievement, a new report says

The immigration minister has accused universities of creating “a self-fulfilling prophecy for bad news” on student visas

A second university has threatened academics with a loss of pay over working to rule, ̽����Ƶ has discovered. 

Major philanthropists are more generous to higher education in the US and UK than they are in other regions, according to a new report.

Unions representing higher education staff have announced a second nationwide strike for 3 December.

“Right-on” lecturers and student campaigns cited as among the reasons, Commons event hears

Scotland risks losing its thriving research base if it becomes independent, analysis by Department of Business, Innovation and Skills has claimed

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The number of international students in US higher education has reached an all-time high according to an authoritative report

A university threatened staff that it would dock them a day’s pay if they did not work unpaid overtime, it has emerged.

The 1994 Group of small research-intensive universities has decided to disband 19 years after being set up.