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Fewer 18-year-olds and rise in BTECs could leave highly selective universities vulnerable, says Ucas chief

New head of Higher Education Wales calls for review of funding to support students from deprived areas

Senior figures say ‘disputed territory’ curbs may prompt refusal to participate in EU framework

Old boy network still plays vital role in securing top posts, research shows

‘Lighthouse’ concept fails to illuminate

Quintin McKellar discusses clearing, post-qualifications applications and tuition fees

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Four out of five postgraduate research students are happy with their university experience, a new study has suggested.

Plans by the University of London to sell a rare set of early printed editions of Shakespeare’s plays have been branded “egregiously wrong”.

The Liberal Democrats are trying to push through legislation to stop the National Union of Students campaigning against them at the next general election, Labour MPs have claimed.

Universities Scotland has trumpeted the wider social value of international students beyond their economic contributions, arguing for visa policies that will help grow their numbers.

A consultation on changes to pharmacy education has been launched to address concerns over an over-supply of graduates in the field

A university has asked for a journal paper to be retracted after an investigation found no evidence that the study it described had been carried out.

The Student Loans Company has sacked four people in the last five years for their inappropriate use of the social networking site Facebook

A fifth regional alliance of research universities has been announced by three institutions in the east of England.

Nearly two thirds of students are now working part time to help fund their studies, according to new research.

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For some, studying towards a maths degree might feel as challenging as a 22,000-mile bike ride

Ensuring prospective students get accurate information on workload, class sizes and teaching is the aim of new guidance from the quality watchdog

Universities should give more intellectual property over to small- and medium-sized British businesses

Visa applications from overseas students seeking to study at universities are up 4 per cent despite the government’s toughening of the visa regime.

Almost nine out of ten graduates from the class of 2008-09 are in work, according to new data, and just over 3 per cent are unemployed.

Richmond, the American International University in London has become one of the rare private providers to pass a full review by the quality watchdog.

Anonymous reports of misconduct will be blocked, writes Frances Mechan-Schmidt

Academics fear thin end of wedge

Advantages to making research freely available are still limited when publication is via gold journals

Too many adjectives and adverbs spoil academic broth, scholar argues

BIS applies cap in 2014, but with terms allowing ‘back door’ expansion

Teesside’s Centre for Realist Criminology to probe stories behind the statistics

Plan to make higher education sustainable requires a simultaneous attack on three big problems, says expert

Funds to be available quickly for research into rare, unfolding events

Independence enables biomedical laboratory to offer stability and freedom to researchers

Dip into surplus to improve below-inflation 1% offer, union tells sector

Critics turn on proposal to ‘shame’ sector into cutting costs

Conjoined twins Chang and Eng Bunker (1811-74), originally from what is now Thailand, toured the world in a “human circus” and became so famous that the term “Siamese twins” is still current

Vice-chancellor John Cater says that employment focus ensures strong applicant interest

University renowned for drunkenness pioneers a new way to tackle binge drinking

Organometallics and University of Western Australia are reviewing article containing instruction to ‘make up’ data

Methodological controversy and a “publish or perish” culture explain why papers from US behavioural studies are more likely to exaggerate findings.

The acronym Mooc has made the Oxford Dictionaries Online – a web-based lexicon of current English by the publishers of the Oxford English Dictionary

A Scottish lecturer’s union has launched an investigation into the use of zero-hours contracts by universities and colleges in Scotland

The first UK undergraduate medical degree to be offered by a private university has been launched, and will begin teaching from January 2015

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A student project to create an “edible campus” is among the beneficiaries of a £5 million fund from England’s funding council.

Penguins seldom come to Britain, it is said, because they are afraid of Wales.

A London-based private provider is to offer pathway programmes with a consortium of Northern universities, enabling international students to get on to degree courses

London South Bank University has announced that its new vice-chancellor will be David Phoenix, current deputy vice-chancellor at the University of Central Lancashire.

The latest edition of the University of Sydney students’ newspaper has been pulled from sale following concerns that its cover featuring 18 students’ vaginas could break obscenity laws

Students, young academics, professionals and entrepreneurs are being encouraged to present fixes to some of the world’s most pressing challenges - in three minutes.

It is not often that academics are mentioned in the same breath as Angelina Jolie and George Clooney for their humanitarian work, but for one University of Ulster academic, this unlikely scenario has become a reality.

The US government is to develop a new system of ranking colleges and universities in a bid to ensure the “best value” institutions have access to the most federal funding.

Half of scientific papers published in 2011 can be accessed online for free, a new study has suggested. 

In a significant victory for data miners, the open access publisher BioMed Central is to waive all copyright over datasets it publishes.

The Russell Group has warned that private school pupils are more likely than state school counterparts to choose science and languages subjects at GCSE, which could give them an advantage in university entry.

High fees prove no object to demand, but student standards may invite scrutiny

Undergraduates ‘reproduce social inequality’, paper argues