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Fifteen per cent of the university spin-offs incorporated in 2000, 2001 and 2002 have so far made a “successful exit” by way of trade sales or flotations on the stock exchange, data show

Government’s latest scheme already seen as insult abroad

US-style charges await in unregulated system, education expert warns

Students offered ‘fun, novel’ way to learn how to write paper ‘abstracts’

Management would not listen to alternative views, duo state

Anant Agarwal, president of edX, tells Chris Parr about online learning, money - and his egg-selling entrepreneurial past

Kingston scheme encourages feedback from all types of undergraduates

Stonewall survey rates Cardiff and Liverpool John Moores as best for supporting gay, lesbian and bisexual students

Transfer should be reversed to improve widening participation, Bill Rammell says

Those once threatened with deportation can’t leave, v-c tells conference

University defends short-term contracts as source criticises ‘game-playing’

Applicant takes Kent to tribunal over doctorate criterion

The desk and spectacles pictured belonged to Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), the German polymath whose travels in Latin America led to the first serious scientific account of the continent

The new chancellor of the University of South Wales tells David Matthews that the word deters poor pupils

UCL celebrates 150th anniversary of arrival of noblemen who modernised their country

Funds are allocated on project quality not desire to support elite, says minister. Chris Parr reports

After 12 months barred from travel to US, Nasir Warfa can reopen his diary

Heather Munroe-Blum outlines her institution’s ‘complex mission’

Protection for science and research spending will be maintained in 2015-16 while the capital budget will be increased to £1.1 billion, the chancellor George Osborne announced today.

The National Scholarship Programme is to be cut by £100 million and made postgraduate-only, as part of savings announced in the coalition’s spending round.

The capital budget for science will be increased to £1.1 billion in 2015-16 and maintained in real terms until the end of the decade, the chancellor George Osborne has announced.

Leighton Andrews, the Welsh education minister who drove through controversial university mergers, has been forced to resign his position

Science should be able to bid against other spending areas such as road-building for capital investment, the chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has argued.

A conference being held this week is setting out to revive a neglected area of research which the Arab Spring has put back in the world’s spotlight.

Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s has predicted that the new higher education funding regime will harm the creditworthiness of some UK universities, widening the gap between the “strongest and weakest”.

A landmark case on the use of affirmative action in university admissions has ended up without a clear winner after a ruling by the US Supreme Court.

New report says total debt burden doubled in five years

The US has reclaimed its position as the biggest spender on higher education, as rising fees pushed it clear in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development’s annual figures.

For many a creationist or devout religious believer, it is a scene straight from a nightmare

A decision by the House of Commons Education Committee to launch an inquiry into the government’s flagship policy for recruiting teachers has been welcomed by a higher education group.

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The coalition’s aim to reduce net migration to the “tens of thousands” by 2015 makes more than half of international students in the UK feel less welcome, according to a new survey.

The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has reached a settlement with the Treasury in negotiations over the 2015-16 spending review, reports suggest

Study suggests women more likely than men to turn down invitations to speak

University lecturers should be required to take teacher training classes, according to an EU commission on higher education led by the former president of Ireland Mary McAleese

Consultation to consider use of metrics and case studies in research assessment

Futurelearn boss says talk of drop outs ‘very annoying’

Sources say switch of medical education and research budgets to Department of Health increasingly unlikely

The number of journals denied an impact factor for taking part in citation cartels has risen sharply this year, pushing up the total number of excluded journals.

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State school children from London and other cities in England are more likely to go on to university after A levels than those from more rural districts, new figures suggest.

Massive open online courses could prove a distraction to universities and cost them money, according to a consultancy that advises governments, investors and institutions on higher education issues.

The UK government must be among those reassuring the public that genetically modified crops are “a safe, proven and beneficial innovation”, environment secretary Owen Paterson has said.

Rick Rylance offers academy guidance for business collaborations

THE Leadership and Management Awards charity IntoUniversity in vanguard of outreach

Universities deciding mechanisms to apportion RCUK cash

Minister wins fans for affirming value of data

Medical research charities want funding protected in spending review

Hefce reveals 215 assessors chosen from outside academy

UCU criticises ‘gun to head’ of 2,800 non-academic staff

Knowledge-transfer experts map path to market for university inventions

NUS’ outgoing leader tells John Morgan that v‑cs and Russell Group must press the sector’s case to government

V-c points to reform’s intellectual and vocational benefits