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Toni Pearce has been elected as the next president of the National Union of Students, promising to fight for “a movement where students’ unions are leading from the front and aren’t just an afterthought”.

London Metropolitan University will again be allowed to recruit international students after the Home Office ended the revocation of its visa licence.

Students today face a “triple-dip recession” consisting of a lack of jobs, opportunities to study and future prospects, according to the president of their national union.

Margaret Thatcher’s “revolutionary” reforms helped to transform an ailing university system into a world-leading higher education system, a vice-chancellor has said.

National Union of Students’ president Liam Burns has called for “sensitivity” and “respect” after some delegates at the union’s annual conference were heard to cheer news that former prime minister Baroness Thatcher had died.

Salaries for full-time faculty members at US colleges and universities are slowly recovering after years of below-inflation rises, although higher education institutions are increasingly reliant on part-time staff, a report has revealed.

Part-time study needs “unprecedented support” to help kick-start the UK’s flagging economy, Labour peer Baroness Bakewell has said.

In a further sign of the growing scientific prominence of data sets, Nature Publishing Group has launched a new open-access platform that will peer review and publish detailed descriptions of their contents.

The British Library – and the nation’s other legal deposit libraries – have officially taken on responsibility to archive UK web content, opening up immense opportunities for researchers.

Australian academics should not be contractually bound always to split their time equally between teaching and research, the vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide has said.

Three unions at the University of Sussex have begun the process that could lead to strikes over outsourcing plans at the university.

Canadian human-rights case highlights disquiet at practices of Beijing-funded centres up on foreign campuses

Experiences highlight potential risks of overseas ventures for UK universities

Watchdog ‘is not putting enough pressure’ on elite universities to widen participation, says report

‘Social engineering’ might be needed to help integrate international students, Sheffield pro v-c says

Several bodies could carry out university inspections simultaneously to cut the administrative burden

Academics prefer to publish their research under the most restrictive forms of copyright, a survey has suggested

For-profits welcome delay but may have to get ready for quality assessment, John Morgan writes

Publication ethics committee issues new guidelines for peer review

V-c aims for more international and postgraduate action

Scholars downplay regional accents to avoid prejudice, Newcastle University study shows

Cases of serious cheating fall by 60 per cent, company says

Universities must address perception among staff of institutions’ ‘mediocre performance’, hears David Matthews

Historian invites former students to dinner as part of ‘retirement odyssey’

Forum hears doubts about uncollaborative and ‘imperialist’ initiatives

Archive’s historical material will be lost unless sector offers it a home

Episciences Project offers new publishing formula

US president Barack Obama’s announcement that $100 million (£66 million) is to be invested in an initiative to map the human brain has been welcomed by the country’s higher education institutions.

Graduates with science degrees are less likely to be out of work during a recession than those who studied humanities, according to new research on more than 6,000 young Americans.

An occupation of the Bramber House conference centre at the University of Sussex has ended following a High Court ruling.

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Universities should seek inspiration from Germany when looking to involve business in their school outreach programmes.

Many students will “defend to the death” the need for traditional campus-based lectures, and will only delve into the world of free online educational resources if instructed to by their teachers, a conference has heard.

Newcastle University is to launch a new £7 million centre for undersea and offshore engineering on the site of a famous former shipyard.

Recent comments about initial teacher training made by education secretary Michael Gove and Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, constitute a “concerted political attack” on universities that has “no basis” in evidence.

The University of Sussex is still waiting to see if it will be able to evict protesters from an occupation on the campus after a decision at the High Court was adjourned. 

Senior humanities and social science academics come out in support of move to ‘take knowledge out of silos’

REF factor may explain growing wage differential

Better regional R&D strategies needed to access structural funds, sector told.

The OECD’s Ahelo project aims to compare graduate quality internationally

But implementation delayed over ‘serious concerns’

Colin Hay insists that work as chair of politics subpanel will be unaffected by new Sciences Po job

Speculation mounts that reform has diminished leadership role

Chester tackles bodily totems and taboos. Matthew Reisz reports

Spending on defence research and development in the UK has declined by 57 per cent since 1989, data from the Office for National Statistics show.

Dean looks to humanities future after Hefce funding renewal

Ex-president of British Sociological Association argues for renewal of disciplines

These are just two of the plant samples, now held by the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden, that Carl Peter Thunberg brought back from his pioneering expedition to Japan in 1775.

State lowers pay hurdle for overseas graduates as mandarin backs student migrants. David Matthews writes

British Council discussions are under way, reports Donna Bowater from Rio de Janeiro