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South Sudan's fledgling universities need money - and educated young people - to survive. Graham Jarvis reports

Rise in non-EU applications masks problem with key market, THE poll finds. John Morgan reports

Phil Baty celebrates the universities that have reached the top of the global academy in decades, not centuries

Introducing a "student premium" to encourage more teenagers from disadvantaged families to attend university may lead to cuts in support for mature or part-time students, sector figures have warned.

Free from tradition and baggage, a wave of upstarts are challenging their elders. Phil Baty investigates

Shocked by price rises, UK students are looking carefully at US universities. Elizabeth Gibney writes

Achieving world-class status is a marathon, not a sprint, but notes Jamil Salmi, rapid progress can be made with the right regimen - particularly when starting from scratch

Lowering university offers to reflect social deprivation may be misguided because decisions are being based on unreliable data, the head of the UK's admissions body has warned.

Phil Baty explains how the 100 Under 50 ranking was created and emphasises the dynamism of the table

The sole surviving chick from a pair of peregrine falcons nesting on a Nottingham Trent University building has been cooed over by more than half a million people since its first appearance via the institution's webcam.

The 100 Under 50 table is built on the criteria used for the World University Rankings, but with a twist

A university has defended a senior manager who encouraged staff to improve student-completion rates by resubmitting work, giving "generous" deadline extensions and passing assignments before they had been seen by external examiners.

The 1960s universities rose to prominence on the back of savvy leadership and a firm commitment to research, argues Paul Wellings

UK universities made £1.1 billion through research contracts with businesses and non-commercial organisations in 2010-11, according to Higher Education Statistics Agency data.

Barriers to entering many professions are being reinforced by employers who recruit from a small cohort of socially exclusive universities, according to the government’s independent reviewer of social mobility.

Agricultural sciences, physics, mathematics and chemistry have been identified as “vulnerable” by Australia’s chief scientist.

Dozens of university chancellors and heads of governing councils have written to the prime minister backing calls for international students to be removed from net migration statistics.

The University of Greenwich has topped the People and Planet Green League 2012, up from joint fifth place last year.

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An academic who left school at 15 is one of the winners of the Higher Education Academy’s doctoral programme awards.

Staff at the University of the West of England are considering strike action in a dispute over their workloads.

Imperial College London, University College London and the computer firm Intel have launched a research institute they hope will help to shape the way cities work in the future.

Ed Lester, the Student Loans Company’s chief executive – whose tax arrangements sparked a public outcry – is to step down, it has been announced.

Unions have expressed their disappointment after universities tabled a final pay offer for next year of 1 per cent.

The results of a new method of distributing money for bioscience institutes based on their contribution to strategic programmes and national capacity have been announced by the government.

Withdrawing state support for access to higher education courses will stop thousands of prospective mature students from attending university, a report has warned.

Fears that Scottish universities would offer more places to undergraduates from the rest of the UK because they come with more money attached appear to be unfounded, research by ̽����Ƶ suggests.

EIB calls on UK universities to apply for long-term, low-interest investment. Elizabeth Gibney reports

The crucifix behind the altar in the chapel at Leeds Trinity University College (shown here as a work in progress) has a number of unusual features.

Cross-subsidising 'loss-makers' an essential part of university life, says UUK head. Jack Grove writes

A debate over 90-year-old Irish killings illuminates historians' conflicting roles. Matthew Reisz reports

England may have gone "a bit over the top" in transferring the cost of university education from the state to the graduate, the coordinator of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's skills strategy has said.

Academic's research makes compelling case for 'diversity in fashion'. Matthew Reisz reports

Scholars already seek donations 'in the margins', development director says. David Matthews writes

Sir Nick Montagu of the CUC talks to John Morgan about regulation, remuneration and accountability

Tear gas and baton charges fail to cow student protests. Nathan M. Greenfield reports

Data showing that Australian universities have continued to increase their revenue from overseas fees despite recent falls in applications have prompted a debate over rising charges.

As bank talks to BIS, critics ask how a 'risk-share' plan will further fair access. John Morgan writes

The government is set to push ahead with plans to create a new generation of universities by lowering the qualifying threshold for university title from 4,000 to 1,000 students.

Crime writers aid Dundee drive by offering donors chance to star as a stiff. David Matthews reports

The government is consulting Goldman Sachs on how to help universities attract private funding to finance overseas ventures.

Further legal challenges possible as court overrules OIA for the first time. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Everyone knows that science is an international profession, but data from the US National Bureau of Economic Research have given a clear picture of which countries export their talent and which have researchers flocking to their shores.

Coalition government ministers have written to England’s funding council and the Office for Fair Access asking them to develop a “shared strategy” on helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds.

By Susan Woodward for Campus Review

One of the longest-serving vice-chancellors in the UK higher education sector has announced he will retire next year to pursue activities including a master’s degree in philosophy.

Private school pupils are three times more likely than their state-educated peers to reach the high-achieving AAB grade threshold at A level that affords entry to “the most selective universities”, Nick Clegg has warned.

Confidence in the graduate jobs market has dipped among final-year students and salary expectations have stagnated as universities prepare to introduce fees of up to £9,000 a year in the autumn.

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Debate on social mobility is too focused on university access, Labour Party leader Ed Miliband has argued.

More than half of the UK students who took part in Erasmus in 2010-2011 come from just 20 universities, most of which are Russell Group institutions.

The University and College Union has condemned plans by the University of Sussex to “privatise” some 235 of the 2,200 jobs at the institution.

An associate editor of a leading Elsevier journal has resigned, claiming the publisher is “denying developing countries access to research findings”.

Universities UK is appealing to the prime minister to remove overseas students from the net migration count, ahead of a possible backlash against the sector arising from the next batch of immigration figures.

Technology posts go unfilled as academy restates the value of liberal arts degrees. Jon Marcus writes