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Sweeping changes to the laws governing industrial disputes could restrict unions’ ability to call strike action, writes Jack Grove

Data will power the most comprehensive THE World University Rankings yet

Dalmeet Singh Chawla considers whether unsuspecting academics should be helped by having legitimate papers republished elsewhere

£246 million is big money but it is probably much less than the hit the research budget would take if the REF did not exist, says Paul Jump

Research suggests that UK academics are rarely rewarded for public engagement. Is the same true in the US, asks Andrew Maynard?

The National Union of Students responds to the axeing of maintenance grants in George Osborne’s Budget

Small-group teaching can be life changing, for students and their tutors. But it doesn’t come for free.

An open letter sounding the alarm hit a nerve among academics – it’s time for managers to listen, argues Karín Lesnik-Oberstein.

Creating doctoral colleges and distance PhDs. What are universities doing to better support doctoral students? Holly Else writes

Nitpicking the TEF to pieces would be a mistake, says Derfel Owen. Far better to engage – and here’s how

Department confirms work to find savings is ongoing, but offers no details on George Osborne’s Budget pledge to bring in ‘new entrants’, says John Morgan

A Chinese university has launched an e-commerce site in a bid to improve its graduate employment figures. Will others follow suit? asks Ellie Bothwell

George Osborne's plan for a minimum £9 an hour will not affect vast majority of university staff, but there will be cost implications for institutions, says Jack Grove

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A medical journal now requires submissions to be accompanied by a Twitter-length summary

Roger Brown weeds out ill-advised plans as he digests Hefce’s consultation on quality assurance

Abandoning peer review could lead to never-ending assessment, micromanagement of staff and übergaming, warns Howard Hotson

It’s time to change the system, argues Lucy Newlyn

Shahidha Bari on a supposedly fun thing that makes her apprehensive

Campus leaders must apply academics’ theories in the boardroom, suggests Brian Bloch

Metrics have become prevalent – and problematic – throughout universities, but they can be effective tools if used correctly

But chancellor’s move to change student loan repayment rules presents risks

You might not think it, but students in the 14th and 15th century could teach today’s cohort a thing or two about tearing up the town, writes Matthew Reisz

Pension relief, salary sacrifice schemes and higher education budgets could be targeted by George Osborne, says Jack Grove

Why are certain employers hotbeds for the creation of higher education leaders, asks John Gill

Using employability data to assess a university’s teaching is ‘deeply problematic’, says Graham Gibbs

Academic and former finance minister succeeded by Euclid Tsakalotos as Greece debt crisis continues, writes deputy news editor John Morgan

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From translating health and safety advice to tongue-twisters, there’s always something new to do, says Kate Macdonald

Is it fair to laugh at students’ mistakes? Anger at THE’s annual exam howlers competition has generated a wave of self-published mistakes

Haldane unbound would be as dangerous as unchecked utilitarianism, argues the astronomer royal

David Willetts is wrong: the sector is put at risk by the student loans system’s structural flaws, warns Andrew McGettigan

Heels are instruments both of torture and feminism, says Sally Feldman

It’s a long way to the top if you want to make it as a PI, but there are many positives on the path to that big break

Deputy news editor John Morgan braves the hottest day of the year to take in the new minister's inaugural higher education address

Does your academic CV stand up to scrutiny? Chris Parr blogs about the case of Connie St Louis

Disagreement among social scientists means that policies to tackle climate change remain contentious, write Mark Freeman and Ben Groom

In this blog, news editor Simon Baker considers whether we’ve seen it all before with Hefce’s proposals

Nobel prizewinners tell Phil Baty about their tips for success

Appointment of first black female university leader is watershed moment

That is the promise of a sector-wide consultation about the regulatory future, argues Madeleine Atkins

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Does power corrupt? THE’s Twitter followers put the proposition to the test

Bringing Belarus into the fold has required behind the scenes manoeuvring, but has left the organisation stronger as a result, says Anne Corbett

Popular action can still make a difference, as the U-turn on the fate of a university politics department shows, says John Holford

Christopher Bigsby on the markers and measures of a journey’s end

Unexpectedly in charge of a room of students fretting over the colour of answer booklets, Emma Rees ponders the potential price in dog lives

Early issues of the journal Studies in Higher Education show how greatly academics’ view of what they do has changed, says Bruce Macfarlane

Some practices thought to be long established are anything but, while others considered novel have lengthy histories

A lack of clarity on how to report incidents in UK universities is problematic, says Susuana Antubam

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Sir Tim Hunt’s comments about ‘girls’ in science provoke online storm

A note left by a postgrad who killed himself because he felt ill-treated by his supervisor highlights a worrying trend, says Hong Bing

Undergraduates are ready to be inspired by the right call, says Alex Valente

This mendacious metric is dangerous for individuals and the sector, and bad news for the taxpayer, argues Philip Moriarty

Senior figures worry that the UK is lagging behind the innovators and entrepreneurs pushing the frontiers of higher education

THE reporter Chris Parr in conversation with the principal of Writtle College

Nicole Westmarland shares what she learned about creating a new way of working in academia after losing her spouse

A babel of voices are drowning out the many real threats to intellectual freedom, warns Alan Ryan

Sir Tim Hunt complains of “trouble with girls” in labs, but male egos can be far more obstructive to science, says Ottoline Leyser