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Instructors and students discuss their experiences of the University of Edinburgh’s debut courses on Coursera

Paul Manners worries that rush to tell research stories turns academics into salesmen and undermines collaboration

Do the data represent the failure of market research or are they the inevitable by-product of a broad curriculum?

The US dominates this year’s CWTS Leiden Ranking of the world’s top universities.

The vice-chancellor of the UK’s first private university will attend Baroness Thatcher’s funeral after being invited on her instructions, and has praised her for transforming the nation “wholly for the better”.

The University of Leicester has launched an investigation into a public lecture held by its student Islamic society after pictures of signs at the event suggested that men and women were encouraged to sit separately.

A new draft code of governance for Scottish universities has been condemned as “weak”, “meaningless in places” and offering “nothing new” by student and academic unions north of the border.

Incoming National Union of Students president Toni Pearce has acknowledged that sections of the organisation’s membership are dissatisfied with its direction, and is determined to bring them back on board.

Exceptions in the UK funding councils’ open access policy will be made for researchers hired from abroad, the Higher Education Funding Council for England’s head of research has pledged.

A huge cut to the Australian higher education budget announced just months before the next federal election is the largest since 1996, according to umbrella body Universities Australia.

Action needs to be taken against Scottish universities because senior staff members are being given “worrying levels of high pay”, the National Union of Students Scotland has said.

Arts and humanities PhD graduates from the US are more employable than their UK counterparts, a conference on doctoral education has heard.

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The BBC’s use of a student group from the London School of Economics to gain access to North Korea could jeopardise the overseas reputation of UK universities and the work of academics more generally, according to the sector’s representative body and the LSE director

European countries that have a greater proportion of foreigners in their skilled workforce produce more highly cited research, a study has concluded.

Survey reveals online revolution is news to large proportion of European universities

Scientists in the UK have won a major Czech research contract worth £10 million to develop laser technology.

Philip Altbach says global expansion may entrench the dominance of Western university systems

Affluent students who miss out on elite places ‘hyper-mobilise’ to retain status

Report says distribution would change little if based on institutions’ research council income

Clear sight essential, thick skin an advantage: Hepi’s outgoing director looks back on 11 years of scrutiny on the sector’s behalf

Yachtswoman’s charity funds research into innovative economic ideas

Black and ethnic minority academics still suffer racism, study finds. Elizabeth Gibney reports

Unions fear job losses will fund institution’s lofty research ambitions

New head of all-women Murray Edwards College, Cambridge makes equality a priority

Demise of matched funding leaves majority of institutions worse off. David Matthews reports

Strikers are fighting ‘charter for managerial radicalism’, says academic

‘Race law’ cited in imposition of reductions

Forum discusses efforts to increase mobility of Europe’s academics

Former president says online courses could drive down costs

Former prime minister’s higher education policies still elicit respect and rancour. Jack Grove reports

Nasir Warfa believes he is on a US security watch list, writes David Matthews

Cross-party group will review for-profit higher education operators

Future European funding may depend on identifying how research affects women as well as men

Regional competitors are hot on Japan’s heels in inaugural ɫ��ֱ�� Asia University Rankings

Overall funding for Welsh universities is set to increase by 13.6 per cent next academic year.

A cyclist killed earlier this week in London has been named as University College London academic Katharine Giles.

Cardiff University’s dean of medicine has been cleared of research misconduct but the institution has found a former member of his lab guilty of image falsification in four papers.

Boys have been deterred from going to university more than girls in the first year of higher tuition charges, a new study by the Independent Commission on Fees says.

The founders of Mendeley have insisted that selling the company to the controversial academic publisher Elsevier will result only in “good things”

Research Councils UK has removed from its guidance on its open-access policy an exhortation for institutions and authors to make sure a “proper market in article fees” operates.

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 ɫ��ֱ�� 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.