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What insults have people used to disparage intellectuals over the past century?

Times Higher Education World University Rankings data reveal the top 15 universities in Africa

A recipient of the Institute of International Education’s Syrian scholarship fund describes her experience at a US university

Researchers must learn to think like marketers if they want policymakers to listen, suggests discussion paper

Open University explores whether webcams can be used to monitor learners' facial expressions or eye movements

Cambridge Assessment researcher says points system should be redrawn to reflect students’ achievement at university

UPP Foundation will seek to invest money in areas such as access and retention for students from disadvantaged backgrounds

Students will be asked to sabotage the National Student Survey unless ministers pull back from reforms

High-profile critic of Prevent has attracted criticism from Jewish student societies over her comments on Israel-Palestine conflict

Sung-Mo Kang says the university has increased its support to international staff and students but it is still difficult to recruit from overseas

Pilot scheme at Lady Margaret Hall will accept 12 students who ‘would not normally apply or succeed in competing through conventional channels’

Although the UK does well in competitive grant funding, it loses out on EU structural funds

Negative stories including collapse of Kids Company appear to be making the public more wary of major research funders

Li Keqiang also demands institutions stop duplicating research

But group of universities says Vikki Boliver’s latest criticisms are ‘simply not justified’

After months of criticism over potential chilling effect of new rules, campaigners say clarification is ‘good news’

Theresa May said to want UK-wide quality system retained to protect overseas recruitment licence checks

Money is designed to help institutions ‘attract and retain the best and brightest researchers from around the world’

Frontrunner for Democratic nomination has talked tough on for-profit colleges but will her links to the industry prevent her taking action? Michael Stratford reports for Inside Higher Ed 

Opposition calls on government to help meet funding shortfall

Campus staff will have to report their whereabouts to managers when they leave their ‘normal place of work’ for a morning or afternoon

A UK-wide, co-regulatory system is pitched by the QAA at its annual conference while Hefce focuses on changes needed for England's market regime

New course in historical research follows decision to cut undergraduate fees a year early

Science Council debate highlights differences in Leave camp about whether more international students are needed in the UK

TUC analysis of the ONS Labour Force Survey highlights gap between BME and white workers

Paper explores the emotional costs for women of working in ultra-competitive environments

Soon-to-be-released review into employability has identified the importance of work experience, students’ attitude and accreditation

Sector experts variously predict benefits and damage from lifting the lid on who earns what

Almost nine in 10 in staff who took part in online poll do not think the former Ofsted chief is fit to lead institution due to cost-cutting plans

Majority of junior academics are on ‘precarious’ short-term contracts, says UCU report that criticises job insecurity

McGraw-Hill Education chief executive says companies must work to allay ‘legitimate concerns’ of higher education staff

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Brighton piloting and assessing a mentoring programme with potential for much of East Africa

Could the St John's College scheme be first step towards Ivy League-style system of financial support?

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

'Tesla’ initiative will combine anti-plagiarism software with facial, voice and keystroke identification technology

David Turpin says Canada’s provincial system makes it harder to attract international undergraduate students

New collection encourages universities and students to let their opponents speak

BRIDGE fellowships build on partnership established between two institutions in 2014

Asked how they would like to be remembered, high-achieving physicists cited intellectual accomplishments while others referred to personal qualities

Major new research on graduate earnings by course and university shows social background is key

Distance learning master’s courses announced by Falmouth pose the question of whether creative skills can be taught online

Analysis reveals some disciplines could leave graduates at a much greater risk of being replaced by machines in the future

Ballot for industrial action is called despite ongoing pay talks over pay claim for 2016-17

Wellcome Trust Monitor Report finds more certainty about the benefits of breakthroughs, but a mixed picture of general scientific knowledge

Technically-trained graduates vital for development, says thinktank chief

Following previous trips to the country, physicist receives huge welcome after joining Chinese social network

Increased funding is now available applying and commercialising research

Number of women in high performance computing and science in general is worryingly low, says scholar who leads group for female academics in her field

Director of the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education says 'the tide is against' these specialist institutions

Democratic presidential candidates have rival ideas to ease the costs of HE on students, but who has the more realistic policy?

Number of signatories will trigger a mandatory government response

Paper finds that universities are more likely to interact with institutions that are geographically closer to them

New chair of AUDE, Trevor Humphreys, says increased competition within the sector could create ‘perfect storm’ for estates investment in coming years

Largest business school accreditation organisation releases report on future of business education

Lack of independent working blamed for difficulties making the leap from undergraduate to doctoral work

Graduate start-ups also show employment and turnover growth, although fewer are being founded

Universities UK analysis claims that students from the rest of the European Union ‘spend money and create jobs in all corners of the UK’

New head of Staffordshire University says sector must think harder about whether classrooms and lecture halls on campus are suited to modern teaching methods

Philanthropic donations to universities seen in the US can be replicated in Europe and the Middle East, argues former University of Chicago president Hugo Sonnenschein