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Lecturer’s contract not renewed after he set up out-of-hours module to broaden curriculum

Small increase in fundraising staff prompts questions over sector’s ability to meet £2 billion target by 2022

Consumer legislation will provide tools to ‘whack’ universities, Westminster Higher Education Forum hears

Signatories commit to greater transparency to assuage public concerns

Study proposes code of practice for recruitment firms to help address inequality

Contract lecturers down tools in protest over pay ‘that does not reflect hours worked’

Universities are working hard and succeeding in their aim to improve life for their students, as Times Higher Education’s Student Experience Survey results show

UCU branch ‘strongly opposes’ changing scope of statute

Union threatens action over subtraction of a day’s pay for a two-hour walkout

The former Soviet satellite is working to raise standards and to court foreign students

Universities could be allowed to seek cash without asking funding council’s permission

Although tuition charges emerge as most important factor for international students in Hobsons survey

But animal rights group criticises move for not going far enough

The UK’s social mobility debate is too narrowly focused on a “small number of elite universities” and needs to be “dragged out of the 1970s”.

But Cable warns that intervention options are constrained by law

Australia is to remove all caps on tuition fees, a move billed as allowing its universities to compete with “the best in the world”.

A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.

By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

The impact of transnational higher education on host nations is mainly positive, although more could be done to raise awareness among students.

A vice-chancellor has made an impassioned defence of the benefits to universities of European Union membership amid the rise in popularity of Ukip.

The government has launched a campaign to attract more women into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths.

An academic best known for his attempt to land a spacecraft on Mars has died aged 70.

UK cancer charity is building on ‘monumental progress’ in treating the disease with more funding for researchers

Vice-chancellor of Bayero University Kano says his institution grew stronger after a deadly 2012 attack

Union seeks court clearance to bill lecturer in failed anti‑Semitism claim

Bright Blue campaign challenges coalition policy

Ensuring that skills are used at work will soon be a focus of future education debate, Pearson report argues

Book examines the effects of ‘modernisation agenda’ on the Continent’s public universities in a time of austerity

But tribunal cuts scientist’s payout by 20 per cent to reflect ‘perverse’ attitude

Marking boycott called off as 2 per cent offer accepted

Poor levels of financial support will ‘force women to return to work too quickly’

The bioscience teacher of the year, whose pedagogical skills were honed on the fly, is pressing for more recognition of teaching. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Australian survey suggests women pay a higher career penalty when they become parents

Great Britain and the US are losing their world share of papers published on the citation database Web of Science to emerging economies, according to a report of research metrics published by Thomson Reuters

Built almost 20 years ago on derelict land, the institution is now the beating heart of the community

Recommendation to extend demand-driven route likely to get green light

National University of Ireland considers lending its name to give the republic’s online offerings global recognition

Nations paying to send students and researchers abroad often fail to assess their value, study finds

All members of research council grant awarding boards and panels should have training to avoid unconscious bias.

Business secretary Vince Cable has announced that companies are to recruit postgraduate students to help them break into overseas markets.

The British Council is to offer its first free online course for learning English on the UK massive open online course platform FutureLearn.

A committee of MPs has slammed a new government “horizon scanning” programme for not sufficiently utilising the Government Office for Science.

The continuing impact of historian Eric Hobsbawm was celebrated at a major conference held this week.

The Athena SWAN charter does advance gender equality in university departments that sign up to it, according to an independent review of the scheme.

The University and College Union has officially called off its marking boycott after members voted to accept a new pay deal from employers

Researcher on project criticises pursuit of recordings

Education secretary Michael Gove has announced an independent review of the quality and effectiveness of initial teacher training courses.

Plos One study also reveals that parenthood has little impact on publishing productivity

Damaging policies helps explain country’s standing among devolved nations

Failure to recruit may lead to lowering of promotional bar

Lovers in Time, directed by Agnieszka Piotrowska, is being shown at Harare International Festival of the Arts

Sir Patrick Stewart brought a dash of Hollywood glamour to the launch of the Times Higher Education 100 Under 50 2014 rankings in Miami on 31 April

Research finds Harvard course cohort had high hopes, but avoided collaboration and failed to use new skills at work

Doctoral training centres report rise in overseas applicants as graduate salaries lure UK talent