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Combined figures show top five the same as last year

Backing winners can lead to poor-quality research, warns Royal Society head

English system left vulnerable by lack of regulatory structure, commission warns

Book celebrates centenary of the first global higher education network

Michael Arthur is ‘not a fan’ of overseas campus approach

Offerings of master’s courses in English tempt students away from UK, study suggests

Scottish glossary breaks down communication barriers

Some continental efforts to ensure integrity are ‘primitive’, study finds

Brussels ‘to close file’ on foreign scholars battling ‘xenophobic’ law

‘Callous’ Home Office refuses leeway for applicant hit by currency drop

The Russell Group has backed the University of Oxford vice-chancellor after he urged the government to allow a rise in tuition fees.

Internet giant Google has signed an agreement with Jisc, the higher education technology consortium.

Three scientists have won the 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for laying the foundations for the computer modelling of chemical processes.

Private providers, including universities’ own offshoots, have been pinpointed as a major risk to English higher education in a new report.

The real cost of a University of Oxford education is £16,000 a year and the fees system should be better related to such an amount.

Scientists who developed a theory describing the origin of mass have won the 2013 Nobel Prize for physics.

The number of international students coming to UK universities will grow at a slower rate over the next 13 years than is hoped for by the government.

The UK scores poorly in a major study by the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development on adult literacy, numeracy and other key skills.

Liam Byrne has been made shadow higher education minister in a reshuffle unveiled today by Labour leader Ed Miliband.

Three scientists who elucidated a fundamental process in cell physiology have been awarded the 2013 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine.

A new monthly online magazine of social research and policy analysis has been launched.

Physicist Peter Higgs is prominent among this year’s list of Nobel Prize predictions by Thomson Reuters citation analyst David Pendlebury

Disabled students are calling on universities to do more to help them to access campus facilities.

This year’s Times Higher Education World University Rankings have sparked reaction from some of the most widely-read news outlets across the globe.

Schools should teach the limits of scientific certainty so the public better understand scientific debate, says president of the Royal Society

The growing importance of tuition fee income for UK universities has been highlighted by Higher Education Statistics Agency data

The insider’s outsider reflects a career at the heart of the higher education sector

Hepi: scrapped courses undermine widening participation

Canada’s early literary and scientific history owes much to two British-born sisters who emigrated to what is now Ontario in 1832

Transparency International report takes aim at sector leadership

Programme may make university-based training financially unviable, says Peter Strike

Massive increase in enrolment since 2007

São Paulo announces further tie-ins at three-day symposium

Poll respondents threatened with redundancy for non-submission

High tuition, bad press and recovering economy cited in falling student numbers

Academics still hidebound by national rules, Commission finds

OU report dubbing 2013 the ‘year of the crowd’ pinpoints emerging technologies set to revolutionise sector

New government also aims to cut red tape

Religious body seeks secular redress for ‘trademark infringement’

Critics brand figures for post-study replacement ‘disappointing’

Born Global research looks to bridge gap between supply and demand

Good news for capital, but fears grow that data reflect growing UK inequality

Minister points to ‘incremental’ removal and sounds warning over Labour fees policy

Q-Step programme at 15 universities set to improve social science students’ expertise

Imperial College London has moved its Translation Studies Unit to University College London.

Three more universities - two from England and one from New Zealand - have signed up to FutureLearn, the UK’s massive open online course provider.

A youth mentor has defended Oxbridge against charges of racial bias in admissions, earning a standing ovation at the Conservative Party conference.

A students’ union vice-president was arrested after objecting to the conduct of police officers searching for drugs at a university party.

Universities were guilty in the past of “extracting money” from business school students without giving them good quality teaching.

A vice-chancellor has declared he is “fed up with employers telling us our students are not employment ready”.

An MP close to David Willetts has admitted defeat on hopes to withdraw students from net migration figures in the near future.

By Michael Stratford, for Inside Higher Ed

Fee loans will be offered to students studying engineering and technology part time as second degrees in a bid to attract more women to the subjects.

Almost two-thirds of students and graduates know someone who has lied on their CV about their qualifications, a survey has found.