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By Colleen Flaherty, for Inside Higher Ed

The London School of Economics is “attempting to establish the facts” over the expulsion of an academic from Peking University, one of its partners.

The Office of Fair Trading is to examine England’s universities, including how they compete for students and set fees under the £9,000 regime.

UK universities have the equivalent of £2,083 per student invested in the fossil fuel industry, a new report has claimed.

David Willetts has warned of the need to expand the number of higher education places between the end of this decade and 2035 to cope with a growing young population

If the UK were to leave the European Union, the nation’s universities would be left in even greater “ideological thrall” to the US.

The extraordinary forgotten story of a university science club which put the first Arab rockets into space is the focus of a new documentary film.

Student activists have tried to occupy Vince Cable’s constituency office in protest at Liberal Democrat backing for the sale of the student loan book

The University of Birmingham is returning to New Zealand its collection of Toi moko, tattooed heads preserved by Maoris to venerate a loved one or mock a defeated enemy.

State school pupils do better at university than those from private schools with the same grades, according to a new report which recommends the increased use of contextual data in admissions.

Students across the UK are this week taking part in what organisers believe will be the biggest public debate on animal research ever held.

University hails no-strings pilot’s success

How does the university calculate the real cost of undergraduate education?

These images form part of a forthcoming exhibition about the Victorian magazine Punch taking place at Liverpool John Moores University in celebration of the opening of the institution’s new Special Collections and Archives reading room

Report warns of ‘market failure’ but critics say it doesn’t go far enough

Minutes suggest the pros and cons of strategies for submission

Credit transfer system could give Continent advantage over US

Legal training overhaul would promote diversity and cut costs, regulator says

Faculty-in-residence keen to offer advice and a listening ear

Sunderland and Ulster introduce fingerprinting systems

Vital academic work still missed by impact criteria and civil servants, forum hears

Save ‘outstanding’ programme, university told

Original vision lost in scramble for profit and repackaging of old ideas, say pair

Witty recommends more collaboration, more funding and more weight for impact in REF

Cut wages at top to underwrite living wage to all, say Young Greens

Reasons for withdrawal of legal action on eve of hearing remain unclear

Plans to overhaul A-levels will have “tragic consequences” on fair access efforts, the University of Oxford’s admissions head has said.

Seventy-five institutions have been awarded funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council’s new PhD funding scheme.

University staff will hold a one-day strike on 31 October in a row over pay

The dramatic decline in part-time students will continue this year, according to a report that calls for an “urgent push” to promote such study.

The UK is the “biggest biosciences cluster in Europe” a report by the BioIndustry Association has said.

Impact should be given a weighting of 25 per cent at the next research excellence framework, the author of a government-commissioned review has said

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

The UK has overtaken Japan to become China’s second most prolific research collaborator.

Scientists need to lose their “excessive fastidiousness” to make London the scientific capital of the world, the city’s mayor Boris Johnson has said.

Universities are not producing enough science graduates to meet the needs of the UK economy, business leaders have claimed.

The University of Central Lancashire is to begin offering academic credit for courses that students complete for free online.

Queen’s University Belfast has announced that its dean of medicine, dentistry and biomedical sciences will take over as its president and vice-chancellor

Nearly two-thirds of University and College Union members voting in a ballot have backed strike action in a row over pay.

London Metropolitan University has agreed to end legal action against the Home Office over the revoking of its licence to recruit overseas students.

Measures to tackle illegal immigration are “discriminatory” to international students and send the message that they are not welcome in the UK.

The last three universities to benefit from the current round of the government’s Research Partnership Investment Fund have been announced.

Academic project aims for truth and reconciliation after the bloodshed

On 13 November 1967, Newcastle University became the first and only British university to give Martin Luther King an honorary degree during his lifetime

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