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Applications to the Athena Swan Charter for Women in Science continue to grow, the latest set of awards has revealed.

Horizon Scanning study points to a ‘new kind of pedagogy’ in higher education by 2020

Academia ‘has a duty to nurture students’ fledgling businesses’, Royal Academy of Engineering panel hears

Union a ‘positive activity’, says economics lecturer

New book aims to promote calm in place of ‘grievance’

Government report identifies friction in sector over online courses

Template for Orwell’s nightmare the subject of major AHRC-backed study

THE investigation reveals 63 per cent increase in 0.2 deals since October 2011

This guidance for university tutors is taken from a 1674 book, Firmianus and Dubitantius, which consists of “certain dialogues concerning atheism, infidelity, popery, and other heresies and schisms that trouble the peace of the Church and are destructive of primitive piety”

Academics and students register opposition to outlawing of overt displays of religious affiliation

Outgoing Hefce captain proud of guiding sector through choppy waters

New universities may gain most from policy change, argues GuildHE head

Analysts accuse organisation of ‘misrepresenting’ figures

Universities urged to adopt Arrive guidelines

Scholar reflects on risks, regrets, the value of teaching and facing the global future

FoI also shows Patrick McGhee set up inquiry into doomed overseas ventures

Third initiative to foster fairer academy unveiled

Russell Group institutions are by far the most popular UK destinations for overseas students, accounting for more than a third of the numbers in 2011-12

Rectors demand more federal support from new government. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports

Party needs better position on funding, says Bill Rammell

Glasgow Caledonian University is to become the first UK university to open a campus in New York.

Student expenditure supports more than 830,000 jobs in the UK, a new study says.

Many universities are “still not focused enough on teaching” and are using £9,000 fees to subsidise research.

Prospective students can now search for information about higher education on their mobile phones after the government’s Unistats website was updated.

England has “too many” universities and some are likely to close, the director-general of the Confederation of British Industry has warned.

The number of undergraduates accepted on to courses has soared by 9 per cent after dipping dramatically last year, latest figures show.

Harvard University has launched a fundraising campaign that it hopes will boost its coffers by $6.5 billion (£4.1 billion).

The National Union of Students is hosting its first-ever Twitter question and answer sessions, offering first years advice on a range of topics.

Universities should ensure they have strategies to stop students feeling homesick as they begin their studies, experts say.

The winner of an annual pan-European award for teaching has put his success down to traditional methods of classroom “chalk and talk”.

Students paying £9,000 fees may be socialising less and working more than their counterparts under the lower-fee regime, new research suggests.

About three quarters of taught postgraduate students are happy with the teaching and learning on their course, a new national survey says.

Rare recognition by standards watchdog

University plans to give graduates more international experience

Open educational resources considered by institutions and publishers

End of racial affirmative action may not be bad news for minorities, study shows

Private sector hopes to grow on back of oil-backed education funding boost

Minister’s call comes as Lib Dem conference votes to remove students from immigration figures

OER drive by nation’s institutions will save lecturers time

St John’s College, Cambridge was established by charter in 1511 through the generosity of Lady Margaret Beaufort (1443-1509)

A physics/teaching degree has produced its first graduates

Development programmes can make for speedier submission of theses, research suggests

Blog calls for state to give scholars opportunity to influence policy

Amended policy accepts £9,000 charges in short term

Academics at Avans University in the Netherlands revamp seminars to promote student engagement

UK platform aims to make up for late start via ‘social architecture’

OIA orders Warwick to pay £1,000 but finds no evidence that Smadar Bakovic was marked down unfairly

Universities may need to do more to integrate part-time students into their research culture, a survey suggests

Toni Pearce confident BIS negotiations will pay dividends for students

‘Stable’ figures raise question: where has the money gone?

Scholars say culture of deference stifles development

Barts Pathology Museum prepares the specimens for autumn lectures