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A former Labour minister has called for an increase in public spending on higher education to close the “international competitive gap”.

The Royal Institution has scrapped efforts to ask academics to sign an agreement if they want to use its trademarked term “Christmas Lectures”.

Academic and student unions north of the border have again condemned a new code of governance for Scottish universities as “vague” and “meaningless”.

More than 40 universities are to receive money in the latest round of a scheme to reduce energy costs and carbon emissions.

Citations could replace peer review in sciences, study concludes

Prepare for some Darwin-on-Mendel action: it’s the ‘exam howlers’ 2013

‘Big community’ yet to be reached by prestigious programme, study finds

Recruiters doubt comparability of degree results

Critics doubt legality of regulatory framework’s disciplinary powers

A library-focused effort aims to take monographs off the analogue shelf

But NUS says commercial loans are not the answer to ‘crisis’

V-c warns of credit crunch over funding plan

Plans were abandoned only after ‘extensive negotiations’ with union

Sarah Thomas leaves Oxford’s Bodleian Library to take up vice-president post at Harvard Library

British Academy’s new president demands clarity and humility

University criticised for ‘unreasonable’ stance over data-transfer error

Planned outpost at Queen’s Hill uncertain after concerns over land use protest

Interviews begin for chief executive post: will a woman get the nod at last?

Newest union member will apply national and European resources to improve qualifications, access and research

Minerva aims to reinvent the university as a global experience of ‘Ivy League’ education

Parents and students in line for rude awakening

The situation of the lettori - the British and other foreign lecturers working in Italian universities - has been dealt a blow by a new court ruling.

David Willetts has announced £85 million in funding to provide equipment in three of the “eight great technologies” being targeted to drive growth.

A protester has been arrested for allegedly writing in chalk on a university building during a demonstration in support of outsourced cleaners.

Four out of five students live away from their university campus and spend around £50 a month travelling to their studies, new research shows.

The number of scientific procedures started on animals in the UK has risen sharply, increasing by 8 per cent.

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

Nine out of 10 people not in work, education or training aspire to get a job or study, but more than a third feel they will never be employed, according to a new survey.

Aging hippies and rare surviving examples of purple corduroy suits could be spotted at the University of Greenwich’s Breaking Convention conference last week, billed as “the 2^nd multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness”.

A group of Conservative MPs want to limit the number of international students allowed at all but the “top” 30 universities in the UK.

The South East Physics Network, created five years ago to counteract a decline in the subject in the English region, has launched its second phase.

Universities are too focused on students who go “punting on the Wear or the Cam”, while gaining degree-awarding powers is cloaked in magical secrecy.

Almost two-thirds of graduates in unpaid internships six months after leaving university are female, according to new research.

The government has defended its innovation policy after criticisms that the lack of a coherent strategy was harming UK business.

Playing sport at university is linked to a higher salary and fewer periods of unemployment, new research has claimed.

A British university has purchased the manuscript of a literary landmark at a price of close to a million pounds.

David Cope defends merits of ‘monetising’ in impact-focused era

Scholars dismayed at MA partnership with private university

Lecturers aid students in ‘School of the Damned’

Matthew Reisz meets Harvard superstar Michael Sandel to discuss the preservation of the public good

Western universities don’t expect new emir to shake up status quo

Higher degree holders may face as much of a struggle to find jobs as those with first degrees, Higher Education Statistics Agency data indicate

Willetts aims to fill ‘black hole’ left by failure of higher education bill

Hefce refuses to comment on US parent’s struggles

Major study quantifies price of immigration regulation

Long-term study of alumni careers questions coalition’s STEM emphasis

Students will demand ‘full-time professionals’, it is claimed, but others say the contracts will increase

Institutions must fulfil their historic mission of developing student potential, says former vice-chancellor

Academics invited to publish papers, solicit reviews on new scholarly site

Edinburgh’s principal tells conference that universities can target disadvantaged schoolchildren via the online courses

Overweight applicants disadvantaged in face-to-face interviews

Smaller institutions unlikely to benefit from revised low-cost lending terms