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House of Lords event hears how council and the scholars it has saved have enriched the UK

The Welsh government has said it will look into “radical” innovations in higher education, including compressing undergraduate degrees into two years.

The banning of psychoactive drugs amounts to one of the worst cases of scientific censorship in modern times, researchers have argued.

Universities have been lambasted for their “excruciatingly slow progress” on switching away from investments in “unethical” industries such as oil.

Universities in Wales have launched a report that argues that they create £3.6 billion for the country’s economy every year.

Labour’s shadow business secretary is “open” to setting a target to increase overseas students if the party returns to power as the major export industry has been “taken hostage by the Home Office” under the coalition.

By Elizabeth Redden, for Inside Higher Ed

The Home Office has concluded that the student visitor route into the UK is being used as intended and not as a back door route to work or settlement

Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a “crisis” in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend

George Osborne has given his strongest hint yet that science funding will be protected in the coming spending review

Scholarly talent search winners for 2013 to bring insights to the nation

Despite loss of teaching grant, universities must still comply with enrolment targets

Royal Institution provokes online backlash over decision to trademark title

Critics of university deal point to repression in Gulf state

Row over use of language in sector a moot point, study finds

When deciding where to publish their research, less than one in three academics see it as very important that a journal makes its articles available for free on the internet, a survey has found

Crowdsourcing is invaluable to researchers, but why do people do it and how can their interest be maintained?

Only £21m of £130.5m scheme reaching student pockets, Hefce finds

Reassure junior researchers but make senior scientists know they’re being watched, scholar argues

Business secretary will argue against sector cuts and for extra investment

Mayor confident in capital’s academic brand values

Parallel sectors would overcome problems of ‘one-size-fits-all’ funding, group argues

Conference hears of funding problems, graduate unemployment and mission creep

Europe-wide survey shows students don’t understand plagiarism

Scholars go hungry as a result of casualisation, congress hears

Former CBI head says interaction’s the key to productivity

Spiders star in scholar’s photographic study

Minister and BIS take close interest in study with enormous policy implications

Cuts to admin staff will harm brand, say Cass Business School academics

Emily Wilding Davison famously stepped into the path of the King’s horse at the Epsom Derby on 4 June 1913

The Science Museum Group may completely close one of its three museums outside London, its director has said.

The University of Salford has confirmed plans to close virtually all courses in modern languages, politics and contemporary history and shut down an entire school “to secure the future of the university” after seeing falling student demand.

Fewer British universities are hitting their overseas student recruitment targets this year in the wake of the government’s visa changes and Indian student numbers have again been hit, according to Universities UK.

Groups of universities could raise funding for postgraduate student loans by issuing bonds, a report by the thinktank CentreForum has suggested.

A student Islamic society has apologised after a video was posted on its Facebook site claiming the killing of a soldier in Woolwich was a government hoax.

Moving medical education and research funding to the Department of Health would “pose a significant threat to the UK’s leading position” in the fields, medical schools have warned George Osborne.

Jackie Hunter has been appointed as chief executive and deputy chair of the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council.

Young people in care are not getting enough support or advice to help them reach higher education, a new study says.

By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed

Hundreds of people have signed a petition protesting about new quarterly journal Porn Studies that is due to launch in spring next year.

Without proper reporting social and psychological experiments are a “waste of money”, researchers have said.

In the US, the Rate My Professors website has been used by students to dish out a “public scolding” to their lecturers – and now the UK has its own equivalent, possibly bringing a shiver of dread to academics and universities.

Leeds Metropolitan University is planning to change its name and is looking at three options: Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Headingley University and Leeds Ridings University.

Lecturers in the University and College Union have moved a step closer to taking industrial action after the union decided to urge members to reject a 1 per cent pay offer

The Wellcome Trust has announced plans to extend its open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters

Graham Gibbs asks what ‘study skills’ consist of and whether they can actually be learned by students

How Bashir Makhoul explores through art the plight of his countrymen

Plans to cut student support may be undermined by court ruling

The difference between an ‘Attila’ and a ‘Desmond’? Two grand a year

Tuition fees major concern for schoolchildren, Sutton Trust discovers

OIA can overrule verdicts only in rare circumstances, High Court finds

Edinburgh Napier’s outgoing v-c rejects ‘tick-box’ approach to governance

Existing office set-up is outdated, v-c argues