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Universities to scale back liberal arts and social science courses

Grant winners failing to comply with policies to end cronyism and other practices face penalties

Just one in 10 researchers has completed an internship away from the academy, a new survey says

Critics question Jeremy Corbyn’s £10bn policy to scrap fees, but student activists applaud him for putting free education on agenda

Firm’s scheme offers degree funding in exchange for students returning home to work in the country

Debate hears differing perspectives on whether students should have warnings or be sheltered from certain points of view

Academics need to become ‘good gatekeepers’ to students from minority backgrounds, a study from New Zealand suggests

Institution says app was designed to make the experience of clearing ‘reassuring and enjoyable’

Report recommends that branch campuses are scrutinised within institutional reviews of UK awarding bodies

Megan Dunn and NUS national executive committee clash as policy to formally oppose the teaching excellence framework is passed

Brazil’s flagship scholarship programme likely to suffer as government looks for savings. Donna Bowater reports from Rio de Janeiro

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

Norwegian study argues ‘walking for thinking’ is exercise that all researchers can benefit from

Research councils thought to be under review as BIS aims to be ‘sharper, smaller, cheaper’

Sir Adrian Smith on what he feels is the institution’s undeserved reputation for fustiness

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Dalmeet Singh Chawla looks at short, sharp new ways to impart information from journal articles

Transition to ‘make-or-break’ stage for female academics is a significant challenge, study explains

Scholar says departments that did well in the research excellence framework may not have the right to ‘strut around campus’ if their field is not competitive 

Survey finds that students perceive similar benefits to overseas experience, regardless of duration

‘We don’t need Nobel physicists running car parks. We want the scientists focused on science,’ says universities minister

‘Conference at the Gates’ confronts the buyers and sellers of arms

Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor identifies the top academic ‘habits’ postdocs need to reach the next level

Financial boost follows better than average performance in the 2014 REF

Discipline may fund women fairly because of a better awareness of the ‘ingrained, institutionalized male culture of universities’

Bruce Harreld will become president of the institution in November

Wyn Ellis appears to have been on immigration blacklist after exposing Thai official’s plagiarism

Scholars in countries with a permissive approach are three times more likely to use the technique

First female president of Universities UK jokes that ‘it’s only been 100 years’ before a woman filled the post

Kiron University looking to raise money to offer free education to refugees

Ministers respond to concern about violence against women on campus

Deluge of submitted papers leads journals to fall back on alma mater prestige, research suggests

Watchdog says only one in five of a cohort of students at London-based Grafton College of Management Sciences on course to complete qualification on time

Region’s universities must build a type of institution distinctive from those in the West, scholar argues

Fundraising consultant says management restructure would increase industry funding to HE

University of the Witwatersrand vice-chancellor says research excellence can still be pursued while professoriate is reshaped

Scholar says ‘extraordinarily challenging’ task of running a university’s overseas outpost needs to be rethought

Calohee learning outcomes project criticised by OECD, whose own scheme has failed to get going

BIS data confirm continuing decline in part-time study and widening of gender gap

Part of the founding vice-chancellor’s vision lives on at the University of Essex

Hepi report says higher education systems are too different to allow for an ‘off-the-shelf’ solution

UKVI takes action against one of England’s largest private colleges

Systematic searching and a clear focus are the keys to a successful literature review

Analysis of Hesa data reveals the extent to which academics are outnumbered by support staff

The good, the bad and the offbeat: the academy through the lens of the national press

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

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51�Թ� analysis shows hospital studies increasingly important but industry publications dip

Bumper year for fund managers at the Universities Superannuation Scheme

Graduates of Russell Group institutions were the least likely to be unemployed three and a half years after leaving university, with just 1.7 per cent falling into this category, figures show

Computing, maths and business management in line for ‘rationalisation’ as spending cuts hit institution

Luister details alleged discrimination against black students at leading institution

Scottish university signs up with rival plagiarism detection service after complaining about ‘operational difficulties’

US firms report increasing use of psychological assessments

Institutions also ordered to establish press offices and publish “authentic” university news

Study warns that targeting where students live, not their individual circumstances, can inadvertently benefit privileged children

Event at the University of Hertfordshire breaks new ground in examining the undead

Government seeks to build on increasing numbers coming from abroad to study in the country

Jon Marcus travels to the Big Easy to see the varying fortunes of the city’s universities

Academy Award-winning actor visits archives and old laboratories where the famous British scientist worked