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Law students from the University of Warwick have so far been involved in 36 death penalty cases in the US

Institute for Fiscal Studies says George Osborne’s Budget changes will also hit middle-earning graduates by more than £6,000 on average

Predicted £310 million deficit prompts sweeping changes for non-academic personnel

New national executive committee perceived as being more left-wing

Online encyclopaedia is currently dominated by male editors

Review of Destination of Leavers from Higher Education study announced

About 80 per cent of UCU members prepared to take industrial action over expectations on external income and other issues

Researcher charts shift from racial to class segregation

Women who head universities say their gender is an extra job

Survey suggests graduates of Australia's less renowned universities earn around 15 per cent more than Group of Eight graduates

Institutions expected to assess where and how students might be at risk of being drawn into terrorism

Michael Gunn will stand down from his role in 2016

Professor hopes York Accord will see institutions take in one student and one academic displaced by violence each year

Will open doors between the academy and the arts create a golden age?

Move follows controversy over comment pieces and cover page for Science

Long-term future of theological colleges in doubt due to stringent visa regime, warns head of one institution

Regional audits of science activity will identify areas of emerging scientific strength, says minister

Business-focused City will join the University of London next year

Stina and the Wolf academics enlist students in bid to make first such full-length film from a UK university

University of Huddersfield lecturer describes success of using plastic bricks in seminars

Leeds Beckett researchers aim to maximise the impact of their knowledge

A round-up of recent recipients of research council cash

Sector questions how government will decide which universities can raise fees on 2017 timescale

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

Hepi report recommends more practice-led courses guided by employer needs, with further education colleges playing a ‘larger role’

The University of Nottingham is the UK institution with the highest number of students going abroad through the Erasmus programme, latest figures have shown

Women in university senior management earn significantly less than men in equivalent roles, says new report

Watchdog pushes higher education institutions to be more ambitious about admitting students from disadvantaged backgrounds

Another amusing collection of student slip-ups submitted by 51³Ô¹Ï readers

With fee rises in the offing for UK universities with ‘high-quality’ teaching, we look at a EUA study of performance-linked funding across Europe

Partnerships between institutions and wider world now worth almost £4 billion

But universities and science minister says focus should be on outputs, not inputs

Doubts now raised over future of project billed as having potential to shake up hierarchy of world higher education

Eighty-five per cent of independent school leavers go into higher education, compared with 66 per cent of state school pupils

Alison Hayman says that she is ‘not incapable’ and her treatment was ‘unjust’

Future of Welsh sector's oversight to come under examination, education minister Huw Lewis announces

Interim vice-chancellor Graham Upton reveals plan to turn around Welsh university

REF case studies used to create a map of knowledge connections between fields

Just 13 per cent of open call applications to social science funder were successful in 2014-15

Proposals amount to 41 per cent increase in minimum salary threshold for new researchers to gain visa, Universities UK and Russell Group warn

University and College Union says proposals could mean a third of Wolverhampton's research professors lose their jobs

Report calls for desired graduate skill set in the field to be ‘clearly set out’

More than one in five employers tell annual CBI/Pearson survey that they have provided remedial support

German court decision both ‘shocking’ and a threat to historical research

Accountability review finds cost of assessment equates to 2.4 per cent of funding bodies’ expected spend over next six years

Moocs and capacity-building projects with partners in developing countries are also expected to expand, a European University Association report finds

‘Anecdotal evidence has little value’, professor tells UK Council for International Student Affairs conference

Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg and physicist Brian Cox highlighted as positive role models

Hefce expert says that funding excellence can go hand in hand with focussing resources on particular locations

Changes to degree-awarding powers that will step up competition for universities heralded in Productivity Plan

But university governing body says it recognises ‘distress’ caused to Nobel laureate and his UCL scientist wife by his dismissal

Business secretary answers ‘no’ when asked if non-EU students should be allowed to stay on for work post-graduation

Figures quoted in Brazilian media suggest US universities may still be waiting for funds for taking students. Donna Bowater reports from Brazil

University of Wisconsin-Madison academic says disciplines, despite initial stumbles, might be better suited than some think

The Sutton Trust has funded degree study at US institutions for 58 pupils from low-income backgrounds 

Hefce head of research policy suggests the way research is conducted should be measured too

Consultant gynaecologist and Imperial College London professor Jenny Higham takes over at South London institution

Members include experienced higher education campaigner Paul Blomfield and medical doctor Tania Mathias

The most selective institutions fare best as student number controls lifted

Campaigners say suitable fossil-free investment funds should be available within a year