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Lebanon is failing to enable displaced scholars and students to continue their work and education, says report

Vice-director Anne Mills talks about the growing field of health economics

Staff at King’s College London are set to take industrial action over planned redundancies in three health schools

Students have forgotten more than half of what they learned in their A levels by their first week of university, a new study says

Announcement follows immigration minister’s statement on student visa crackdown

Universities of West London and Bedfordshire also told they cannot sponsor new international students

Labour will use a long-term plan for research funding to help create high-wage jobs, ending “uncertainty” in science policy created by the coalition.

Universities are “overshadowed” by research and teaching methods dating back hundreds of years, stifling innovation, a conference has heard.

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The principal and vice-chancellor of Heriot-Watt University has announced he is leaving his post to take the helm of an Australian university.

The value of outstanding student loans owed by graduates will rise to £330 billion in the 2040s

The “Oxbridge Ambassador for Wales” has recommended partnerships among schools to increase the number of Welsh pupils going to Oxford and Cambridge.

Survey reveals best and worst UK universities for electric vehicle ownership

Open letter over plan to shut East Grinstead regional centre and review others

A woman stabbed to death in Essex has been identified as a Saudi Arabian student who was taking an English language course at the county’s university.

An adviser to David Cameron has urged the government to rank universities’ courses based on their employment rates and graduate earnings.

Sir Roderick Floud, former UUK president, criticises duplication and waste in ‘muddled non-system’

Fears that Beijing’s ‘red zone of forbidden knowledge’ is spreading in the wake of partnerships

Dame Judith Rees, former LSE interim director, warns of problems as students’ awareness of value increases

Journal’s editors withdraw threat to resign after publisher apologises for obstructing report critical of industry practices

Report points to prevalence of plagiarism and low awareness of academic integrity and referencing conventions

Japan is still the number one nation but the balance of power is shifting as Beijing increases research funding

‘Captain Cyborg’ Kevin Warwick on how a new research focus and 200 extra staff can help the institution rise up the rankings

Jon Marcus reports on the Chicago institutions battling it out for the Barack Obama presidential library and museum

Lecturer Ann Rogerson on the telltale signs of the ghostwriter’s presence. Plus the latest higher education appointments

Cardiff University’s CAER Heritage Project announced as overall winner for engagement with the public

The UK and other European countries are underinvesting in research and development, according to a report from the European Commission

James MacAskill, principal of the private college, says suspension is down to a ‘misunderstanding’ by the 51�Թ� Office

SLC discusses whether students are genuine and attending classes despite confusion over who should investigate

Collection could be broken up in legal action over 1944 deed of trust

Vice-chancellor claims that removing the cap on fees and subsidising poorer students would work but is a ‘toxic issue politically’

User data for initial online offerings show that 13% of those who sign up finish their courses

Suspended professor prevented from speaking at conference

The University of East Anglia scooped the top prize last night at the 51�Թ� Leadership and Management Awards 2014

A group of students has delivered a petition to Universities UK calling for the sector to stop investing in fossil fuels.

Scottish universities have created a new body to promote themselves to the rest of the world separately from institutions in the rest of the UK

By Scott Jaschik, for

‘Brightest and best future’ for HE in Scotland ‘is to remain in the UK’, they say

Government admits £8 million paid out to students who had not proved residency

The University of Sunderland has joined a growing list of institutions who have decided to waive fees for language students on a study year abroad

The vice-chancellors of the universities of Nottingham and Birmingham have been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours

Tens of thousands of undergraduates are relying on payday loans or doorstop lending to fund their studies, a new survey suggests.

UK’s only professor in education for deaf children among those winning fellowships

Vice-chancellor to split institution’s four faculties into seven in drive to boost intake and forge new links with industry

Citation in high-impact journals valued more than scholarly assessment

Better university grievance processes may be behind the drop in adjudicator’s caseload

Panel speakers fear v-cs’ silence presages a lack of pre-election policy debate

Universities UK warns that new funding models may create ‘significant financial risk’ for institutions

Exeter staff bristle at proposed change to teaching timetable to include 9pm finish

Scholar Siân Lindsay’s research on doctoral completion has yielded valuable insights and practical advice

16-member 51�Թ� Academy of Liberal Arts aims to help reassert value of non-STEM study

‘Draconian’ idea to pool universities’ financial resources to rescue failing institutions abandoned

Seminar on strategies to tackle parlous state of discipline in UK told to note recent recovery of Classics