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Michael Crow is among a growing band of US university leaders whose pay is performance-related

Loughborough academic alleges ‘process problem’ with journal’s trust-based system

Simon Kemp sends students on ISO 14001 module into big firms to audit and learn

Inaugural THE Best University Workplace Survey reveals discontent and fears over security of employment

Who got that job? Lesley Lowes on becoming chair of clinical nursing practice at Cardiff University. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Fees would be a focus in Competition and Markets Authority investigation, sources believe

Academic research papers remain useful for several years after publication, according to a study of more than 2,800 journal articles

Cambridge to put plan to set up new chair to vote after $6 million donation from Avery-Tsui Foundation

A new interactive website has been launched to provide the definitive resource for studying the great 17^th-century poet and playwright Ben Jonson

Economic and Social Research Council chief executive Paul Boyle has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester

A former psychiatric nurse who is now a lecturer in creative writing has been awarded the Costa Book of the Year award for his debut novel.

Scotland’s universities are being damaged by a Westminster immigration policy that is “driven by Ukip and a nasty xenophobia”

Fraunhofer UK plans to create up to four research centres in its first five years, according to the head of the country’s first centre in Glasgow

University staff have taken part in a second two-hour strike over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer

The budget for universities in Scotland will remain almost exactly the same in cash terms in 2014-15, the Scottish Funding Council has confirmed

The number of Americans taking full undergraduate degrees in the UK has risen by almost 30 per cent in the last four years, new figures show

A Catholic college has become the UK’s newest university

Harvard comes top in the FT’s 51�Թ� MBA Ranking 2014

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Queen’s and Ulster can take part in Science Foundation Ireland’s Investigators Programme

Taught postgraduate courses are facing a “perfect storm” caused by drops in student numbers and a fall in institution income

The vice-chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University is to retire at the end of the year.

George Osborne “must step back” from forcing cuts “that will cause such damage to universities”, the Universities UK president has warned.

A quarter of academics are employed on teaching-only contracts, new figures show

Thousands take part despite pay threat, UCU says

Universities face “difficulties” in planning student recruitment because of a row in government on whether to scrap funding for the poorest students.

Figures show effect of £9,000 tuition fees and relaxation of student number controls

Analysis critical of professor’s discovery claim is published on arXiv

Salary shoots up for Sheffield v-c while UCU strikes over 1% pay offer

Some members have branded the University and College Union’s decision to hold a series of two-hour strikes a “shameful” attempt to scale back industrial action over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer

Increasingly litigious students are consequence of consumerist nature of universities, says lawyer

New College of the Humanities plots course for growth and more investment

Students assigned an old-fashioned date by Boston College lecturer

Delayed approval from No 10 raises questions about future of role

Agency head Anthony McClaran elaborates on what the role will entail. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

The government wants academics to do more to help get young people into work

£10 million scheme set up to counteract disincentivisation of undergraduate debt for potential researchers

Eminent academics restate worth of ‘knowledge for its own sake’

Head of postgraduate powerhouse Sir Peter Gregson wants to ensure doors are open to all

UEA head blames home secretary for UK’s first fall in international students

The ASA and QAA may be too passive, argues study that found misleading claims in prospectuses

Department head Philippe Froguel insists complaints of ‘bullying’ were intended to oust him from his post

V-c acknowledges ‘agonising’ decision faced by staff over two-hour walkout

Vince Cable has told MPs he agrees that scrapping student opportunity funding would “most impact” groups such as low-income and disabled students.

David Richardson is to become vice-chancellor of the University of East Anglia when present incumbent Edward Acton retires in September

Edward Snowden is standing to become the next rector for the University of Glasgow.

Several universities are threatening to deduct a full day’s pay for anyone taking part in a two-hour walkout, a union has claimed

The Natural Environment Research Council would not contemplate fully privatising its centres, its chief executive has pledged

The University of Cumbria has become the first UK institution to accept Bitcoin for the payment of tuition fees

A former private secretary to Tony Blair is to take over as head of a Catholic university college

The use of crowdfunding to finance research could be used by the government as an excuse to cut public spending, an expert has warned

Spending bill also contains open-access mandate for NIH research

Deputy vice-chancellor steps down from panel after claims of bias

Pelvis fragment ‘could belong to King Alfred’

A vice-chancellor has backed those fighting to save funding for poorer students that is under extra pressure now research money is said to be “safe”