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The government’s plan to finance extra student places by the future sale of student loans is like a Ponzi scheme, according to a thinktank.

It is “perfectly possible” to fund the government’s plan to abolish the by selling off graduate debt, David Willetts has claimed.

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Work amassed over several decades by Khoan and Michael Sullivan

The Treasury has funded a £15 million pilot project to establish three to four University Enterprise Zones in England.

A leading activist has called on the academic community to do far more “to help promote and defend human rights”.

Controversial passage removed pending review as prime minister intervenes

Nobel laureate Randy Schekman has pledged to stop publishing in “luxury journals”, which he believes contribute to the “disfigurement” of science.

51�Թ� journalists have been honoured at a national awards ceremony.

The government’s plan to fund extra student numbers by selling loans omits billions of pounds in lost repayments, the chancellor has admitted.

Universities UK has published legal advice which backs its controversial guidance on the segregation of men and women at campus events.

The government’s claim it can fully fund extra student places by selling loans is “wrong”, according to the MP in charge of examining public accounts.

Legislation a must after scrapping of student quotas

Survey indicates need for fresh ways to measure engagement with industry

The diagram showing the flow of blood in the forearm is taken from William Harvey’s De Motu Cordis (1628), a pioneering exposition of how blood circulates around the body

As long as applicants fulfil language, qualifications and maintenance criteria, ‘they are welcome’, says BIS spokeswoman

How big a role did scholars play in abolition of heinous system?

Admissions standards have fallen to balance budgets, Adelaide chief argues

Russell Group critical of abolition of student numbers cap

Institution’s 12-month embargo is probably ‘in breach’ of ICO guidelines. David Matthews reports

Oxford scholar says discipline can play vital role in meeting biggest challenges

Two university leaders forgo increases as tensions over staff wage offer continue

Judgment is a key development in student athletes’ bid to claim a cut of billion-dollar college sports

Engineering body fears impact of post-16 maths and English workload

Following student protests, government mulls a sector report calling for change. Cyrille Cartier writes

Matthew Reisz talks to the master of Oxford hall and ‘place of inter-religious encounter’

The European Union officially adopted Horizon 2020 on 3 December 2013

Industry and funders still back blue-skies thinking, doctoral conference hears

Judgment says university ‘inadequately investigated’ misconduct case

Academics and students unite in condemnation of ‘violent’ crackdown on sit-ins and demonstrations

The Treasury’s stated plan to fund expansion in student places by the sale of loans omits £1.7 billion in lost repayments arising from the sell off.

Sir Adrian Smith suggests protesters wanted police involved to generate ‘headlines’

A list of recommendations on improving management of animal research at Imperial College London should “resonate” across the UK, their authors say

Shadow universities minister delivers vision for sector in first major speech

More than 1,200 people have signed a petition against a ban on protesting at the University of London

More than £25 million has been awarded by England’s funding council to 20 pilot projects designed to support postgraduate students.

Universities are to work with the government to appoint Muslim chaplains to “challenge extremist views” on campus.

More students are seeking help from university counsellors amid growing concerns over debt and future job prospects.

UK research has higher citation impact than that of any comparator nation, a report commissioned by the government has revealed.

The plan to fund extra student places by selling the student loan book is “nonsense” in economic terms, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.

Thirty-six people were arrested after another confrontation between protesters and police at the University of London.

that student number controls are to be abolished has attracted comment from all quarters. Here is a round-up of responses:

Universities across the UK have been paying tribute to Nelson Mandela, South Africa’s first black president, who has died at the age of 95.

At least three demonstrators were arrested as security staff and police broke up a student occupation of the University of London’s Senate House.

The Russell Group has attacked the government’s decision to abolish student number caps, warning of a potential decline in quality.

The government has given quantum technologies research a boost in the autumn statement.

Fears that universities would be more selective about who they submitted to the 2014 research excellence framework have proved unfounded.

The government will abolish the cap on student numbers “altogether” the year after next, George Osborne has announced

David Willetts has “lost control” of his department’s budget in “spectacular fashion”, according to his Labour counterpart Liam Byrne.

The government has been warned by a leading peer not to cut the science and research budget in today’s autumn statement.

Audit finds lack of women on university boards affects female v-c numbers

BIS admits scale of planned recruitment was ‘unaffordable’