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Hundreds of people have signed a petition protesting about new quarterly journal Porn Studies that is due to launch in spring next year.

Without proper reporting social and psychological experiments are a “waste of money”, researchers have said.

In the US, the Rate My Professors website has been used by students to dish out a “public scolding” to their lecturers – and now the UK has its own equivalent, possibly bringing a shiver of dread to academics and universities.

Leeds Metropolitan University is planning to change its name and is looking at three options: Leeds Beckett University, Leeds Headingley University and Leeds Ridings University.

Lecturers in the University and College Union have moved a step closer to taking industrial action after the union decided to urge members to reject a 1 per cent pay offer

The Wellcome Trust has announced plans to extend its open access policy to include scholarly monographs and book chapters

OIA can overrule verdicts only in rare circumstances, High Court finds

Existing office set-up is outdated, v-c argues

Edinburgh Napier’s outgoing v-c rejects ‘tick-box’ approach to governance

Leading designers discuss how UK institutions must adopt technologies and work with industry

Russell Group’s latest members have agreed to stump up £500,000 each

Fluent instruction no more effective than poor delivery in teaching terms

Funded young researchers refused entry to UK, professional body warns

Universities contributed £3.4 billion to the UK economy in 2011-12 in services to business and the community, figures published in the Higher Education - Business and Community Interaction Survey 2011-12 show

Graham Gibbs asks what ‘study skills’ consist of and whether they can actually be learned by students

How Bashir Makhoul explores through art the plight of his countrymen

Plans to cut student support may be undermined by court ruling

The difference between an ‘Attila’ and a ‘Desmond’? Two grand a year

Tuition fees major concern for schoolchildren, Sutton Trust discovers

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Vince Cable has said any sense of “triumph” over new figures showing a decline in student immigration is “absurd”, as he issued a strong defence of international student movement

Stay-at-home students who attend a local university should be eligible for cut-price tuition fees of £5,000 a year, according to an influential commission of higher education experts

A major new academic study exploring the attitudes of women who have converted to Islam in Britain looks at issues ranging from dress codes to divorce, marriage to media stereotypes and spirituality to sexuality.

The University of Greenwich has launched an investigation into whether there has been extremism on its campuses after confirming that one of the suspects in the murder of a British soldier studied at the institution

Students at the University of Cambridge have written to an education minister attacking the government’s response to a petition against the plan to scrap AS levels.

Teenagers in one of London’s most deprived boroughs are to receive grants from their local authority to help them attend university.

Some employers are nervous about incorporating the Higher Education Achievement Report into their graduate recruitment process, a report has found.

Net migration to the UK has fallen again mainly thanks to a 23 per cent drop in the number of students coming to the country to study.

Lowering tuition fees to £6,000 – a policy put forward by Labour - could cost the Treasury the same as the current £9,000 set-up, a study has claimed.

Institutions consider projects to take advantage of VAT exemption

Recruiting overseas students is the priority rather than UK growth and innovation

£9,000 limit poses threat to quality and income, conference hears

Brighton event aims to form charter of core university values

Essex scholar Malcolm Brynin points to worsening odds on university ‘gamble’

Focus on people, not technology or the DSM, to treat mental illness, Tom Burns tells Matthew Reisz

Cyber rhino’s online rampage to raise public awareness

How Holyrood could deter English students in search of free tuition

Working-class students struggle with ‘composite masculinity’, study finds

UK-based provider is readying itself for launch in the autumn

Study identifies better use of research capacity outside Anglo-American sphere

New v-c aims to crowdsource strategy via online meet-up

Less than 10 years since their introduction, tuition fees will soon disappear from the country. Frances Mechan-Schmidt reports

A derelict research lab once used by Sir James Black is revived in an artistic installation

Lack of online interaction could signal need for support, research suggests

Nation likely to lose fruitful position in UK research system, experts say

These miniature picture Bibles were created by two German sisters from Augsburg around 1690

An exhibition gives context and renewed attention to Richard Marsh, whose work outsold Dracula

Treatment to avoid cuts would do more harm than good, critics say

Full disclosure could break competition law, conference hears

The US massive open online course platform edX has signed up 15 more universities, more than doubling its number of higher education partners.

The publisher Elsevier has disassociated itself from an article by a trade association it belongs to that condemns proposed open-access mandates in several US states.