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The government has announced four new University Enterprise Zones that will be set up across the country.

A string of universities sponsoring school academies have been told to raise their games in light of poor standards. 

Princess Anne to open new neuroscience building as staff take action over job cuts

Graduate employment rates have risen for a second successive year, but are still yet to reach pre-recession levels, new figures show.

A London university has become the first in the UK to allow a student to sit on the panel that decides vice-chancellors’ pay, a union has said.

Imperial College London broke animal welfare rules “on an unacceptable scale”, creating an “unacceptable risk” of “appreciable” harm to animals.

Mark Pegg is to step down as chief executive of the Leadership Foundation for Higher Education this month, it has been announced.

Collaborating with the arts sector is beneficial and not only for universities’ REF impact scores. Plus the latest higher education appointments

UK parent institutions face questions over their procedures and monitoring of capital operations

The bookseller is taking on upstart competitors at their own game, says its digital director

Hefce-commissioned report recommends adjusting questions to counter fears that survey is being filled in ‘without sufficient thought’

Paper reveals that university principals worry more about a common research area than English ‘fee refugees’

New workstreams, fewer events and push to attract subscribers could help organisation to achieve self-sufficiency, chief says

Parents and young people are underestimating levels of student debt after graduation, according to the results of a new survey

Survey of university chiefs reveals smouldering anger and ‘black swan’ event predictions

Leeds v-c and former Hefce head Sir Alan Langlands ‘worried’ by George Osborne’s comments on science in the North

Overseas students boost universities’ global links and bolster image with employers, European University Association conference told

Part-time lecturer settles out of court over claims that he was paid a lower rate compared with full-time colleagues

At a British Academy debate, David Sweeney urges the sector to focus on producing graduates who will engage with society

Warwick sociologist urges scholars to let go of their ‘sense of injury’ if they want to resist marketisation

Vice-chancellor April McMahon is planning upgraded campus facilities

Digital literacy can enhance humanities research as well as the skill set of graduates

Matthew Reisz talks to Annabel Tremlett, an academic whose work challenges common perceptions of Romani life

The vice-chancellor of Plymouth University has been “placed on leave” by the institution’s board of governors.

The Institute of Physics has announced the winners of its annual awards in the discipline

A Labour government should set a science and research budget for the entire Parliament, and give universities a bigger role in driving local growth.

Women are greatly underrepresented in the laboratories of the highest-achieving male biology professors in the US, a study has revealed.

Milburn blames ‘secondary school maze’ for missing 2,000

Eight out of 10 prospective Tory MPs think the government should not target international students in the drive to reduce net migration.

Delegates at California convention produce framework on use of personal information

A UK university-business incubator has been voted the best in Europe.

LSBF says many of its students do have the right to work

Ruth Farwell has announced she is to retire as vice-chancellor of Bucks New University early next year

Richard Lloyd to call for universities to be judged on graduate employment

Expectations of fast track to graduate-level job are overoptimistic, suggests report

Institutions still ‘lag well behind’ US counterparts, which are piling on funds

Spiralling costs and frozen domestic income mean that some universities will be ‘completely stuffed’ within three years, claims Anglia Ruskin leader

University still pays rent and maintenance costs for Ladbroke House and is stuck in lease until 2016

University Alliance says repayment period of 15 years under HELP UK system could plug black hole in funding system

Government aims to train 60,000 students at postgraduate level over next nine years

Fears of further reputational damage after licence suspensions

Welfare and gun checks are part of the shield against campus violence

The proportion of graduates in high-skilled employment has fallen since 2008, according to an analysis of Labour Force Survey data

Body has impressed rank and file but must convince institution heads of the impact and value of its work, says report

Union claims that meetings to assess pay rises spend less than a minute per professor on average

Finding at Queen’s University Belfast follows criticism of pro vice-chancellor for citing an unpublished work

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills signals that it may remove sub-degree qualifications from the higher education budget

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

Anti-plagiarism policies - where they exist - are still not working

Lecturer Kelly Holmes’ short film is competing in the Viewster Online Film Festival for the £41,000 prize

Higher Education Academy ‘helps and makes people evaluate their teaching’, says landmark fellow Shelly Kemp. Plus the latest higher education appointments

David Matthews finds government is excluding signalling in its calculations on a degree’s worth

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