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A committee of MPs has written to David Willetts over the potential risks to UK science of the proposed takeover of AstraZeneca by US giant Pfizer.

Too many policy experts look to the US and Australia as “some higher education funding nirvana”, according to the vice-chancellor who chairs Million+.

Behind the scenes at science plays: the writers, their intentions and what they achieve

The research funder is seeking a head for its new science strategy department. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

The proportion of capital investment that universities financed using internal funds has leaped 20 per cent over the past four years, according to data released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency

Lecturer’s contract not renewed after he set up out-of-hours module to broaden curriculum

Small increase in fundraising staff prompts questions over sector’s ability to meet £2 billion target by 2022

Consumer legislation will provide tools to ‘whack’ universities, Westminster Higher Education Forum hears

Signatories commit to greater transparency to assuage public concerns

Study proposes code of practice for recruitment firms to help address inequality

Contract lecturers down tools in protest over pay ‘that does not reflect hours worked’

Universities are working hard and succeeding in their aim to improve life for their students, as Times Higher Education’s Student Experience Survey results show

UCU branch ‘strongly opposes’ changing scope of statute

Union threatens action over subtraction of a day’s pay for a two-hour walkout

The former Soviet satellite is working to raise standards and to court foreign students

Universities could be allowed to seek cash without asking funding council’s permission

Senior scholar says his filmed 5-minute debates may expose the “tensions and contradictions’ in academics’ work

Academic proposes biomedical public-private partnerships to protect the ‘R&D ecosystem’ from commercial affairs

University’s 10-week project featured talk by Michael Berlin on First World War conscientious objectors

A Wales-funded public policy institute is to supply evidence to policymakers and create an ‘innovation culture’

Universitas 21 grading introduces new measure of purchasing power

Study reveals challenges for US universities seeking alliances in Argentina, Brazil and Chile

Although tuition charges emerge as most important factor for international students in Hobsons survey

But animal rights group criticises move for not going far enough

The UK’s social mobility debate is too narrowly focused on a “small number of elite universities” and needs to be “dragged out of the 1970s”.

But Cable warns that intervention options are constrained by law

Australia is to remove all caps on tuition fees, a move billed as allowing its universities to compete with “the best in the world”.

A European Union-sponsored university ranking system has gone live after around six years of development.

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The impact of transnational higher education on host nations is mainly positive, although more could be done to raise awareness among students.

A vice-chancellor has made an impassioned defence of the benefits to universities of European Union membership amid the rise in popularity of Ukip.

The government has launched a campaign to attract more women into careers in science, technology, engineering and maths.

An academic best known for his attempt to land a spacecraft on Mars has died aged 70.

Ensuring that skills are used at work will soon be a focus of future education debate, Pearson report argues

Book examines the effects of ‘modernisation agenda’ on the Continent’s public universities in a time of austerity

But tribunal cuts scientist’s payout by 20 per cent to reflect ‘perverse’ attitude

Marking boycott called off as 2 per cent offer accepted

Poor levels of financial support will ‘force women to return to work too quickly’

The bioscience teacher of the year, whose pedagogical skills were honed on the fly, is pressing for more recognition of teaching. Plus the latest higher education jobs and appointments

Australian survey suggests women pay a higher career penalty when they become parents

Great Britain and the US are losing their world share of papers published on the citation database Web of Science to emerging economies, according to a report of research metrics published by Thomson Reuters

Built almost 20 years ago on derelict land, the institution is now the beating heart of the community

Recommendation to extend demand-driven route likely to get green light

National University of Ireland considers lending its name to give the republic’s online offerings global recognition

Nations paying to send students and researchers abroad often fail to assess their value, study finds

UK cancer charity is building on ‘monumental progress’ in treating the disease with more funding for researchers

Vice-chancellor of Bayero University Kano says his institution grew stronger after a deadly 2012 attack

Union seeks court clearance to bill lecturer in failed anti‑Semitism claim

Bright Blue campaign challenges coalition policy

All members of research council grant awarding boards and panels should have training to avoid unconscious bias.

Business secretary Vince Cable has announced that companies are to recruit postgraduate students to help them break into overseas markets.

The British Council is to offer its first free online course for learning English on the UK massive open online course platform FutureLearn.

A committee of MPs has slammed a new government “horizon scanning” programme for not sufficiently utilising the Government Office for Science.

The continuing impact of historian Eric Hobsbawm was celebrated at a major conference held this week.