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By Elizabeth Redden, for

Nine out of 10 people not in work, education or training aspire to get a job or study, but more than a third feel they will never be employed, according to a new survey.

Aging hippies and rare surviving examples of purple corduroy suits could be spotted at the University of Greenwich¡¯s Breaking Convention conference last week, billed as ¡°the 2^nd multidisciplinary conference on psychedelic consciousness¡±.

A group of Conservative MPs want to limit the number of international students allowed at all but the ¡°top¡± 30 universities in the UK.

The South East Physics Network, created five years ago to counteract a decline in the subject in the English region, has launched its second phase.

Universities are too focused on students who go ¡°punting on the Wear or the Cam¡±, while gaining degree-awarding powers is cloaked in magical secrecy.

Almost two-thirds of graduates in unpaid internships six months after leaving university are female, according to new research.

The government has defended its innovation policy after criticisms that the lack of a coherent strategy was harming UK business.

Playing sport at university is linked to a higher salary and fewer periods of unemployment, new research has claimed.

A British university has purchased the manuscript of a literary landmark at a price of close to a million pounds.

Hefce refuses to comment on US parent¡¯s struggles

Major study quantifies price of immigration regulation

Long-term study of alumni careers questions coalition¡¯s STEM emphasis

Students will demand ¡®full-time professionals¡¯, it is claimed, but others say the contracts will increase

Institutions must fulfil their historic mission of developing student potential, says former vice-chancellor

Academics invited to publish papers, solicit reviews on new scholarly site

Edinburgh¡¯s principal tells conference that universities can target disadvantaged schoolchildren via the online courses

Overweight applicants disadvantaged in face-to-face interviews

Smaller institutions unlikely to benefit from revised low-cost lending terms

Female researchers take to the streets to entertain the public with cutting-edge research

Online provision appeals to cash-strapped, unstable nations

Consultation shows widespread resistance to regulator¡¯s proposal

Offa data another blow to ministerial claims of ¡®competitive pressure¡¯

Can an academic conference calmly debate Israel and boycotts?

These Tudor-era playing cards were found in the Muniment Room at Christ¡¯s College, Cambridge, during renovation works in the 1960s and now reside in the College Library

Cupp scheme offers lessons for sector. Elizabeth Gibney reports

David Cope defends merits of ¡®monetising¡¯ in impact-focused era

Scholars dismayed at MA partnership with private university

Lecturers aid students in ¡®School of the Damned¡¯

Matthew Reisz meets Harvard superstar Michael Sandel to discuss the preservation of the public good

Western universities don¡¯t expect new emir to shake up status quo

Higher degree holders may face as much of a struggle to find jobs as those with first degrees, Higher Education Statistics Agency data indicate

Willetts aims to fill ¡®black hole¡¯ left by failure of higher education bill

The European Commission has announced plans to invest €22 billion (?19 billion) in public-private research and innovation projects over the next seven years.

The research excellence framework risks turning British economics into ¡°a purely quaint academic subject with no connection to the real world¡±, an academic paper has warned.

Fewer than 15 per cent of graduate employers have said they will use a new system for recording student achievement when choosing who to recruit.

The ?1.1 billion annual investment in science capital announced in last month¡¯s spending round is the biggest ¡°for decades¡± and must not be wasted.

Universities should play a bigger role in driving growth and should be more accessible to smaller businesses, according to a government-commissioned review.

Two university lecturers branded as being part of ¡°bad academia¡± by the education secretary have denounced his proposals for the new National Curriculum.

More than 19,000 extra students have applied to university this year compared to 2012, new figures show.

London mayor Boris Johnson has provoked a storm of criticism on Twitter after joking that women in Malaysia need to go to university to find a husband.

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Ministers should focus more resources on explaining the student finance system to parents to avoid children being put off university by debt, a thinktank says

Outsourced cleaners from Latin America have picketed a London university over calls to have them put on the institution¡¯s payroll.

Scholars at two UK universities are to recreate the 400-year-old walking adventures of celebrated playwright Ben Jonson using social media.

More than 3,000 higher education staff were made redundant as the sector prepared for the introduction of ?9,000 tuition fees, a new study says.

Do your students know their vellum from their valium and their buffer zones from their buffet counterparts?

Girls are outperforming boys in the sciences but are still not choosing to take such subjects ahead of university, a study on vocational qualifications has found.

Students entering university from state schools perform better than expected when securing a job after graduation compared with the privately educated, a new report says.

David Cameron has told David Willetts to build the UK¡¯s offer to overseas students into a more persuasive ¡°package¡± and urged him to attract more foreign universities to Britain.

The University of Manchester has become the latest university to launch a bond issue to raise money for capital investments.

Former home secretary David Blunkett is to become a visiting professor at the world¡¯s first centre for the public understanding of politics, at the University of Sheffield.

Graduates from London South Bank University are the least likely to be in a job or studying six months after leaving, latest employment data have revealed.

Music schools and graduates read?financial notices and strike fresh notes

Calls to restrict fields¡¯ funds and scope of study alarm US academics