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Amidst warp drives, transporters and phasers there is one Star Trek technology that is close to becoming real ¨C and organisers of the US-based X prize want UK researchers to make it happen.

Take Mooc claims with a pinch of salt, manager advises technology conference. Chris Parr reports

Will Obama-Romney race end in higher education cuts regardless of victor? Elizabeth Gibney writes

MP and historian Tristram Hunt tells John Morgan about reviving lost skills and improving teaching

Family ties are a big influence on which location people choose for study. Julie Hare reports

Elizabeth Gibney meets the left-wing Chilean youth leader with a message for European students

But losing the owls from university brands may not be such a wise move. Matthew Reisz reports

Global survey shows how alma maters can connect with MBA crowd. David Matthews reports

Roehampton director calls for bonfire of providers with a sense of entitlement. John Elmes reports

South Africa reaches 'tipping point on unbalanced affirmative action'. David Matthews reports

Experts say many young people deterred by fear of debt are missed by Polar data. Jack Grove reports

Russell Group chair issues warning over threat to ¡®hard-won eminence¡¯. John Morgan reports

Chomsky among those decrying the removal of a Manchester Met professor. Jack Grove writes

Dissenters raise concerns over Cambridge bond issue's property element. John Morgan reports

UK elite's proportion of income from state sources

Conference considers reasons for 10 per cent drop in HE in FE numbers. David Matthews writes

Lords call for more study abroad

Lecturers at the University of East London are set to hold a one-day strike in a row over proposed changes to staff workloads.

Fewer than 45 per cent of continuing overseas students at London Metropolitan University have committed to stay with the troubled institution, given the choice of staying or transferring elsewhere.

The chairman of the Association of Business Schools has attacked the "misplaced tyranny" that science, technology, engineering and maths subjects have in policymaking circles and argued that leadership and management are equally crucial to reviving the economy.

Two American academics have won the Nobel Prize in economics for work that has led to more efficient ways of matching doctors with hospitals and organ donors with transplant patients.

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"Organisational effectiveness is not viewed as simply foregrounding cost savings, but instead a much more complex interplay of influences and drivers that facilitate opportunities for enhancing the ways in which we manage movement."

Despite the riots that swept English cities in August 2011, the UK is seen as the safest place to study by international students, according to a new British Council report.

University lecturers will not join industrial action later this month over a 1 per cent pay offer after members voted against a strike.

Students should not notice any difference at Swansea Metropolitan University despite it officially merging with another institution, the university's outgoing vice-chancellor has said.

The Queen will award up to six Regius professorships to UK universities to mark the Diamond Jubilee, the Cabinet Office announced today.

Higher education has room for both high ideals and pragmatism, Matthew Reisz hears in Bologna

These are among the approximately 200 chairs on display at the University of Helsinki until the end of the year as part of an exhibition titled Seats of Learning.

Scholar bemoans impact of employability agenda on academic standards. Matthew Reisz reports

Billionaire-backed Oxford school takes leaf out of US book. David Matthews reports

Universities are taking steps to ensure that students use social media responsibly, learns Jon Marcus

Universities 'falling over themselves' to hire staff to handle REF case studies. Paul Jump reports

The new director of the London School of Economics has scotched persistent rumours about the institution's privatisation, affirming that it will remain in the state system.

Euro survey shows UK to be home of scholarly discontent and regret. Matthew Reisz reports

David Matthews reports on bid to show clemency to PhD students as cash from Damascus dries up

Laggards, not AAB policy, caused hiccups, suggests minister. John Morgan reports from Birmingham

A Tory MP and a Labour colleague from a parliamentary committee have called for cross-party consensus on withdrawing overseas students from net migration figures so the government can make the policy shift without being accused by the opposition of "fiddling the figures".

Bonuses paid to investment staff working within the sector's main pension scheme almost doubled as it closed its final salary scheme to new members.

Institutions say they will not be adopting student report card scheme. David Matthews reports

Strike action considered after Birmingham plans to make department history. Paul Jump writes

Plaid Cymru's shadow education minister has called for tuition fee support to be withdrawn from Welsh students who study in other parts of the UK.

Why are almost-lifelike animated characters creepy? Chris Parr talks to a researcher exploring the 'uncanny valley'

The University of Cambridge has become the latest higher education institution to raise private finance for building projects, announcing the issue of a ?350 million bond.

Two US scientists have won the 2012 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for studies revealing how cells in the human body sense their environment.

More than 1,700 people have signed a petition protesting against the suspension of an internationally-renowned psychology professor at Manchester Metropolitan University.

Two pioneers of quantum optics, a field that has paved the way for super-fast computing, have been awarded the 2012 Nobel Prize for physics.

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