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The most senior education civil servant in Britain has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Reading.

The number of students at UK universities has gone up by almost a third in the last 10 years with those coming from outside the European Union more than doubling, according to a new report.

Former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville has been elected chancellor of the University of Cambridge after receiving more than half the votes in a ballot of members of the institution¡¯s senate.

Research on the evidence for A-level grade inflation has prompted claims that elite universities are being damaged.

The switch from measuring widening participation via students' socio-economic classification to free school meal data is not fair, an admissions expert has said.

The president of the US' pre-eminent university is planning an innovative future. Jon Marcus reports

A university aims to attract research investment with 'collaborative centre'. John Morgan writes

The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has called for "serious consideration" to be given to a proposal for a government-backed loan for taught postgraduate students.

Begun as a counterweight to journal impact tables, Faculty of 1000 starts its own. Paul Jump writes

In 1894, a young Jewish artillery officer, Captain Alfred Dreyfus, was convicted of betraying French military secrets to the Germans and sentenced to solitary confinement in French Guiana. It soon turned out that he had been found guilty on trumped-up evidence.

Conservatives are keen to follow Swedish, Danish lead in charging non-EU students. Jack Grove writes

Supporting reconstruction in Iraq drove home the value of teaching, an HEA Fellow tells Jack Grove

Mooted change in legal status may allow investors to obtain degree-awarding powers. John Morgan writes

Suspended academic launches own investigation and decries 'smear campaign'. Paul Jump reports

Lord Sainsbury tells Simon Baker that the coalition is failing to learn from Labour's policy mistakes

The National Union of Students has warned lecturers that student support for industrial action over pensions could be withdrawn.

The use of bibliometric data to assess humanities scholars could become more widespread with the launch of a citation index of academic books.

Scholars identify weaknesses in a proposed sector-wide 'reference tariff'. Jack Grove reports

BBC and v-cs have run a 'coordinated series of attacks', university claims. David Matthews writes

Matthew Reisz on a UK-supported research centre helping tackle violence against women in Kurdistan

'Lack of trust' and course mismatches mean study abroad may go unrecognised. Jack Grove reports

The University of Wales Institute Cardiff has become the latest institution to distance itself from the scandal-hit University of Wales.

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British lecturers fighting discriminatory employment practices at Italian universities have been cheered by a meeting on the issue between the countries¡¯ two ministers for universities.

The US attorney general has been asked by a senior higher education representative to intervene to tackle the ¡°chilling effects¡± of anti-immigration laws at a state level.

The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has appointed former employment lawyer Chuka Umunna as the new shadow business secretary following a cabinet reshuffle today.

North American administrators call high rates of plagiarism 'tip of the iceberg'. Jon Marcus reports

Sally Hunt welcomes challenge from increasingly influential Left wing of union. John Morgan reports

Curricula ignoring modern professional needs and UK's industrial heritage. Matthew Reisz reports

As her Greenwich time ends, Baroness Blackstone tells Matthew Reisz why coalition reforms will fail

This mummified crocodile from the Greco-Roman period is held by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and was recently the subject of large-scale conservation treatment and technical study.

The UK and others are best for efficiency and bang for buck. John Morgan analyses the

Academics are being asked by their union to work minimum hours in the first stage of fresh industrial action over pensions - potentially followed by strikes and a boycott of the research excellence framework.

Willetts hails fewer limits to business links with universities at Tory conference. Simon Baker writes

Four-year courses at universities in Scotland will incur additional expense. David Matthews reports

The University of Wales' international business will continue to expand despite its decision to stop validating degrees unless they are "designed and fully controlled" by the institution.

Short-term contracts and a lack of permanent openings risk causing long-term damage to UK academic science, a report prepared for David Willetts warns.

New 'Sorbonne League' at heart of effort to create world-class elite. Jack Grove reports from Paris

Funding council chief's no-show to defend policy 'beggared belief'. Paul Jump reports

Academy leaders should exploit the public interest in higher education. Simon Baker previews a debate

Universities' efforts to collect impact case studies for the 2014 research excellence framework may be in full flow, but uncertainty and confusion still abound.

Simon Baker gets the scoop on a website offering expert insight on breaking news direct to the public

Underinvestment blamed on funds siphoned off for loss-making courses, writes David Matthews

The University and College Union has urged the UK funding councils to allow female academics to submit one fewer output to the research excellence framework for each pregnancy they have had during the census period.

The sector's international unit has criticised the government for failing to include internationalisation in the recent higher education White Paper, while underlining the need for "positive messaging" to overseas governments.

The Nobel Prize in chemistry has been awarded to Israeli researcher Daniel Shechtman for his discovery of quasicrystals.

A college that offers courses validated by the University of Wales has been linked to an alleged scam that helped foreign students to cheat their way to qualifications.