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The leading lawyer and wife of the former British prime minister on why she applied to the LSE over Oxbridge, tuition fees and the importance of international students

New legislation would bring higher education institutions in the West Bank under Israeli law

Canadian scientists¡¯ impressive campaign for increased basic science funding risks splintering as victory looms, says Jim Woodgett

Barring controversial speakers has a long heritage and the Office for Students should be very wary of cracking down on it, argues Evan Smith

Collaboration within the Gulf region was rare but now the few oases in the desert risk running dry, says Hilal Lashuel 

Introduced to help boost technology transfer amid renewed political focus on ¡®industrial strategy¡¯, the KEF aims to complement the REF and TEF. But how will it work? Is it even necessary? And is the UK really underperforming at commercialising its research? Rachael Pells reports

Aston University head warns mooted cuts to tuition fees in England will only benefit wealthiest graduates

With student numbers falling as fees rise, drastic action is needed to widen participation, says Claire Callender

Average salary of university leader in country stands at A$890,000 (?509,000)

Muddled thinking behind the creation of the new Office for Students risks damaging the UK's world-class universities, says Lord Hunt of Kings Heath

Joel Mullan shares some of the ways that digital technologies could address the challenges posed by accelerated degree courses

In first public appearance since his appointment, Sam Gyimah claims Labour¡¯s plan to scrap fees is unrealistic

Working with pen and paper and cut off from the outside world, Ali Kaya wrote three papers, re-deriving physical formulas from scratch

The politics lecturer talks Corbyn, computer games and reggae music

President¡¯s broadside against Bo?azi?i University raises questions over Islamisation of institutions and international links

Institutional leaders tell survey that current avalanche of criticism ¡®lacks substance¡¯

Pakistani journals lack the professionalism and expertise to support a thriving knowledge economy, say Abdur Rehman Cheema and Mehvish Riaz

The UK¡¯s new higher education minister needs to move beyond recent spats to prioritise science, funding and mitigating Brexit, says David Bell

The government¡¯s unilateral move to rein in costs is the inevitable result of a volatile and emotive political climate, says Warren Bebbington

Presidential elections are looming, but government pressure on universities should ensure that students pose no threat to the ruling regime, says Ararat Osipian

John Morgan travels to the University of California, Berkeley, a key battleground in the campus culture wars, to assess the mood towards US higher education and the threats that it faces

Cabinet reshuffle offers universities the chance of a relationship reset before they are likely caught in the first swell of a global wave of funding reviews

Baroness Deech tells parliamentary committee that UK universities are ¡®complicit¡¯ in censoring lawful speech while giving hate preachers access to students

'Mind-boggling' that the Department for Education does not regularly collect data on attendance, committee hears

Three student candidates deemed 'appointable' to regulator's board were overlooked in favour of engineering undergraduate

Ongoing ministerial education reviews risk treating technical and academic education as separate pathways, says Quintin McKellar, and this could be to the detriment of both

Experts warn that prospective recruits may choose to study elsewhere if they do not feel welcome

Privately run vocational courses likely to be big beneficiaries of Gratuidad, which supports poorer students

Economics scholar estimates impact of new excise tax on university endowments 

Immigration minister who led crackdown on ¡®abuse¡¯ of student visa system says it ¡®serves nobody¡¯ to pretend students do not count towards figures

Dorothy Bishop will not miss Jo Johnson, but is under no illusions that new minister Sam Gyimah will overturn any of his reforms

As Brexit threatens funding shortfall, European Commission appears convinced research is better done continent-wide

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Former Downing Street policy guru Nick Timothy says former education secretary resisted university funding review and potential tuition fee cuts

How can more degrees be the solution to urban deprivation when poor areas offer no graduate careers? asks Robert Hesketh

Chancellor of world¡¯s biggest higher education system sees Trump immigration plan as ¡®antithesis¡¯ of American values

The Office for Budget Responsibility¡¯s methodology is of incredibly low quality, says Nick Hillman

Jo Johnson¡¯s support for free expression unravels when it comes to Palestine, says Jonathan Rosenhead

New in-depth look at the price of hosting EU and non-EU students shows benefits far outweigh cost to taxpayer

A precise breakdown of foreign learners¡¯ contributions to all areas and sectors of British life could help finally move the group out of the net migration count

Sam Gyimah and Damian Hinds will remove obstacles to major review and keep universities in the media spotlight, say experts  

Sir Anthony Seldon explains why he was pleased to see Toby Young resign from the Office for Students, despite initially applauding the appointment  

Nick Hillman reflects on Jo Johnson's eventful two-and-a-half years as minister for universities and science 

Chris Parr looks at the issues that THE's Twitter followers think the new universities minister should be tackling

Former prisons minister takes on brief as predecessor moved to Department for Transport

Controversial journalist resigns from English higher education's new regulator after his appointment was condemned in House of Commons

Former work and pensions minister replaces Justine Greening, who leaves the government

New higher education bill would increase cost of university and likelihood of scams, say experts

Governments could ¡®abandon¡¯ support for sector unless countries that attract graduates recompense those that taught them, academic warns

Scholars argue swelling targets for teaching and research are making it harder for universities to have a regional impact

Appointing right-wing journalist to Office for Students¡¯ board over scientists is ¡®surprising¡¯ and ¡®bizarre¡¯, say senior academics

Home Office threats to deport her may have been an ¡®unfortunate error¡¯, but Eva Johanna Holmberg is still wary about the future

The uncapped system had many benefits but its cost was ultimately too high for politicians to bear, writes Andrew Norton

Tory controversialist hits back against ¡®politically motivated attacks¡¯ as he joins England¡¯s higher education regulator

Universities fear they will be forced to subsidise the cost of regulating new entrants to the sector

University and College Union says selection of ¡®Tory cheerleader¡¯ raises questions about new regulator¡¯s role in English sector

Concerns raised over moves to ¡®mute¡¯ students¡¯ union and potential for far-Right figures on university boards

Certain disciplines and institutions likely to suffer from pegging of teaching funding

UUK chief executive Alistair Jarvis outlines how he hopes the HE sector will work with the new OfS

Promise of free higher education for majority of nation¡¯s youth greeted with scepticism by university sector