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But study finds while grade point averages are increasing at four-year institutions, that's not the case at community colleges, reports Inside Higher Ed's Scott Jaschik

Plan to rent university estate via travel app seen as solution to higher education funding worries

Football team being doused in ‘milky fermented alcohol’ shines light on practice more commonly associated with the US

Marquette University row follows professor’s online criticism of ‘liberal’ colleague

Research shows continuing lack of historical and critical perspective in most bachelor's degrees

Replacements sought for departing Craig Calhoun and Sir Leszek Borysiewicz

Wiley and Elsevier attacked over failures to deposit papers as research funder warns it could withdraw funding for hybrid journals

Judges rule in favour of two students who brought case after ETS fraud claims

Six per cent of young first degree entrants fail to advance to second year, Hesa data show

People contemplating a criminal career might do well to stay in and do their homework

Vrije Universiteit Brussel cancels classes for the rest of the week

Improvements required in two out of four areas at college where students claimed £259 million in state loans in three years

Trend that started in US high schools is increasingly being reported on the country's university campuses, reports Josh Logue for Inside Higher Ed

There are many lessons to be learned from universities around the world, says new British Academy report

Hefce report on sector finances also warns of fall in overseas entrants

Getting politicians to learn the lessons of history can sometimes require an indirect approach, Queen Mary event hears

Funding council also plans to register itself as England’s official quality body

Countries make a commitment to deepen partnership in quality assurance for transnational education

Wide-ranging policy document notes importance of university provision in plans for teacher training reform

Campaigners believe 1994 Zellick guidelines may be at odds with equalities and human rights legislation

The social historian, who was second v-c of Sussex and later chancellor of the Open University, was 94

Academic is awarded Abel Prize by the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters for solving Fermat’s Last Theorem

Landmark documents and artefacts in the history of science and religion go on public view for the first time

Jeffrey Lehman says American universities have the resources and autonomy to be innovative

Researchers set out how academic insights can build trust between different groups

Growth in university leaver vacancies is slowing, AGR study suggests

But Owen Paterson’s claims rejected by NUS president Megan Dunn, who warns that leaving the EU would harm students

Banners put up across Chinese university campuses have strange take on annual event

Elizabeth Garrett announced last month that she was fighting colon cancer

University of Illinois research finds ‘brilliant’ or ‘genius’ more often used to describe male academics

In the wake of Cyclone Winston, incoming v-c Nigel Healey says he will ensure emergency plans are top-notch for natural disasters

Experts in everything from accountancy to China and spirituality to skills strategies appointed fellows by the Academy of Social Sciences

But authors of original paper hit back, saying latest assessment is ‘very optimistic’

Legislation will allow overseas students to include time spent studying in Canada in application

Letter from Sajid Javid and Jo Johnson also sets out funding for 2016-17 and issues warning to Hefce on quality assurance

Although overall resource funding will rise, most of this extra money will go to multidisciplinary research

German academic looking at UK system raises concerns over incentives created by research excellence framework

EU commissioner tells THE that excellent science requires European and global collaboration

UK among the worst performers in analysis of 69 national academies

Nanyang Technological University president Bertil Andersson says Singapore has been much better at improving universities

Almost half of defectors drop out of higher education in South Korea

Former students of Trump University appear in campaign videos criticising tycoon’s bid for the White House

State's new campus concealed carry law leads to warnings for academics on handling students who may have guns

BIS Committee urges government to implement full TEF only when metrics are right

The invention might be a ‘world first’ in robotics, says the university

Consultant downplays fears that leaving the EU could see overseas sources of funding dry up

Hepi report says teaching assessment should be delayed to allow for lessons from Ofsted and Care Quality Commission to be incorporated

No more than 75 per cent of a discipline’s students should be of the same gender, says funding council

Credit agency says the pace of change will quicken as governments seek cost savings

Student protesters at the US institution want the name of the gardens at the university changed, reports Ellen Wexler for Inside Higher Ed

Scholar describes how mathematicians take their audience on a journey to new peaks of discovery

King’s College London professor of education and social justice will be first woman to lead IoE

Figures suggest Oxford and Cambridge among seven Russell Group institutions with lower proportion of poorer students compared with 10 years ago

Free speech campaigners argue that campuses should not be entirely safe

Survey suggests 3 per cent of higher and further education workers have been physically assaulted because they are homosexual, bisexual or transsexual

Law professor at Queen Mary University of London organises open days for refugees and asylum seekers

Civil society groups attack move as ‘gross violation’ of academic autonomy

Chinese Ministry of Education directive wants students abroad to have a ‘positive patriotic energy’

Study suggests ‘higher consumer orientation associated with lower academic performance’

Researcher recommends reassessing selection criteria for PhD funding as several great scientists did not gain a first or a 2:1