Students

The state is confronting student protest with an iron fist while promising to relax its grip on the academy. Jack Grove reports from the country

As Times Higher Education launches the BRICS & Emerging Economies Rankings 2014, Jim O’Neill says the UK can help the world and itself by going global

Students have occupied the University of London’s Senate House in a protest over pay, pensions and financial accountability.

Social mobility could be harmed if cuts of £45 million are focused on the so-called “widening participation premium”, a new study says

Students have reoccupied a conference centre at the University of Sussex that was at the centre of previous protests over the outsourcing of services.

Open letter from around 100 staff condemns police action

Sector’s report on decline failed to provide answers, says UEL centre’s director John Storan

Student collaboration blends skills to take fresh look at knowledge

‘Student contract’ fails to forestall exodus as academy reels from massive cuts

Liberals and conservatives argue over merits of intergenerational Pay It Forward plan

Felipe Fernández-Armesto judges a revealing after-dinner game

Petting animals can help to overcome social barriers which can lead to improved learning for students, says Erin McKenna

Uncovering tales of ancient university’s scholars of colour

Press offices attempt news management via popular data source

London partners unhappy as university scraps ‘unfit for purpose’ model

Students’ unhappiness with the number of contact hours they get at university has been detailed in a new report

A students’ union has expressed its anger after a police officer was apparently caught on camera trying to recruit an activist to spy on students

The Green Party is organising protests across the country against plans to sell off the student loan book.

The battle over plans to close the University of London Union has seen its president, Michael Chessum, arrested.

Effort to improve quantitative skills in social sciences must go farther, John MacInnes says

A mentor provides far more than inspiration and sage advice, says Tom Palaima, who fears for the future of such guiding relationships in the era of Moocs

By Carl Straumsheim, for Inside Higher Ed

Sport’s on-campus growth reflects rising number of overseas students in country

Richard Larschan explains how events at his university arising from the bombings led to his long-resisted retirement

Social class ‘still biggest predictor of university attendance post-Robbins report’, conferences hear

Robert Eaglestone and Simon Kövesi ponder the problems that could sink the subject

The Prince of Wales owned up to “meddling” as he announced the launch of 20 new bursaries for students from less affluent backgrounds on television courses

A group of students have won a major prize by using videogame technology to create a 3D 17^th-century environment from historic British Library maps.

Some institutions’ appeals panels deny students a chance of justice, says Daniel Sokol

Experts discuss the development and legacy of the epochal report on its golden anniversary

Panagiotis Tsigaris found the online learning tool to be a positive addition to his courses

Felipe Fernández-Armesto on the inanity of questionnaires assessing teaching

Faculty-in-residence keen to offer advice and a listening ear

The dramatic decline in part-time students will continue this year, according to a report that calls for an “urgent push” to promote such study.

Some continental efforts to ensure integrity are ‘primitive’, study finds

David Latchman welcomes reforms for restoring funding for some upskilling students, but argues the government should go further

Disabled students are calling on universities to do more to help them to access campus facilities.

Hepi: scrapped courses undermine widening participation

A students’ union vice-president was arrested after objecting to the conduct of police officers searching for drugs at a university party.

Many universities are still failing to follow official guidance on when to report student complaints to the sector’s ombudsman, it has been warned.

Sally Feldman on students’ transition from adolescence to adulthood

Student expenditure supports more than 830,000 jobs in the UK, a new study says.

Prospective students can now search for information about higher education on their mobile phones after the government’s Unistats website was updated.

The National Union of Students is hosting its first-ever Twitter question and answer sessions, offering first years advice on a range of topics.

Universities should ensure they have strategies to stop students feeling homesick as they begin their studies, experts say.

Students paying £9,000 fees may be socialising less and working more than their counterparts under the lower-fee regime, new research suggests.

OIA orders Warwick to pay £1,000 but finds no evidence that Smadar Bakovic was marked down unfairly

Toni Pearce confident BIS negotiations will pay dividends for students

Scholars say culture of deference stifles development

Rare recognition by standards watchdog

A physics/teaching degree has produced its first graduates

Some of the world’s most powerful graduates demonstrate the influence of UK universities

A cross-party group of MPs has launched an inquiry that will look at the black and minority ethnic community’s interaction with higher education.

But Hesa data offer signs of hope for shorter courses

Academics visiting Istanbul for a major conference were among those caught up in student-led protests sparked by the death of a demonstrator.

Universities in the North have the most varied nightlife while London institutions are rated highly for their political scene, a new survey suggests.

The Liberal Democrats are trying to push through legislation to stop the National Union of Students campaigning against them at the next general election, Labour MPs have claimed.

A consultation on changes to pharmacy education has been launched to address concerns over an over-supply of graduates in the field

The Student Loans Company has sacked four people in the last five years for their inappropriate use of the social networking site Facebook

Nearly two thirds of students are now working part time to help fund their studies, according to new research.