Imperial professor calls for tighter regulation on the salaries that tech companies can offer to researchers at Guardian event. More...

We’re losing traditional artistic techniques, one critic laments – but others say this view is outdated. More...

A university received a £900,000 emergency loan from the higher education regulator in England this year, it has been revealed, in a move that calls into question claims by the regulator that it would not bail out struggling institutions. More...

Thousands of university students have been targeted with fake tax refund emails in an attempt to steal their banking and personal details, HM Revenue and Customs has said. More...

Anti-racism campaigners have claimed a victory after a leading figure in a far-right German political party cancelled a planned trip to the UK to address the Oxford Union. More...

Oxford University forges intercultural understanding with anthropological treasures. More...

Eight months after Oxford announced the production of Physic Gin, distilled from plants in the university’s botanic garden, Cambridge has created its own spirit. Costing nearly £40 a bottle, £5 more than its Oxonian counterpart, Curator’s Gin claims to benefit from a variety of floral flavourings, and ingredients including lavender, an unusual “green ginger” rosemary and berries from the dozens of varieties of juniper grown in the garden. The final ingredient, it says, is apples from a tree descended from the one that sent fruit tumbling on to Sir Isaac Newton’s head. More...

Pressure is growing on the government to reverse its scrapping of maintenance grants in England, after a second influential parliamentary committee called for financial support for disadvantaged students to be reinstated. More...

The Royal Society published a report in 2010 that mentioned, almost in passing, that the proportion of Stem (science, technology, engineering and maths) postgraduates who would end up with professorships was 0.45%. More...

The public have become sceptical of experts. One reason is that too many have used the platform their position gives them to indulge their prejudices. By all means criticise the university funding system, but do so with argument and reason. More...