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Miley Cyrus performs onstage during her 'Bangerz' tour

Miley Cyrus studies? Not the gimmick it might sound

The pop star’s work may not be high art, but the US professor behind a new Cyrus syllabus believes it is a gateway to the analysis of race, class and gender

A survey of 100 black staff and students at UK universities shows that 73 per cent believe their institution has a “poor” or “very poor” attitude to racial equality. Posed by model

More than half of BME university lecturers and staff have suffered racial abuse at work

More than half of black and ethnic minority lecturers and staff believe they have suffered racial discrimination at university, according to new research.

International students do not have the same entitlement to loans as their UK counterparts

Tuition fee hike blamed as international students at UK universities fall by a quarter

The first decline in the number of international students at English universities for almost three decades is revealed in research published today.

Speaker John Bercow named chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire

The Speaker of the House of Commons John Bercow has been named the new chancellor of the University of Bedfordshire.

Robin Lane Fox has been blasted for his 'misogynistic' comment

Oxford don criticised for claiming women's dresses should look like a 'stormable fortress'

Robin Lane Fox made the remark in a gardening column for the Financial Times

The philosopher AC Grayling, pictured here in 2012 when first setting up New College, has said his elite 'alternative' university will ignore candidates' A-level results

Elite ‘Oxbridge alternative’ university to stop basing admissions on A-level results due to concerns over standards

London-based New College of the Humanities to make offers based on interviews and earlier exam scores

Back in the black: vice-chancellor Professor Malcolm Gillies says there is now a glimmer of light

London Metropolitan University has restored its finances and reputation - but at a price

The university has had a wretched time of late, being hit by a £36.5m fine and stripped of the right to sponsor students from outside the EU

Cambridge University's Trinity College

Cambridge raises A-level grades needed to study science degrees

Science, maths, medicine and engineering degrees will all now require at least two A*s and one A

University and College Union threatens legal action against any university which docks the pay of lecturers who strike on Thursday

A union is threatening to take legal action against any university which docks its members a day's pay for taking part in upcoming strike action.

Professors' pay dispute with British universities escalates - as academics threaten to stop marking students' final exams

Lecturers' union UCU is planning to disrupt this term with a series of two-hour walkouts over pay and conditions

Sussex University dramatically lifts exclusions on five suspended students

The so-called "Sussex 5" reinstated after pressure from students, MPs - and Cara Delevingne

Samuel Osborne, psychology student: 'We’ve been given marks for work but we don’t know how that fits together into the big picture'

Should British universities grade students using an American-style system?

It has taken almost a decade of discussion, but it appears that the time has come for reform of degree classifications.

UUK also warned universities the British National Party is not a proscribed organisation - even though some student unions have adopted a policy of “no platform for racists” towards it

Freedom of speech is not an 'absolute', university leaders warn

Universities' governing body warns institutions need to balance freedom of speech with respect

The success of online courses such as those offered by FutureLearn is due to their accessibility – they can be done anywhere

Through the learning glass: New schemes such as FutureLearn are allowing prospective students to take free courses online

Students can schedule the lessons around jobs, children and other responsibilities

Campbell's loop: The former spin doctor knows plenty about the media's inner workings

Who better to give lectures to journalism students than Alastair Campbell?

Now, if I were the sort of lazy, formulaically minded, indeed "garbagic" journalist that Alastair Campbell so understandably despises, this article would be very easy to compose. It would go something like this:

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Shaun Evans as Endeavour interviews a prisoner as he tries to get to the bottom of a police cover up
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Raheem Sterling and Luis Suarez celebrate during Liverpool's game with Norwich
football Another hurdle is out of the way for Brendan Rodgers' side
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Portrait of Queen Elizabeth-II by David Bailey which has been released to mark her 88th birthday
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The star of the sitcom ‘Miranda’ is hugely popular with mainstream audiences
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The man who could have been champion of the world

Rubin ‘Hurricane’ Carter and the Bob Dylan song that immortalised him
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Didn’t she do well?

Miranda Hart lined up for ‘Generation Game’ revival
The Middle East we must confront in the future will be a Mafiastan ruled by money

The Middle East we must confront in the future will be a Mafiastan ruled by money

In Iraq, mafiosi already run almost the entire oil output of the south of the country
Before they were famous

Before they were famous

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Martin Freeman’s casting in Fargo is genius

Martin Freeman’s casting in Fargo is a stroke of genius

Series is brimming with characters and stories all its own
How I brokered a peace deal with Robert Mugabe: Roy Agyemang reveals the delicate diplomacy needed to get Zimbabwe’s President to sit down with the BBC

How I brokered a peace deal with Robert Mugabe

Roy Agyemang reveals the delicate diplomacy needed to get Zimbabwe’s President to sit down with the BBC
Video of British Muslims dancing to Pharrell Williams's hit Happy attacked as 'sinful'

British Muslims's Happy video attacked as 'sinful'

The four-minute clip by Honesty Policy has had more than 300,000 hits on YouTube
Church of England-raised Michael Williams describes the unexpected joys in learning about his family's Jewish faith

Michael Williams: Do as I do, not as I pray

Church of England-raised Williams describes the unexpected joys in learning about his family's Jewish faith
A History of the First World War in 100 moments: A visit to the Front Line by the Prime Minister's wife

A History of the First World War in 100 moments

A visit to the Front Line by the Prime Minister's wife
Comedian Jenny Collier: 'Sexism I experienced on stand-up circuit should be extinct'

Jenny Collier: 'Sexism on stand-up circuit should be extinct'

The comedian's appearance at a show on the eve of International Women's Day was cancelled because they had "too many women" on the bill
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Cannes Film Festival

Ken Loach and Mike Leigh to fight it out for the Palme d'Or
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The concept album makes surprise top ten return

Neolithic opus from Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson is unexpected success
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Jury still out on Pellegrini

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