Two American academics have won the Nobel Prize in economics for work that has led to more efficient ways of matching doctors with hospitals and organ donors with transplant patients.
"Organisational effectiveness is not viewed as simply foregrounding cost savings, but instead a much more complex interplay of influences and drivers that facilitate opportunities for enhancing the ways in which we manage movement."
Despite the riots that swept English cities in August 2011, the UK is seen as the safest place to study by international students, according to a new British Council report.
Students should not notice any difference at Swansea Metropolitan University despite it officially merging with another institution, the university's outgoing vice-chancellor has said.
The new director of the London School of Economics has scotched persistent rumours about the institution's privatisation, affirming that it will remain in the state system.
A Tory MP and a Labour colleague from a parliamentary committee have called for cross-party consensus on withdrawing overseas students from net migration figures so the government can make the policy shift without being accused by the opposition of "fiddling the figures".
These are among the approximately 200 chairs on display at the University of Helsinki until the end of the year as part of an exhibition titled Seats of Learning.
The University of Cambridge has become the latest higher education institution to raise private finance for building projects, announcing the issue of a £350 million bond.
More than 1,700 people have signed a petition protesting against the suspension of an internationally-renowned psychology professor at Manchester Metropolitan University.
British developmental biologist Sir John Gurdon has won the 2012 Nobel Prize for physiology or medicine for his discovery that mature cells can be reprogrammed.
International students arriving in London will no longer have to endure long queues to register with the police following changes to the registration procedure.
David Willetts has warned that some Scottish universities are anxious as to whether they will remain "properly financed" without receiving tuition fees from students in the country.
There will be no Nobel Prize this year connected to the apparent discovery of the fabled Higgs boson particle, according to a citation analyst with a history of successfully predicting winners.
International students are facing "unacceptable and humiliating" difficulties in registering with the police, according to a letter to David Cameron signed by the heads of two London institutions.
Aberystwyth University has been given a "limited confidence" judgement by the Quality Assurance Agency over how it handles certain partnerships with other institutions.
Queen Mary, University of London, could see strike action within a month after members of the University and College Union voted to take industrial action over a redundancy scheme at two of the college's schools.
Universities are missing out on applications, as well as thousands of pounds in income, because their websites are outdated and unappealing to prospective students, a digital agency has warned.
