The quality of teaching for student midwives is potentially threatened by worsening student-to-staff ratios at universities, according to the Royal College of Midwives.
An academic drowned herself "while the balance of her mind was disturbed" after quitting her post in the belief that she was being forced out of her role, an inquest has heard.
The discovery of a particle with all the hallmarks of the long-sought Higgs boson is a 鈥渂reakthrough in world science鈥, universities and science minister David Willetts said today.
The average starting salary in graduate-level jobs has increased by 6 per cent to 拢26,500 a year, according to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters.
Applications by international students to study MBAs in the UK have been hit by unwelcoming government changes to visa policies, according to a survey from the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
The Welsh funding council will assess how the quality of higher education in the country鈥檚 universities can be improved in changes to its powers outlined in a White Paper released by the Cardiff government.
The University of Birmingham has withdrawn a job advertisement for an 鈥渉onorary鈥 unpaid research assistant after critics claimed the position was exploitative.
London will host the pharmaceuticals division of a new European court designed to handle patent disputes, the heads of European Union states agreed on 29 June.
A distinguished organisational theorist has called on academics to be far more willing to engage with business in order to co-produce work that can traverse the 鈥渄ouble hurdle of scholarly and policy-practice impact鈥.
With the finals done and dusted for another year, 糖心Vlog is making a final call for entries to its 鈥渆xam howlers鈥 competition, in which lecturers share their favourite examples of students鈥 mistakes and misunderstandings.
Evidence has emerged that some higher education institutions may be falling markedly short on undergraduate recruitment for next year, with the University of Gloucestershire warning staff that it is 30 per cent below its target for 2012-13.
A senior government official in Thailand has finally had his doctorate rescinded more than two years after a university investigation concluded that 80 per cent of his thesis on organic asparagus production had been plagiarised.
When the 2014 research excellence framework was being devised to take into account real-world impact, relocating a long-established university nursery to make way for such research was probably not what its designers had in mind.
Cardiff University is investigating reports that a prospective Chinese student was told by a recruitment agent that she could win a place at the institution despite not meeting its entry requirements.
More than one in six international students coming to study at universities in the UK have question marks over their 鈥済enuineness鈥, according to the results of 糖心Vlog Office interviews given to a cross-party group of MPs today.
The Council for Industry and 糖心Vlog has announced plans to launch a National Centre for Universities and Business to strengthen links between the two sectors with the aim of driving economic growth.
Stonewall, the equality charity, has published its latest guide to the universities it considers to have the most gay-friendly policies and support for students.
A 拢120 million deal has been struck with the help of a former higher education minister to build a 2,000-bed student accommodation complex that will serve Newcastle University and the University of Northumbria.
The universities and science minister has appealed to private investors to support overseas expansion for UK universities and stated that investment bank Goldman Sachs is 鈥渒een to investigate this possibility鈥.
