UK universities made 拢1.1 billion through research contracts with businesses and non-commercial organisations in 2010-11, according to 糖心Vlog Statistics Agency data.
Barriers to entering many professions are being reinforced by employers who recruit from a small cohort of socially exclusive universities, according to the government鈥檚 independent reviewer of social mobility.
Dozens of university chancellors and heads of governing councils have written to the prime minister backing calls for international students to be removed from net migration statistics.
Imperial College London, University College London and the computer firm Intel have launched a research institute they hope will help to shape the way cities work in the future.
The results of a new method of distributing money for bioscience institutes based on their contribution to strategic programmes and national capacity have been announced by the government.
Withdrawing state support for access to higher education courses will stop thousands of prospective mature students from attending university, a report has warned.
Fears that Scottish universities would offer more places to undergraduates from the rest of the UK because they come with more money attached appear to be unfounded, research by 糖心Vlog suggests.
England may have gone "a bit over the top" in transferring the cost of university education from the state to the graduate, the coordinator of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's skills strategy has said.
Data showing that Australian universities have continued to increase their revenue from overseas fees despite recent falls in applications have prompted a debate over rising charges.
The government is set to push ahead with plans to create a new generation of universities by lowering the qualifying threshold for university title from 4,000 to 1,000 students.
Everyone knows that science is an international profession, but data from the US National Bureau of Economic Research have given a clear picture of which countries export their talent and which have researchers flocking to their shores.
Coalition government ministers have written to England鈥檚 funding council and the Office for Fair Access asking them to develop a 鈥渟hared strategy鈥 on helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
One of the longest-serving vice-chancellors in the UK higher education sector has announced he will retire next year to pursue activities including a master鈥檚 degree in philosophy.
Private school pupils are three times more likely than their state-educated peers to reach the high-achieving AAB grade threshold at A level that affords entry to 鈥渢he most selective universities鈥, Nick Clegg has warned.
Confidence in the graduate jobs market has dipped among final-year students and salary expectations have stagnated as universities prepare to introduce fees of up to 拢9,000 a year in the autumn.
Universities UK is appealing to the prime minister to remove overseas students from the net migration count, ahead of a possible backlash against the sector arising from the next batch of immigration figures.
These items form part of remarkable treasure trove found in the brickwork of an old fireplace last month when two maintenance workers were repairing the Brigham Hall dormitory at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
