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These images of monkeys, from around 1840, are magic lantern slides.

Around 450,000 students a year could study abroad on the Erasmus scheme after a funding increase by the European Union.

Vice-chancellors rehearse their objections to 'risky' White Paper proposals, writes Simon Baker

EU-funded project will develop affinities between institutions on two continents. Paul Jump reports

Fresh worries have been raised that visa reforms could be damaging the ability of UK universities to recruit students from overseas after more evidence emerged of a large drop in demand from India.

Ucea chief tells John Morgan that national salary bargaining will be tested in the new fees order

Department's first scientific chief sets out his stall firmly in the middle of the road. Paul Jump reports

Wales fears losses as Scotland opens coffers in bid to keep its AAB students. David Matthews reports

Student officers are to receive training on how to comment on their university's quality assurance practices, enabling them to "challenge and shape the quality of teaching" under trebled fees.

A Danish businessman has told a conference of European educators that university managers who resist the profit motive are sticking with a strategy that is “as dead as disco”.

The Scottish government has said that some universities north of the border should merge to avoid “overlaps in provision”.

The government’s rhetoric on the protection of science funding has not been matched by the “alarming” fiscal reality, according to the Campaign for Science and Engineering.

The government has dismissed concerns over the decision to base the UK Centre for Medical Research and Innovation in central London.

Investment in higher education in the UK as a share of national wealth dropped further behind the average among industrialised countries even before the current funding reforms, according to an annual report.

Northern Ireland has become the latest of the devolved nations to announce that its universities will charge “rest-of-UK” students up to £9,000 a year – a move that will subsidise lower fees for the province’s own students.

A university at the centre of a medical research scandal is being sued by two cancer patients and the families of six deceased patients.

By Elizabeth Murphy, for

Young people are more concerned about tuition fees and debt when thinking about university than they are about employment prospects, a new survey suggests.

Student and academic entrepreneurs need more support in universities because the UK is lagging behind other nations, a conference heard.

The University of St Andrews has joined the University of Edinburgh in offering the most expensive undergraduate courses in the UK for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students.

Tuition fees for Northern Irish students wanting to study in the Province will be maintained at close to current levels and institutional budgets will be protected by a £40 million investment, the Northern Ireland Executive has announced.

Around a dozen universities in England are considering lowering their tuition fees for 2012-13 in light of the government’s proposals to hive off some places to institutions charging less than £7,500, it has emerged.

The EPSRC's steady rise in grant approval rates continues, but at what cost? Paul Jump reports

Exeter looks to add value for £9K 'customers', but council members are sceptical. John Morgan writes

...but some question the focus and quality in plans to add more than 800,000 places, writes Paul Jump

Employees of students' unions are to see their final-salary pension scheme closed in a move affecting about 1,000 staff at 69 universities across the UK.

Universities told to vaunt uniqueness instead of relying on identikit cliches. David Matthews writes

Bath Spa's new vice-chancellor plans to expand through internationalisation. Simon Baker reports

London Met plans to slash its estate to save money and raise cash from what's left. John Morgan writes

University quality is facing a double-edged threat, former standards chief warns. Jack Grove reports

Rural institutions may lose out if urban peers opt for market solutions. David Matthews reports

This glass and steel cross, which now stands at the heart of the University of Chester's main campus on Parkgate Road, was originally created as an anguished response to the political climate of the 1980s.

Interdisciplinary alliances, job-seekers and patriots fuel growth in US scholarship, reports Jon Marcus

A private US university that offers dual-accredited degrees in London has been placed on probation by a degree-awarding body.

Growth in overseas postgrads far outstrips that of home students, says Hefce. Simon Baker reports

The new president of Universities UK will call on ministers to slow down their higher education reforms if the changes produce too many problems.

A pledge to give students more help choosing a university is hitting a block, writes Simon Baker

Call for structural changes to help the EC meet its ambitious recruitment goals. Jack Grove reports

The final methodology for the 2011-12 World University Rankings has been unveiled by ����Vlog, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday, 6 October 2011.

Universities' reputations could suffer if undergraduates perceive that the institutions are leaving teaching to "an insufficiently trained, inappropriately paid and poorly motivated workforce of teaching assistants", according to a new study.

Research that suggests university enrolment could fall by at least 5 per cent due to higher tuition fees has been seized upon by the National Union of Students as a “stark warning” that the government should re-examine its funding reforms.

Physics and engineering academics are having to teach students who are unprepared for their courses because of “a gap in knowledge” on maths, the Institute of Physics has warned.

The UK’s only for-profit provider with degree-awarding powers has undercut almost all English universities with its tuition fees for 2012-13 by planning to charge undergraduates between £12,000 and £15,000 for a complete course.

The University of Edinburgh has announced it will charge undergraduates from England, Wales and Northern Ireland up to £36,000 for a degree.

By Kevin Kiley, for

The final methodology for the 2011-12 World University Rankings is today unveiled by ����Vlog, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday 6 October 2011.

Attempts by universities to seek out and respond to student feedback are often inadequate or poorly executed, a new study suggests.

Academics should step aside to allow school teachers to become the country’s new “intellectual guardians”, the head of Britain’s teacher training body has said.

King’s College London has re-opened its chemistry department eight years after concluding that it was unsustainable.

Graduates who left university in 2007 are more likely to be unemployed than those who graduated earlier in the decade, new figures reveal.

Changes to the university funding regime will bring an “abrupt halt” to improvements in the number of young people in care who go on to university, an education expert has warned.