A new open-access journal that will allow researchers to publish a paper every year for a one-off fee of just $99 (拢64) has prompted hopes that a more competitive market in open-access fees may soon emerge.
An ambitious free festival exploring everything from the iconic London Underground map to brain scans of cab drivers and novelist Will Self will take place at University College London later this week.
Labour鈥檚 shadow business secretary has warned that moving responsibility for universities from the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills to the Department for Education would cause 鈥渄isruption and uncertainty鈥 for the sector.
Ministers are to move forward with plans to lower the qualifying threshold for university title from 4,000 to 1,000 students, the government has confirmed.
Accreditation of US universities should depend less on 鈥渋nput鈥 measures, such as the number of lecturers with PhDs, and more on measures of outputs such as student loan default rates.
At least 30 per cent of the membership of a reformed House of Lords should be independently appointed if scientific expertise is not to be lost, a lobby group has claimed.
Of around 20 surviving maces made for universities in the Middle Ages, three are owned by the University of St Andrews. Probably the finest and most valuable is the St Salvator's College Mace shown here.
The group charged with thrashing out how the UK should expand access to publicly funded research has decided against setting any guideline figures for open-access article charges, raising concerns that it will not stop commercial publishers' alleged profiteering.
Universities could be forced to sign up to the proposed Concordat to Support Research Integrity as a condition of public funding under proposals being considered by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England.
This image of Manchester's Chinatown by photography student Hannah Mitchell was one of many taken for a project to provide images for 60 bedrooms at a newly opened health facility.
Universities are struggling to balance recommendations to send PhD students on internships with the fact that their supervisors often fail to see the value of such placements, a conference has heard.
More international students cite safety as a factor in their decision to study in the UK than was the case five years ago, despite worldwide coverage of the violence and looting that swept many English cities last August.
Astronomers have welcomed a partial reprieve granted to the UK鈥檚 northern hemisphere telescopes, but have described the closure of two major facilities in Hawaii as a 鈥渟ad day for British astronomy鈥.
The US Department of State has been accused of making 鈥渋ll-informed and misguided鈥 policy statements against the use of international student recruitment agents and 鈥渄oing significant harm to the higher education industry鈥 in America.
Publishers of humanities and social science journals could go bankrupt if all academic papers became freely available after six months, a report commissioned by publishers has warned.
A senior civil servant in charge of implementing the government鈥檚 higher education policies has been named the new vice-chancellor of the University of London.
These images are taken from the Bowen Collection, now held by the University of Bath, which was assembled as part of the research for a book on the origins and history of judo in the UK.
