The vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge has offered a robust defence of research as 鈥渋nherent to the very fibre of a university鈥 and bemoaned the 鈥渄eafening鈥 silence from government over persistent concerns about postgraduate funding.
Part-time students are to be given an extra year of grace before they become eligible to start repaying tuition fee loans after the government agreed to changes that had been put forward by the sector and Liberal Democrat peers.
A cross-party committee of peers in the House of Lords is to investigate how the European Union can help higher education across the continent to boost jobs, growth and innovation.
The 40 per cent reduction in public spending on universities over the next four years will help contribute to the biggest fall in education spending over such a period since the 1950s, a respected policy institute has estimated.
The first set of figures on university applications for 2012 entry, when the fee cap rises to 拢9,000, shows a 9 per cent fall compared to the same time last year.
One in five higher education institutions in England is seeking to lower its fee levels to less than 拢7,500 to bid for additional student places, the Office for Fair Access has said.
The research councils might never recoup the money they have spent on the troubled Shared Services Centre, the National Audit Office has warned in a critical report.
The head of University College London's Australian campus has been assured by the nation's immigration minister that it will benefit from relaxed student-visa rules, after concerns that it would be excluded.
The Greek research system should be overhauled to help boost economic growth, a government-commissioned review has found, as the state-reliant sector faces a squeeze in the nation's debt meltdown.
Higher education's unions are divided on the 拢150 national pay offer, as employers predict tougher wage battles ahead when higher tuition fees create a belief that the sector is "awash with cash".
The business world's "counter-intuitive" failure to capitalise on the UK's ever-increasing research excellence needs to be addressed by the government, the author of a report into UK research has said.
Too much emphasis on graduate employability in Key Information Sets could play into the hands of private for-profit providers at the expense of universities, a vice-chancellor has warned.
The bronze lamp in the form of an improbable bird takes its origins from the drawings of grotesque beasts by the Dutch designer and silversmith Arent van Bolten, dating from around 1620.
A former president of the British Academy has argued that universities are subject to 鈥渆laborate forms of accountability that reveal little about how effectively students are taught or how much they learn on different courses鈥.
The UK research base is the most productive in the world but its position could be threatened by relatively low investment, a government-commissioned report warns.
The status and influence of chief scientific advisors varies wildly across government, with many advisors lacking sufficient independence, oversight, or ministerial access to properly fulfil their briefs.
Funding chiefs have made a series of changes to the plans for student number controls in 2012-13 in an attempt to alleviate concerns about their impact on social mobility, 鈥渧ulnerable鈥 subjects and specialist colleges.
The number of students at UK universities has gone up by almost a third in the last 10 years with those coming from outside the European Union more than doubling, according to a new report.
Former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville has been elected chancellor of the University of Cambridge after receiving more than half the votes in a ballot of members of the institution鈥檚 senate.
The switch from measuring widening participation via students' socio-economic classification to free school meal data is not fair, an admissions expert has said.
