Students' social backgrounds may be less of a factor in determining whether they drop out of university than was previously thought, a major study has concluded.
Concerns have been expressed about the failure of the government's innovation and research strategy to address issues such as postgraduate finance and visa regulations.
Universities charging lower tuition fees may be held to more rigorous standards than those levying 拢9,000 a year, a professor of higher education policy has warned.
London Metropolitan University is set for further immediate course closures after an internal report recommended a "transformation" of postgraduate provision and the setting of relatively low tuition fees.
This brass desk set embellished with ammunition shells belonged to Lieutenant General George Francis Milne (1866-1948), Commander-in-Chief of the British Salonika Army during the First World War.
鈥淭antalising hints鈥 have been discovered of the fabled Higgs boson 鈥 but the data are not yet strong enough to make any conclusive statements about its existence.
Another paper authored by University of Manchester professor Sylvia Bulfone-Paus has been retracted 鈥 but this one does not feature the Russian postdoctoral researchers blamed for misconduct that led to a string of retractions earlier this year.
The senate of Queen Mary, University of London, has become the latest academic body to pass a vote of no confidence in universities and science minister David Willetts.
University journalism courses are not responsible for the industry鈥檚 ethical failings, such as the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, journalism lecturers have told the Leveson inquiry
A quarter of all new undergraduate courses fail to attract a single student, a major study has found, with the proportion rising to half for joint-honours programmes.
A pre-1992 university has cut almost 拢1 million in planned cash support for poorer students while offering tuition-fee discounts for high-achieving applicants so that it can bid for extra places on two fronts.
The University and College Union will make a "staggering loss" of up to 拢4 million in a property deal for its headquarters, a union trustee has claimed.
Students whose A-level grades fall just short of AAB next year could be at risk of missing out on a university place altogether, a number of institutions have warned.
The concentration of research funding in a few elite universities has been described as a "policy trap" that fails to reflect the modern trend towards wider academic collaboration.
The "high-risk" investment strategy pursued by the Universities Superannuation Scheme has been a bigger problem for pensions than rising life expectancy, an academic has claimed.
A European Commission-funded project to compare universities is 鈥渦nlikely to further boost the profile of UK institutions and may actually confuse the picture for prospective applicants鈥, the 1994 Group has warned a House of Lords inquiry.
John Hunter (1728-93) has been called the "father of modern surgery", since he was the first to apply a truly scientific methodology to the medical procedure.
Foreign academics working in the US are more productive than their American counterparts 鈥 but are also less satisfied with their work, a study has concluded.
The UK鈥檚 higher education and college IT network, JANET, is to benefit from a 拢31 million boost from the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills.
The students鈥 union at University College London has passed a vote of no confidence in the provost, Malcolm Grant, after he was appointed to take charge of the NHS in England under controversial government changes.
The government鈥檚 higher education reforms have created 鈥渦nnecessary risk鈥 for universities, the shadow business secretary has said in his first major speech on the sector.
