The move to make nursing an all-graduate profession has not had a detrimental effect on the quality of care, an independent commission on the future of nurse education has found.
Researchers at University College London got a chance to raise money for a wide range of charitable projects this week - by pitching their ideas in a pub and getting the audience to vote for them.
Seven university, business and charity partnerships have been announced as winners of the second round of the Research Partnership Investment Fund.
The UK government has signed an agreement with the Indonesian minister of education establishing eight new partnerships between universities in the two countries.
The next president of Universities UK will be University of Surrey vice-chancellor Sir Christopher Snowden after he was unopposed in the nominations process, it has been announced.
The Natural Environment Research Council has abandoned its controversial plans to merge the British Antarctic Survey with the National Oceanography Centre.
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A for-profit college deliberately registered students on courses they did not wish to study, helping it to access around £750,000 of tuition fee payments backed by the taxpayer, according to the...
A psychology professor suspended after criticising university managers is to face a disciplinary hearing for alleged "gross misconduct".
Paper calls for boycott if publisher does not pay UK tax 'lost' after Swiss move. Paul Jump reports