The business secretary has attempted to send a message overseas that UK higher education is planning for “long-term growth” in international markets despite recent changes to student visa rules.Vince...
The government will fund more inducement prizes to solve interdisciplinary challenges as part of its new innovation and research strategy.
United StatesOccupy that! See you in courtAround two dozen protesters are suing university leaders over their mistreatment at the hands of the police during the recent Occupy demonstrations. The...
High levels of nepotism suggested by US analysis linked to 'brain drain'. Frank Nowikowski writes
Matthew Reisz on the awards that highlight the developing world's leading young female scientists
Institutions' efforts to cut energy use pay off, but not in the way they hoped. David Matthews writes
Institutions warned to be more transparent about postgraduate course quality, writes Simon Baker
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsBasic sciences? Award winner: Mark Blamire? Institution: University of Cambridge? Value: ?100,302Oxide superconductor/ferromagnet Josephson junctions? Award...
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 ?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...
The University and College Union will make a "staggering loss" of up to ?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.
Current university salary system may struggle to survive impetus to local deals. John Morgan writes
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.