India has long been the "sleeping giant" of Asia. Research in the university sector, stagnant for at least two decades, is now accelerating but it will be a long haul to restore the country as an...
University of Texas at AustinSally Dodson-RobinsonA scholar from the University of Texas at Austin plans to use a Faculty Early Career Development award from the National Science Foundation to answer...
Civic spark - What does a university add to a city? A lot more than you might think
Dutch begin documenting top psychologist’s supermassive fraud
David Willetts was forced to call off a lecture yesterday evening after the event he was due to speak at was disrupted by student protesters.
One of the UK’s biggest private providers has set out bold plans to become a university, more than double in size and takeover or link up with other “complementary institutions” both in Britain and...
The University of East Anglia’s Climatic Research Unit has found itself back in the spotlight with the leak of over 5,000 emails seemingly to and from its academic staff.
A new chief executive has been appointed to the Natural Environment Research Council almost five months after its previous head stepped down.
A “poverty penalty” is restricting access to higher education for poor Londoners, particularly those living in richer boroughs, a new report says.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
The University of Southampton’s first overseas campus has begun enrolling students after the project received academic accreditation from the Malaysian authorities.
Academics at Birkbeck, University of London have called for the government to suspend its higher education reforms.
A new Department of Chemistry is to be established at Lancaster University, more than a decade after its old department was closed.
The universities of Dundee and Abertay Dundee have issued a joint statement with the Scottish Funding Council asserting that they will not merge.
Off-site store causes problems after Soas Library refurb cuts capacity. Matthew Reisz writes