Key points Grants of £1,000 a year reintroduced from 2004 for students from households with incomes of £10,000 or less Partial grant will be available to those whose families earn up to £20,000 a...
Potential university entrants from state schools should be asked for lower A-level grades than their independent-school counterparts, a funding council study suggests. The work, by analysts at the...
Sir Tim Rice, the lyricist whose collaborations with Lord Lloyd-Webber produced Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat and Jesus Christ Superstar , has been named Cameron Mackintosh visiting...
Higher education institutions are caught in the middle of a confused debate over graduate employability, with their reactions ranging from "we do it already" to "it's not our job", according to a...
South Africa's student aid programme is struggling to keep up with the demand for higher education from hard-up school-leavers whose final grades have improved for the third consecutive year. But...
Germany is to try to attract more top postgraduate students from around the world in an effort to compete with universities in France, the US and the UK. Berlin's drive coincides with a renewed...
Italy's hard-pressed universities may be unable to meet a plea from the daughter of wireless pioneer Guglielmo Marconi to purchase a collection of her father's archives and apparatus. The...
A leading Danish academic has resigned from the board of the country's Institute for Environmental Assessment after it rejected his call for the suspension of director Bjørn Lomborg. Poul Harremoës,...
Students on Australian campuses are copying material from the internet and textbooks, submitting work by previous students, collaborating on assignments and hiring someone more knowledgeable in a...
Undergraduates 4,220 Postgraduates 930 Students from low social classes % Hefce teaching income £5.5m Hefce research income £173,000 Income from Hefce 47% King Alfred’s College in Winchester has a...
Quality watchdogs have "no confidence" in the academic standard of a pioneering Sheffield University degree offered through its partner, Barnsley College. In a review of Barnsley's combined studies (...
Setting students assignments as soon as they arrive at university could help cut dropout rates, according to researchers at Ulster University. Tony Cook of UU's faculty of life and health sciences is...
Continued growth in the number of overseas students recruited by UK universities is forcing institutions to rethink campus culture and their student financial support arrangements. New figures from...
Fifty-two universities have been licensed to offer the new social work degree. The degree will replace the two-year diploma as the qualification for social workers. It is part of a government drive...
Russian education minister Vladimir Filippov is planning to crack down on corruption in universities as he pushes ahead with higher education reforms. Mr Filippov, former rector of the People's...