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A group of students have won a major prize by using videogame technology to create a 3D 17^th-century environment from historic British Library maps.

Applications for early-deadline university courses have generally risen compared with last year, though Northern Ireland has seen a 10 per cent drop.

The English higher education sector¡¯s budget surpluses are set to fall significantly in the financial years 2012-13 and 2013-14 before recovering.

Caltech, ranked top in the for the past three years , has announced a new president

Staff contributions will need to increase by a third to clear a multi-billion pound deficit in the sector¡¯s main pension fund, a new analysis says.

The University of Manchester has become the third UK university to join the US massive open online course platform Coursera.

The 1994 Group has urged the government to introduce a postgraduate loan system to combat a 12 per cent drop in student numbers over three years.

Institutions struggle as the pool of potential students shrinks

Delegation to Brazil underscores progress in UK universities¡¯ collaborative efforts

During THE podcast, universities minister points to Robbins¡¯ example

But employers dismiss potential impact of one-day strike

¡®In beta¡¯ UK platform advances cautiously into global Mooc marketplace

Domino theory may explain out of favour Blairite¡¯s appointment

Some in the academy believe it could

Internal papers show 3 per cent decline in firm acceptances for University of Central Lancashire

Massive open online courses: new horizon or redundancy tool? Experts fight it out

KwaZulu-Natal leader unveils controversial ¡®equity index¡¯ measuring universities¡¯ performance on ethnicity and gender equity

More than half (57 per cent) of all European research papers are written by authors with collaborators outside their institution, a?study has found

The Women¡¯s Library, based at the London School of Economics since the beginning of this year, is the UK¡¯s leading resource for the study of women¡¯s history and the women¡¯s movement

Only fees subsidies can arrest alarming decline in numbers, experts warn

Manchester Met launches interdisciplinary Centre for Gothic Studies

Hefce figures show disparities between young people from the capital going to university compared with those from English regions

Model is saving research from ¡®scourge of irreproducibility¡¯, says founder Moshe Pritsker

Cambridge critic points to July report¡¯s ¡®bad faith¡¯ arguments

David Willetts has been challenged over his assertion that university class sizes are the same as they were 50 years ago

Students taking part in a huge nationwide debate have overwhelmingly disagreed with the notion of a full ban on animal testing in research

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The London School of Economics is ¡°attempting to establish the facts¡± over the expulsion of an academic from Peking University, one of its partners.

The Office of Fair Trading is to examine England¡¯s universities, including how they compete for students and set fees under the ?9,000 regime.

UK universities have the equivalent of ?2,083 per student invested in the fossil fuel industry, a new report has claimed.

David Willetts has warned of the need to expand the number of higher education places between the end of this decade and 2035 to cope with a growing young population

If the UK were to leave the European Union, the nation¡¯s universities would be left in even greater ¡°ideological thrall¡± to the US.

The extraordinary forgotten story of a university science club which put the first Arab rockets into space is the focus of a new documentary film.

Student activists have tried to occupy Vince Cable¡¯s constituency office in protest at Liberal Democrat backing for the sale of the student loan book

The University of Birmingham is returning to New Zealand its collection of Toi moko, tattooed heads preserved by Maoris to venerate a loved one or mock a defeated enemy.

State school pupils do better at university than those from private schools with the same grades, according to a new report which recommends the increased use of contextual data in admissions.

Students across the UK are this week taking part in what organisers believe will be the biggest public debate on animal research ever held.

Reasons for withdrawal of legal action on eve of hearing remain unclear

University hails no-strings pilot¡¯s success

How does the university calculate the real cost of undergraduate education?

These images form part of a forthcoming exhibition about the Victorian magazine Punch taking place at Liverpool John Moores University in celebration of the opening of the institution¡¯s new Special Collections and Archives reading room

Report warns of ¡®market failure¡¯ but critics say it doesn¡¯t go far enough

Minutes suggest the pros and cons of strategies for submission

Credit transfer system could give Continent advantage over US

Legal training overhaul would promote diversity and cut costs, regulator says

Faculty-in-residence keen to offer advice and a listening ear

Sunderland and Ulster introduce fingerprinting systems

Vital academic work still missed by impact criteria and civil servants, forum hears

Save ¡®outstanding¡¯ programme, university told

Original vision lost in scramble for profit and repackaging of old ideas, say pair

Witty recommends more collaboration, more funding and more weight for impact in REF