James Stirling has been named as the first provost of Imperial College London - a position created in April when leadership of the institution was split in two.
University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking has been awarded a $3 million (?1.9 million) prize from the Milner Foundation for his contribution to fundamental physics.
The Home Secretary has pledged to introduce interviews for 100,000 more international students to root out visa abuse, and warned universities that they will lose their licences to recruit foreign students if they fail to meet standards.
Government plans to grant a VAT exemption to for-profit higher education providers will "rig the higher education market" in their favour and use public subsidies "to create corporate and individual shareholder profit", according to the University and College Union and National Union of Students.
More than a quarter of England and Wales' adult population has a higher education qualification, although a North-South divide prevails, the 2011 census has revealed.
The amount of money universities were given in donations of at least ?1 million leapt by more than a third in 2010-11, according to a report by the bank Coutts.
A lack of undergraduate courses that cover online information security is jeopardising the effectiveness of the UK's Cyber Security Strategy, according to a leading expert.
Prospective students from independent schools are much more likely to submit good personal statements to back up their applications to university, a study has found.
Spring is dawning in the Gulf and the UK academy’s links with the region’s repressive, anachronistic autocracies look increasingly questionable, says Christopher Davidson
Taxpayer-backed funding for students at private colleges rose by 138 per cent to ?100 million last year, with a private equity-owned institution that did not meet all quality standards accounting for more than a fifth of that total.
A Tory MP has warned that there is opposition on his party’s front bench to Les Ebdon, following criticism of his comments on the “snobbery” surrounding university education.
Academics at the University of Sussex say they were left stunned at a meeting of the institution’s senate when management refused to discuss motions put forward by union members of 17 departments over the closure of a childcare scheme.
The chancellor has used his Autumn Statement to announce ?600 million in extra investment for science infrastructure to support "technologies of the future".
The UK needs to double the annual number of graduates in engineering by 2020 if it is to meet the expected demand for such skills, the government was told today.
Research Councils UK has insisted it will not punish universities that publish a lower proportion of gold open access papers than it envisaged in its allocation of block grants for article fees – provided the block grants are not misused.
A PhD student and a pharmacology professor have been named the joint winners of a national competition to honour the best science bloggers in the country
