International students at London Metropolitan University will be refunded any higher tuition fee charges as well as the extra cost of travel and accommodation if they move elsewhere to study, it has been announced.
The coalition government was close to abolishing fees in 2010 and introducing a "graduate contribution system", the deputy leader of the Liberal Democrats has claimed.
The Liberal Democrats have adopted a motion to build cross-party consensus around large increases to the science and research budget, and to press for a public loans system for postgraduates.
Vince Cable, the business secretary, has admitted the government made mistakes in the way it presented tuition fees and in part blamed Lord Browne's 2010 review of university funding for the problem.
Students should be offered the chance to learn entrepreneurial skills at university before they enter the job market, according a report by the higher education standards watchdog.
A High Court ruling means London Metropolitan University's overseas students will be allowed to continue with their studies, while the university has been granted permission to apply for judicial review against the UK Border Agency's decision to revoke its visa licence.
A demonstration that brain researchers can detect meaningful neural activity in dead fish is among the research projects honoured in yesterday's Ig Nobel Prize ceremony.
The National Union of Students is taking legal action on behalf of students at London Metropolitan University threatened with deportation after the university lost its licence for sponsor student visas.
Student representatives and opposition MPs have rounded on Nick Clegg after the Liberal Democrat leader used a party political broadcast to apologise for breaking a pre-election pledge to oppose tuition fee rises.
The government has moved towards granting for-profit higher education firms VAT advantages to put them on "the same footing" as universities - although some firms have already gained that advantage by switching to non-profit status.
Cardiff University has confirmed that it is to launch a formal investigation into alleged research misconduct in the laboratory of its dean of medicine.
A University of Oxford college has created a full-time academic post dedicated to encouraging bright state-school students to apply to competitive universities.
The number of mainstream students set to start higher education courses in England this year is down 62,000, or 17 per cent, on last year's figures, analysis by Times Higher Education suggests.
Three of the 15 institutions initially chosen as potential destinations for London Metropolitan University's overseas students are commercial operators, it has emerged, after a ?2 million fund was announced by the government to help students transfer.
The government has announced that it wants to publish more detailed figures on overseas students that "disaggregate" them from totals on net migration.
European universities need to improve their efforts to help doctoral students and academics spend time abroad, a report by the European University Association has found.
Universities are under increasing pressure to offer incoming students access to state-of-the-art technology because of the increased fees they are being asked to pay, according to a report published this week.
