Fears that Scottish universities would offer more places to undergraduates from the rest of the UK because they come with more money attached appear to be unfounded, research by ̽»¨ÊÓƵ suggests.
Coalition government ministers have written to England¡¯s funding council and the Office for Fair Access asking them to develop a ¡°shared strategy¡± on helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
One of the longest-serving vice-chancellors in the UK higher education sector has announced he will retire next year to pursue activities including a master¡¯s degree in philosophy.
Private school pupils are three times more likely than their state-educated peers to reach the high-achieving AAB grade threshold at A level that affords entry to ¡°the most selective universities¡±, Nick Clegg has warned.
Confidence in the graduate jobs market has dipped among final-year students and salary expectations have stagnated as universities prepare to introduce fees of up to ?9,000 a year in the autumn.
An associate editor of a leading Elsevier journal has resigned, claiming the publisher is ¡°denying developing countries access to research findings¡±.
Universities UK is appealing to the prime minister to remove overseas students from the net migration count, ahead of a possible backlash against the sector arising from the next batch of immigration figures.
These items form part of remarkable treasure trove found in the brickwork of an old fireplace last month when two maintenance workers were repairing the Brigham Hall dormitory at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
Students and academics have condemned the University of Salford¡¯s plans to shut down its Italian department, warning of damage to British graduate skills in a globalised economy.
The University of Abertay Dundee has appointed a new vice-chancellor and principal almost a year after the previous head of the institution left amid a row over his retirement.
The head of a new protest group campaigning for reform of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has called for its chief executive, David Delpy, to take action or step down
Including students in net migration statistics creates a ¡°perverse incentive¡± for the government to drive down foreign student numbers even though this does relatively little to cut long-term immigration, a report has argued.
Researchers into complementary and alternative medicine are disregarding ¡°basic rules of publication ethics¡± by routinely failing to report the potentially serious side effects of treatments, an academic has claimed.
Universities will be able to bid for up to ?35 million in matched public funding for major research capital projects as part of a new programme, the government has announced.
A university has decided against a controversial proposal to establish a chair in a brand of alternative medicine that advocates mistletoe as a cure for cancer.
Ministers have introduced a system of "due diligence checks" for private higher education providers, it has emerged, as new figures show that the number of their students accessing state-funded loans has nearly doubled in a year.
The president of a flagship research university in Saudi Arabia will emphasise his institution's role in creating jobs for the country's burgeoning youth population in the Higher Education Policy Institute's annual lecture.
This graph, from a Higher Education Statistics Agency report, shows how institutions in the four nations of the UK rely on very different types of student for their tuition fee income.
