To judge by the gleefully bull-headed ignorance shown by politicians, bloggers and others, scientific evidence and scholarly analysis may soon count for nothing. Jon Marcus considers where this anti-intellectual climate leaves the academy
The merging of two prestigious fellowship schemes could set a new global standard in support of early-career independent researchers, it has been suggested.
The sector's main pension fund is likely to be judged as having a ?2.9 billion deficit, potentially requiring an injection of funds from universities and damaging the case for the University and College Union's industrial action against changes to the scheme.
Ahead of Lord Woolf’s report on the scandal of the LSE’s links with Libya, Christopher Davidson examines the issue of UK university funding by Gulf autocracies in the light of the Arab Spring
The new head of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has "an understanding of academic research, which his predecessor sadly lacked", a senior academic has said.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Cambridge has offered a robust defence of research as “inherent to the very fibre of a university” and bemoaned the “deafening” silence from government over persistent concerns about postgraduate funding.
Part-time students are to be given an extra year of grace before they become eligible to start repaying tuition fee loans after the government agreed to changes that had been put forward by the sector and Liberal Democrat peers.
A cross-party committee of peers in the House of Lords is to investigate how the European Union can help higher education across the continent to boost jobs, growth and innovation.
The 40 per cent reduction in public spending on universities over the next four years will help contribute to the biggest fall in education spending over such a period since the 1950s, a respected policy institute has estimated.
The first set of figures on university applications for 2012 entry, when the fee cap rises to ?9,000, shows a 9 per cent fall compared to the same time last year.
One in five higher education institutions in England is seeking to lower its fee levels to less than ?7,500 to bid for additional student places, the Office for Fair Access has said.
The research councils might never recoup the money they have spent on the troubled Shared Services Centre, the National Audit Office has warned in a critical report.
Higher education's unions are divided on the ?150 national pay offer, as employers predict tougher wage battles ahead when higher tuition fees create a belief that the sector is "awash with cash".
The business world's "counter-intuitive" failure to capitalise on the UK's ever-increasing research excellence needs to be addressed by the government, the author of a report into UK research has said.
The bronze lamp in the form of an improbable bird takes its origins from the drawings of grotesque beasts by the Dutch designer and silversmith Arent van Bolten, dating from around 1620.
Too much emphasis on graduate employability in Key Information Sets could play into the hands of private for-profit providers at the expense of universities, a vice-chancellor has warned.
The head of University College London's Australian campus has been assured by the nation's immigration minister that it will benefit from relaxed student-visa rules, after concerns that it would be excluded.
The Greek research system should be overhauled to help boost economic growth, a government-commissioned review has found, as the state-reliant sector faces a squeeze in the nation's debt meltdown.
A former president of the British Academy has argued that universities are subject to “elaborate forms of accountability that reveal little about how effectively students are taught or how much they learn on different courses”.
The UK research base is the most productive in the world but its position could be threatened by relatively low investment, a government-commissioned report warns.
The status and influence of chief scientific advisors varies wildly across government, with many advisors lacking sufficient independence, oversight, or ministerial access to properly fulfil their briefs.
Funding chiefs have made a series of changes to the plans for student number controls in 2012-13 in an attempt to alleviate concerns about their impact on social mobility, “vulnerable” subjects and specialist colleges.
