Universities will not be asked to admit more students from deprived backgrounds in their new access agreements, the director of fair access has indicated.
In a further demonstration of the lure of the so-called golden triangle, pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca has announced plans to relocate its UK-based research and development activities from Cheshire to Cambridge.
The UK needs to boost its output of science, technology, engineering and maths graduates by almost 50 per cent to satisfy market demand, a thinktank has calculated.
The academic field of international relations ignores the Global South and is limited by its reliance on the English language, a South African humanities scholar has argued.
The University of the West of England has opted not to close its politics and international relations department after a campaign by students and staff to save it.
Some of the highest-achieving A-level students could be unfairly denied a place at the most selective universities if such institutions insist on candidates holding a grade A for GCSE English language, according to a headteachers’ association.
The English higher education sector last year saw its first real-terms cut in income since records began almost 20 years ago, while institutional finances will take a further hit this year because of the fall in student numbers under higher fees.
Liverpool John Moores University has chosen a high-profile judge as its new chancellor – although the appointment may not win many plaudits in the national press.
Universities UK has been asked by David Willetts to undertake a review of part-time study and make urgent recommendations in response to a report which shows a “dramatic decline” in part-time students.
In the second of a series surveying research evidence about teaching and learning, Graham Gibbs concludes that the best learning is done in small classes involving personal interaction with teachers
UK businesses are being failed by the government’s lack of a “coherent strategy to support the commercialisation of technological innovation in the UK”, MPs have said.
There is no case for further scientific investigation into the “manifestly nonsensical” mechanism by which homeopathy is supposed to work, the government’s outgoing chief scientific advisor has said.
The Prime Minister has rejected calls to withdraw overseas university students from the government’s target to reduce net migration, saying the move “would not make any difference to our student migration policy”.
More than three quarters of recent university graduates were not told about apprenticeships or vocational training routes before leaving secondary education, a survey has revealed.
The tuition fee cap will remain at £9,000 in 2014-15, meaning the government is allowing most universities’ income to be eroded by inflation, while students’ grants for living expenses will be held back with a below-inflation rise.
Established UK universities will go out of business within the next 10 years unless they adapt to survive an era of intense pressure driven by globalisation, technology, rising student expectations, and competition for funding, a report has warned.
A fellowship award for postgraduate students at 10 universities will encourage them to develop thinking that will promote a more “circular economy” – a school of thought that aims to increase the amount of financial and physical waste that is converted into resources.
A competition that hopes to encourage more school children to study history of art at university reaches its finale this weekend following a series of eight regional heats.
More than half of female students identify “prevailing sexism, ‘laddism’ and a culture of harassment” at their universities, according to a survey by the National Union of Students.
Spending by English universities rose faster than their income did in the year before £9,000 tuition fees were introduced, while institutions again increased their reliance on fees paid by overseas students.
Female graduates are still earning less than their male counterparts, even when they have taken courses from the same subject area, new analysis has found.
The Labour Party has warned that the government’s drive to reduce net migration is choking off the flow of “legitimate university students” while ignoring abuse of the visitor visa route used by English language students.
Former education secretary David Blunkett has challenged universities to stand up to coalition ministers if they have concerns over government reforms.
