Universities will have a “sound” financial footing in 2014-15 but face risks to their income due to declining demand from home and international students, according to England's funding council.
The move to make nursing an all-graduate profession has not had a detrimental effect on the quality of care, an independent commission on the future of nurse education has found.
Researchers at University College London got a chance to raise money for a wide range of charitable projects this week - by pitching their ideas in a pub and getting the audience to vote for them.
The UK government has signed an agreement with the Indonesian minister of education establishing eight new partnerships between universities in the two countries.
The next president of Universities UK will be University of Surrey vice-chancellor Sir Christopher Snowden after he was unopposed in the nominations process, it has been announced.
The Natural Environment Research Council has abandoned its controversial plans to merge the British Antarctic Survey with the National Oceanography Centre.
This impressive Orthodox cross, made from intricately carved cypress wood, was used for the benediction of the congregation during the Liturgy and was probably made in the monastic community of Mount Athos.
A for-profit college deliberately registered students on courses they did not wish to study, helping it to access around £750,000 of tuition fee payments backed by the taxpayer, according to the government.
David Willetts put science and future technology at the heart of his vision of markets created by "strong and effective government" - in a speech that was never delivered.
Universities should emulate the aircraft manufacturer Airbus in forming alliances in which partner institutions provide a single specialised element of a student's education rather than trying to offer a complete academic experience in one place.
The Natural Environment Research Council should suspend its controversial plans to merge the British Antarctic Survey with the National Oceanography Centre, MPs have claimed.
Is your workplace built on an ancient burial ground, or is there a part of the stationery cupboard that has always been a degree or two colder than the rest of the building, sending chills up your spine?
Vince Cable, the business secretary, has admitted that the government will spend less on higher education as a result of this year's shortfall in student numbers, caused partly by the government's own AAB "experiment".
The University of Bath has left the 1994 Group of small research-intensive universities with its vice-chancellor saying continued membership of the organisation "does not reflect the type of university we are".
The vice-chancellor of Cranfield University, Sir John O'Reilly, will become director general of knowledge and innovation at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from early February next year, it has been announced.
A panel of academics chaired by former University Challenge quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne faced a barrage of questions from the public ranging from "Why does it matter how it all began?" and "Does the rise of women mean the end of men?" to whether they preferred Homeland or Downton Abbey.
Undergraduate numbers have dropped at around a third of the institutions in the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, its director general has said.
Better marketing, a stronger presence within core curricula and even "Bumps and Babies" groups were among the "future strategies for university and college libraries" explored last week at a conference in London.
