Cardiff University’s dean of medicine has been cleared of research misconduct but the institution has found a former member of his lab guilty of image falsification in four papers.
Boys have been deterred from going to university more than girls in the first year of higher tuition charges, a new study by the Independent Commission on Fees says.
Research Councils UK has removed from its guidance on its open-access policy an exhortation for institutions and authors to make sure a “proper market in article fees” operates.
Toni Pearce has been elected as the next president of the National Union of Students, promising to fight for “a movement where students’ unions are leading from the front and aren’t just an afterthought”.
Students today face a “triple-dip recession” consisting of a lack of jobs, opportunities to study and future prospects, according to the president of their national union.
Margaret Thatcher’s “revolutionary” reforms helped to transform an ailing university system into a world-leading higher education system, a vice-chancellor has said.
National Union of Students’ president Liam Burns has called for “sensitivity” and “respect” after some delegates at the union’s annual conference were heard to cheer news that former prime minister Baroness Thatcher had died.
Salaries for full-time faculty members at US colleges and universities are slowly recovering after years of below-inflation rises, although higher education institutions are increasingly reliant on part-time staff, a report has revealed.
In a further sign of the growing scientific prominence of data sets, Nature Publishing Group has launched a new open-access platform that will peer review and publish detailed descriptions of their contents.
The British Library – and the nation’s other legal deposit libraries – have officially taken on responsibility to archive UK web content, opening up immense opportunities for researchers.
Australian academics should not be contractually bound always to split their time equally between teaching and research, the vice-chancellor of the University of Adelaide has said.
US president Barack Obama’s announcement that $100 million (£66 million) is to be invested in an initiative to map the human brain has been welcomed by the country’s higher education institutions.
Graduates with science degrees are less likely to be out of work during a recession than those who studied humanities, according to new research on more than 6,000 young Americans.
Many students will “defend to the death” the need for traditional campus-based lectures, and will only delve into the world of free online educational resources if instructed to by their teachers, a conference has heard.
Recent comments about initial teacher training made by education secretary Michael Gove and Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, constitute a “concerted political attack” on universities that has “no basis” in evidence.
The University of Sussex is still waiting to see if it will be able to evict protesters from an occupation on the campus after a decision at the High Court was adjourned.
The University Alliance mission group has gained another new member from Million+ while also announcing it is signing a partnership with its Australian counterpart.
A Jewish academic who claimed the UCU’s policy on Palestine constituted harassment has been rebuked by an employment tribunal for misusing the legal process
The University of Sussex has been granted an injunction that it says will pave the way towards ending the seven-week occupation of its Bramber House conference centre.
Students from ethnic minorities are less likely to gain places at top universities than white pupils with the same A-level grades, a new study has claimed.
The UK Border Agency is to be split in two, between a visa body and a law enforcement body, and brought back under the control of Home Office ministers.
The project manager who oversaw a huge overhaul of London Metropolitan University’s undergraduate teaching has said that universities need to be careful not to raise false hopes when they promise to “consult” on major decisions.
Sir Alan Langlands is to leave his job as chief executive of England’s funding council to become vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds, where he has been welcomed as a “stellar figure” in higher education.
The University of Oxford is set to review its policy on postgraduate admissions after a college reached a settlement with an applicant who claimed it discriminated against poorer students.
Regent’s College will become the latest private provider to gain university status, with the charitable institution hoping to boost its international prospects and join Universities UK as a result.
All threatened strike action at the University of Birmingham has been called off after the University and College Union reached an agreement with the institution’s management over compulsory redundancies and performance management.
Students and academics need to be much more involved in the management and improvement of universities if the future of higher education is to be safeguarded.
Academics have been making their voice heard on Twitter after education secretary Michael Gove mocked 100 university professors who had criticised his plans to reform the national curriculum.
Michael Gove has reiterated his desire to move initial teacher training towards school-led providers by pledging an extra £10 million for schools to train the next generation of teachers.
Outspoken MP George Galloway has tabled an early day motion calling for a University of Oxford college to reinstate a library invigilator who was sacked for failing to stop students film an internet dance video in her library.
George Osborne’s budget has revealed that the government appears to be scrapping plans to grant VAT exemption to for-profit higher education providers, a move that was aimed at exposing universities to greater competition.
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.
