Universities that failed to fill undergraduate places this year will not generally be hit with cuts to their student number allocation next year, unless their shortfalls were "extreme", England's funding council has announced.
The University of Reading is to leave the 1994 Group, becoming the eighth institution this year to depart from the group of small research-intensive universities.
A fifth Parliamentary committee has urged the government to remove international students from its net migration target, warning that failure to do so will damage UK universities.
A London university has announced it is to set up a specialist school for gifted young mathematicians as part of the government's plans to improve mathematics education in the state sector.
State school students in England with university-educated parents are five times more likely to reach higher education than those from "disadvantaged backgrounds", and are also more likely to go to an elite institution.
James Stirling has been named as the first provost of Imperial College London - a position created in April when leadership of the institution was split in two.
University of Cambridge physicist Stephen Hawking has been awarded a $3 million (£1.9 million) prize from the Milner Foundation for his contribution to fundamental physics.
The Home Secretary has pledged to introduce interviews for 100,000 more international students to root out visa abuse, and warned universities that they will lose their licences to recruit foreign students if they fail to meet standards.
Government plans to grant a VAT exemption to for-profit higher education providers will "rig the higher education market" in their favour and use public subsidies "to create corporate and individual shareholder profit", according to the University and College Union and National Union of Students.
More than a quarter of England and Wales' adult population has a higher education qualification, although a North-South divide prevails, the 2011 census has revealed.
The amount of money universities were given in donations of at least £1 million leapt by more than a third in 2010-11, according to a report by the bank Coutts.
A lack of undergraduate courses that cover online information security is jeopardising the effectiveness of the UK's Cyber Security Strategy, according to a leading expert.
Prospective students from independent schools are much more likely to submit good personal statements to back up their applications to university, a study has found.
The chancellor has used his Autumn Statement to announce £600 million in extra investment for science infrastructure to support "technologies of the future".
The UK needs to double the annual number of graduates in engineering by 2020 if it is to meet the expected demand for such skills, the government was told today.
Research Councils UK has insisted it will not punish universities that publish a lower proportion of gold open access papers than it envisaged in its allocation of block grants for article fees – provided the block grants are not misused.
A PhD student and a pharmacology professor have been named the joint winners of a national competition to honour the best science bloggers in the country
The number of people applying to universities in the UK as part of the main applications cycle has fallen by 14 per cent compared with last year, new figures show.
The government is looking for one or more academic partners for the National Physical Laboratory, potentially turning the government-owned facility into a postgraduate institute.
David Willetts is to recommend that 10 small specialist colleges be granted university title, in what he describes as "the biggest creation of universities since 1992".
London mayor Boris Johnson has used a trip to India to highlight his concerns that the UK government’s visa rules are deterring students from the country from studying in the capital’s universities.
At a time when the universities of the Ivy League are increasingly looking to Asia and even Latin America as research partners, European institutions need to collaborate far better if they want to remain competitive.
Issues including whether the humanities have a place in 21st-century nations will be among those discussed at the British Council's Going Global conference next year, it has been announced.
Business schools are failing to help mid-sized companies as much as they could and so are holding back the UK's economy and society, a new report has concluded.
Schools should ignore the "dreadful snobbery" that puts pressure on them to send as many pupils as possible to elite universities, according to the head of the Office for Fair Access.
A planned strike today at Queen Mary, University of London, over the method by which academics are assessed was called off yesterday after the institution committed in writing to negotiate over any changes.
A National Union of Students protest against tuition fees and youth unemployment ended in ugly scenes today when a splinter group forced the union's president from the stage during the closing rally.
Students at two US community colleges are to be given access to a tailored online computer science programme delivered by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), thanks to a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.
BP has launched a new scholarship programme for "talented science, technology, engineering and maths undergraduates studying at nine selected universities across the UK".
Agents for international students looking to study abroad have reported fewer difficulties in obtaining student visas for the UK than last year, according to a new survey.
Universities UK has confirmed that Sir Christopher Snowden will still be its next president, after a technical error forced it to rerun the nominations process.
Critics of complementary and alternative medicine have condemned the Privy Council's decision to award a Royal Charter to chiropractors' professional body.
A scholarship scheme designed to encourage students from poor families to apply to university is not working as it was intended, the sector's access chief has claimed.
Two Midlands university business schools have won a bid to create a research centre that the government hopes will boost the performance of small and medium-sized enterprises in the UK.
Plans for universities to control the content of A-levels are likely to prove expensive and “unworkable” in many subjects, higher education institutions have warned.
Universities UK has reopened nominations for its presidency after a technical error in the process that led to the appointment of Sir Christopher Snowden, the University of Surrey vice-chancellor.
The distribution of more than £100 million in research council funding for open access article fees will be directly proportional to how much universities have charged the councils for direct labour costs over the last three years.
