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.
The number of students at UK universities has gone up by almost a third in the last 10 years with those coming from outside the European Union more than doubling, according to a new report.
Former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville has been elected chancellor of the University of Cambridge after receiving more than half the votes in a ballot of members of the institution’s senate.
British lecturers fighting discriminatory employment practices at Italian universities have been cheered by a meeting on the issue between the countries’ two ministers for universities.
The US attorney general has been asked by a senior higher education representative to intervene to tackle the “chilling effects” of anti-immigration laws at a state level.
The Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has appointed former employment lawyer Chuka Umunna as the new shadow business secretary following a cabinet reshuffle today.
A college that offers courses validated by the University of Wales has been linked to an alleged scam that helped foreign students to cheat their way to qualifications.
All business people should be able to “knock on the doors” of a university and ask for training and help with research, David Willetts has told the Conservative Party conference.
The government has announced nearly £200 million in new science capital spending which it hopes will cement the UK’s status as “home to the greatest scientists and engineers”.
Up to 6,000 undergraduate places that are being auctioned off to low-cost institutions will go to further education colleges rather than universities, the Labour Party has claimed.
The University of Wales, Newport, has responded to proposals for a radical contraction in the number of Welsh universities with plans for a new institution in the South East of the country.
Many students face a shortfall of over £8,000 a year when state support is compared to the cost of living for the 2011-12 academic year, a new analysis suggests.
Forty university chaplains have signed a letter criticising the coalition government’s White Paper for seeing higher education in “highly individual” terms.
The Labour Party would reduce the annual tuition fee cap to £6,000 if it were in power, Ed Miliband has said, in an apparent move away from favouring a graduate tax.
Six leading scientific bodies, including the Royal Society, have urged the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to reconsider its controversial “shaping capability” measures.
Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has described the coalition government’s decision to increase university tuition fees – which went against pledges he made before the election – as “heart-wrenching” in his speech to the Liberal Democrat conference.
A decision to charge a group of Italian seismologists and officials with manslaughter for failing to predict an earthquake that killed over 300 people “defies belief”, according to a UK expert in the field.
Plans for students to apply to university after receiving their A-level results have been challenged as the consultation on the higher education White Paper draws to a close.
A “narrow, Oxbridge-obsessed” approach to higher education reform will thwart attempts to increase social mobility, according to a new report by a group of new universities.
Delegates at the Liberal Democrat party conference have supported a motion asking the government to look again at its proposals for the tuition fee loans given to part-time students.
Universities have been warned not to assume that “digital native” students will embrace all e-learning initiatives, or indeed prefer them to traditional forms of education.
A student who was arrested after downloading an al-Quaeda training manual from a US government website during research for his master’s degree has been paid £20,000 by Nottinghamshire Police in an out of court settlement.
University and College Union members have voted to hold “sustained industrial action” over cuts to their pensions, potentially disrupting exams and assessment at 67 universities.
A Danish businessman has told a conference of European educators that university managers who resist the profit motive are sticking with a strategy that is “as dead as disco”.
The government’s rhetoric on the protection of science funding has not been matched by the “alarming” fiscal reality, according to the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
Investment in higher education in the UK as a share of national wealth dropped further behind the average among industrialised countries even before the current funding reforms, according to an annual report.
Northern Ireland has become the latest of the devolved nations to announce that its universities will charge “rest-of-UK” students up to £9,000 a year – a move that will subsidise lower fees for the province’s own students.
Young people are more concerned about tuition fees and debt when thinking about university than they are about employment prospects, a new survey suggests.
Academics should step aside to allow school teachers to become the country’s new “intellectual guardians”, the head of Britain’s teacher training body has said.
Changes to the university funding regime will bring an “abrupt halt” to improvements in the number of young people in care who go on to university, an education expert has warned.
Universities will reap commercial and academic benefits by tapping into the skills of older people on lifelong learning courses, an academic has argued.
A major survey of online marketing to prospective international students has found that a “one size fits all” approach is unlikely to succeed, and that, for universities, a web presence is not a substitute for face to face interaction.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Northampton has been accused of “dismissing” the work of administrative and support staff after redundancy plans were announced.
Most pupils planning to attend university from 2012 onwards are reconsidering their options due to the increase in tuition fees, according to a new poll.
