The principal of Royal Holloway, University of London, has been accused of attempting to stifle public debate about the future of the college’s Classics department.
Scottish universities will be allowed to set tuition fees at £9,000 a year for students from the rest of the UK, bringing them into line with their English counterparts.
Academics and support staff at London Metropolitan University are to strike next week over job cuts and redundancy terms – but the vice-chancellor has criticised the action for coinciding with a Left-organised protest.
Powerful public universities are manipulating the “desperation of people whose university systems [have been] completely demolished” to make a “fortune” from overseas branch campuses, a senior university leader has claimed.
A university’s process for closing courses was “not fit for purpose” and the restructure of one of its colleges had a “detrimental impact” on students as a result, an investigation has found.
An independent taskforce headed by the founder of a popular personal finance website has been set up to tackle the “myths and misunderstandings” of the new system of student fees and loans due to come into force in September 2012.
Welsh universities have had their initial plans for higher tuition fees in 2012-13 rejected by the country’s funding council in a move that will be closely watched in England.
The University of Cambridge has set up its own small grants scheme for research in the arts, humanities and social sciences following the decision by two bodies to end similar programmes at the national level.
The number of student complaints referred to the Office of the Independent Adjudicator shot up by a third last year, according to figures released today.
The UK should look at the way other countries are “professionalising” teaching in higher education, mindful of the fact that "not everyone takes [existing] courses seriously".
Political ideology, scientific arrogance and the media’s search for a good story are hindering attempts to explain scientific findings, an academic claims. Matthew Reisz reports
Universities could be allowed to recruit unlimited numbers of UK undergraduates who are able pay their tuition fees upfront under plans being considered by the coalition government.
In an election outcome that surprised both political scientists and the public, Canada’s pro-business Conservative Party has formed a majority government for the first time since 1988.
As Canada prepares for its fourth general election in seven years, its university sector is doing its utmost to ensure that higher education is a key priority for the main parties.
Two academics said to have been planning an anti-monarchy mock execution at Westminster Abbey were arrested ahead of the wedding of Prince William to Kate Middleton in London.
A former higher education minister who is now leading a post-1992 university’s student experience strategy has defended the institution’s decision to charge tuition fees of £9,000 for the 2012-13 academic year.
The vast majority of English universities - if not all - are planning to charge tuition fees above the lower threshold of £6,000, information released by the Office for Fair Access reveals.
Liam Burns has been elected as the next president of the National Union of Students, pledging to “reject the idea of students as consumers” and “dismantle the fees regime”.
Just six months after Lord Browne’s landmark review of higher education, and amid growing concern about the cost of the new tuition fee system, the coalition government has radically changed its proposals for university funding.
London Metropolitan University is to charge under £6,000 a year for many courses in 2012, bucking the trend set by other institutions that have rushed to charge £9,000 a year.
Durham University has become the latest member of the 1994 Group to announce that it plans to charge the maximum undergraduate tuition fee allowed in 2012.
Sir Howard Davies has resigned as director of the London School of Economics, and the school’s governing council has launched an independent inquiry into its relationship with Libya and with Saif Gaddafi.
To keep prices down, loans will be extended to private-sector students and caps on places will be loosened, but minister wants more time to prepare White Paper
