International students coming to the UK could have to pay at least £200 a year to use the National Health Service under plans unveiled by the government.
Dramatic falls in part-time and mature student numbers must be tackled to ensure people from poorer families have the chance to go to university, access head Les Ebdon has warned.
The Cardiff government’s policy of subsidising Welsh student fees when they study elsewhere in the UK has been attacked by the Welsh Conservatives, who say it is siphoning money to English universities.
A Tweet sent by a University of New Mexico psychologist, which suggested that obese people do not have the willpower to complete a PhD, was not, as its author had claimed, “part of a research project”, the institution has concluded.
A paucity of suitable sites, a “stand-offish” attitude and a lack of coordinated, long-term planning are all to blame for the scarcity of large international scientific facilities on UK soil, the Lords Science and Technology committee has been told.
The government has announced a fund worth up to £125 million to support disadvantaged students into further study, as a new report reveals postgraduate numbers fell last year.
A deal to bring together early-career researchers from the UK and Kazakhstan to explore potential joint projects has been struck as part of the prime minister’s visit to the central Asian state.
Some students at the University of Liverpool have been sent the wrong degree results, after the Russell Group institution experienced a “technical problem”
Glasgow Caledonian University has said it is happy that the PhD thesis of Iran’s new president elect is properly referenced and is not undertaking a formal academic investigation
The number of graduate vacancies at leading employers is now at its highest level since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, boosted by openings in the public sector, a survey has found.
The US Senate has approved an immigration reform bill that could grant students and graduates who were brought into the country illegally as children the right to citizenship.
A chemistry professor whose lessons have been viewed on YouTube by thousands of students across the world is one of this year’s winners of the Higher Education Academy’s National Teaching Fellowships.
The desk and spectacles pictured belonged to Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), the German polymath whose travels in Latin America led to the first serious scientific account of the continent
