A University of Oxford college has created a full-time academic post dedicated to encouraging bright state-school students to apply to competitive universities.
The number of mainstream students set to start higher education courses in England this year is down 62,000, or 17 per cent, on last year's figures, analysis by Times Higher Education suggests.
Three of the 15 institutions initially chosen as potential destinations for London Metropolitan University's overseas students are commercial operators, it has emerged, after a ?2 million fund was announced by the government to help students transfer.
The government has announced that it wants to publish more detailed figures on overseas students that "disaggregate" them from totals on net migration.
The Apollo 15 mission of July and August 1971 was the first to allow a manned spacecraft to spend an extended period of time - close to three days - on the surface of the Moon.
European universities need to improve their efforts to help doctoral students and academics spend time abroad, a report by the European University Association has found.
Universities are under increasing pressure to offer incoming students access to state-of-the-art technology because of the increased fees they are being asked to pay, according to a report published this week.
A major new resource devoted to the writings of "Shakespeare and his immediate contemporaries, antecedents and successors" has been launched by Oxford University Press.
Higher education investment in the UK as a share of national wealth has increased, but remains lower than that of other developed nations, an annual study has found.
The new director of the Office for Fair Access, Les Ebdon, has been accused by an MP of "salivating" at the prospect of handing fines of up to ?500,000 to universities that miss targets for widening their student base.
International students at London Metropolitan University could be given a year to continue their course if the institution is given a chance to challenge its recent student visa ban.
Income from higher tuition fees will flow into universities' expanding marketing departments and budget surpluses rather than efforts to improve the student experience, a round-table discussion on the future of the sector has heard.
A committee of MPs has called on the government to exclude overseas students from figures on net migration, warning that current policy risks "undermining a world class export market".
Visa compliance problems similar to those discovered at London Metropolitan University can be found at many other UK universities, a former 91茄子 Office director has said.
Introducing tuition fees of up to ?9,000 will not change the hierarchy of British universities because applicants generally pick an institution based on its prestige and history, a new study suggests.
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London Metropolitan University is to take legal action to challenge the revocation of its licence to admit international students, saying it has a duty to the higher education sector to challenge the UK Border Agency's decision.
A translation error by Chinese news agencies has dragged another higher education institution into the London Metropolitan University visa controversy.
