Academics are being asked by their union to work minimum hours in the first stage of fresh industrial action over pensions - potentially followed by strikes and a boycott of the research excellence framework.
The University of Wales' international business will continue to expand despite its decision to stop validating degrees unless they are "designed and fully controlled" by the institution.
Short-term contracts and a lack of permanent openings risk causing long-term damage to UK academic science, a report prepared for David Willetts warns.
Universities' efforts to collect impact case studies for the 2014 research excellence framework may be in full flow, but uncertainty and confusion still abound.
The University and College Union has urged the UK funding councils to allow female academics to submit one fewer output to the research excellence framework for each pregnancy they have had during the census period.
The sector's international unit has criticised the government for failing to include internationalisation in the recent higher education White Paper, while underlining the need for "positive messaging" to overseas governments.
This mummified crocodile from the Greco-Roman period is held by the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley and was recently the subject of large-scale conservation treatment and technical study.
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 government has come in for fierce criticism from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in strongly-worded submissions to the White Paper consultation.
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.
Australia is to relax its visa rules for overseas students, increasing the competition faced by UK universities just as the coalition government tightens British regulations.
Lancaster University and the University of Liverpool could unite to form a "federal structure" akin to the University of California as other research-intensive universities explore collaborations to secure a place in the global elite.
The Scottish Funding Council has stressed that "no decisions have been taken" after it emerged that it had asked the University of Dundee and the University of Abertay Dundee to consider merging.
Women in their forties and early fifties are the least satisfied among principal investigators with the way they are treated by their universities, a survey has found.
This collection of 29 horses' teeth was assembled by Louis Auzoux (1797-1880), a French doctor who made models of humans, animals and plants for use in teaching medicine and anatomy.
Forty university chaplains have signed a letter criticising the coalition government’s White Paper for seeing higher education in “highly individual” terms.
