Large scholarships that put cash in students' pockets while they are studying should be offered by universities in preference to fee waivers, the government's advocate for access to education has recommended.
The vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University has warned that the institution is "at risk" if it fails to recruit about 2,000 students in clearing, following a warning from England's funding chief that there will be no university bailouts.
Distance learning specialist the Open University will undercut every higher education institution in England in 2012 by charging fees of ?5,000 a year for degrees from September 2012, it has been announced.
A committee of MPs has criticised the way in which the government cut the Education Maintenance Allowance, which supported poor 16-19 year olds in education.
The higher education sector in the UK is undergoing “a strategic shift” in the way it thinks about internationalisation, according to a report published today.
The University of East London has parted company with a researcher following revelations that he was found guilty of research misconduct at two previous universities.
Seventeen English universities face having to win back at least 1,000 full-time undergraduate places as a result of the government’s proposals to create competition for top-achieving students in 2012-13.
Universities must re-engage with society about their role in 21st-century Britain as the government's White Paper has failed to visualise the future of higher education, a vice-chancellor has said.
The idea that universities are about to be plunged into crisis by the decision to open up one in four full-time undergraduate places to full competition is "daft", according to the head of the English funding council.
The University of Abertay Dundee has lost a pro vice-chancellor and a fifth member of its court during two weeks of turmoil after it announced the retirement of its suspended principal.
Universities should gather information on the religious backgrounds of their staff and consider "investigation into the intersections between the curriculum, teaching and religion or belief", according to a report that is under fire from secularists.
These images of a child receiving treatment at Great Ormond Street Hospital, and from its Cromwell House convalescent home in North London, form part of the Historic Hospitals Admission Records Project at Kingston University.
Higher education staff have been given a “final offer” of a ?150 pay rise for the next academic year, provoking an angry reaction from the sector’s unions.
Tuition fees at English universities will average ?8,393 in 2012, the Office for Fair Access confirmed today, significantly higher than the government’s estimate.
Universities and colleges in Wales are to charge average annual tuition fees of ?8,800 after the funding council rubber stamped their plans to improve access.
A subject association has called for an independent inquiry into the suspension of a University of Nottingham academic for criticising the university’s role in the arrest of an administrator and a student under the terrorism act.
A group of academics and students has launched a drive for an “alternative” higher education White Paper in response to what they describe as the “sweeping, ill-considered reforms” set out in the government’s document.
Five high-flying schools sent more students to Oxbridge in a three-year period than 2,000 other UK schools and colleges combined, a report by the Sutton Trust has revealed.
The premier of China, Wen Jiabao, has been awarded the King Charles II Medal by Britain's Royal Society for "one of the most ambitious national research investment programmes the world has ever seen".
Proposals for universities to provide much more detailed information about course content, academic staff and student views could lead to a massive surge in complaints that will put pressure on the sector's oversight bodies, it has been suggested.
