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An international group of more than 60 academics has accused a controversial evolutionary psychologist of refusing to engage in scientific dialogue, highlighting long-standing criticism of his work in an attempt to protect their discipline from further attack.

Sweeping reforms of French higher education were prompted in part by its performance in world university rankings, the country's higher education minister has suggested.

The academic board of the London School of Economics has voted to set tuition fees at ?8,000 in 2012.

Over half of current final-year students would not have gone to university if they had faced tuition fees of ?9,000 a year, according to a new study.

A flurry of tuition fee announcements have been made as the deadline approaches for universities to submit draft access agreements to the Office for Fair Access.

Undergraduate claims he was gagged by students' union over contentious article. John Gill writes

The vice-chancellor of the University of Reading is to step down.

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.

Tainted money, allegations of plagiarism and surrender to the demands of angry student occupiers: the London School of Economics¡¯ links to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Mu¡¯ammer Gaddafi, has become an ethical and public relations quagmire.