In the US academy, engagement with the surrounding community and learning through service are 150-year-old ideals whose time has come again - but is the driving force altruism or self-interest?
The anti-doping facilities serving the London 2012 Games will become a “groundbreaking” research centre into personalised medicine after the Olympics have ended, it has been announced.
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service’s tariff points scheme is a step closer to being scrapped after a consultation showed there was “considerable” support for the move.
A cross-party group of MPs has recommended a change in the law to prevent unpublished research data being released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Regent's College has become the latest private institution to be granted degree-awarding powers, and it now aims to become only the second private university in the UK.
A Brown University chemistry class from the 1870s poses for a photograph on the steps of Rogers Hall (now the Salomon Center) as a professor, John Appleton, appears to watch current students leaving the 150-year-old building after a morning class.
The amount of money that UK universities earn from knowledge exchange rose by 7 per cent to just over £3.3 billion between 2009-10 and 2010-11, according to a report by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
The European Commission's efforts to create a single market for research across Europe by 2014, a deadline set last year by European Union ministers, have entered a new phase.
The University of Manchester has admitted assessing the English skills of some international students with a language test deemed unsuitable for admissions, mainly in order to allow poorer students to apply for scholarships.
University College London's museums and laboratories will host more than 300 secondary school pupils from this September, after delays to the building of their UCL-sponsored academy left them without a school.
A Supreme Court ruling could pave the way for a "flood" of appeals from private colleges and overseas students against a significant number of government immigration decisions, lawyers have said.
A university has launched an online petition in a bid to persuade the Law Society not to break up a unique historic collection of about 5,000 manuscripts, early and rare ecclesiastical books and pamphlets that is held by the institution.
The Home Office has confirmed it will continue with the system of “educational oversight”, which requires private higher education colleges to pass inspections carried out by the Quality Assurance Agency.
De Montfort University has confirmed that it has secured funding from private investors via a £110 million public bond, with other universities expected to follow it into the bond markets.
A university information website by Which? could become a more influential source of advice for students than the Quality Assurance Agency or official data sources such as Key Information Sets, an expert on higher education law has predicted.
