Teaching in universities that are usually ranked towards the bottom of higher education league tables is more consistently of a high standard than instruction at institutions towards the top of the rankings, a study has suggested.
The vice-chancellor of an Australian university is to step down along with his deputy over âirregularitiesâ that helped a close relative to secure a place at the institution.
The Astronomer Royal has called for a system of scientific research funding which puts far less stress on âimproving efficiency in the âoffice managementâ senseâ and sets out to âmaximize the chance of landmark achievementsâ.
Universities that do not demonstrate âextensive school involvementâ in their initial teacher training provision may cease to be able to offer such courses.
Thousands of students are due to march through London on 9 November in a âday of actionâ coordinated by the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts.
A total of 27 universities and colleges have applied to lower their tuition fees in 2012-13 so they can compete for some of the 20,000 cut-price places being created by the government.
A substantial collection of material relating to New Jersey-born rock legend Bruce Springsteen has been acquired by Monmouth University in West Long Branch, US.
The gap between the salaries of workers with postgraduate degrees and those holding only undergraduate degrees has grown significantly, a study has shown.
Applicants for Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council grants will have to identify the national importance of their research for up to 50 years in the future.
Observers have welcomed the news that women will be permitted to submit one fewer output to the 2014 research excellence framework for each period of pregnancy they have during the census period.
Universities wishing to improve the "student experience" have been warned they are placing too much emphasis on satisfaction scores despite their limited usefulness.
The head of outreach programmes at the University of Cambridge has said that students at the institution are "appreciably better" than they were 20 years ago.
Universities will have to ditch the conservatism that has allowed them to survive in the past and change at a much greater pace if they are to prosper in the future, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has argued.
More than 450 private colleges have been stopped from recruiting international students after most of them failed to sign up to the Home Officeâs new rules for inspection of the sector.
Lancaster University has announced plans to collaborate with Guangdong University of Foreign Studies to build a new university campus in Guangzhou, China.
An academic involved in the scandal over links between the Gaddafi regime and the London School of Economics is to leave the institution ahead of a report into the affair.
Funding chiefs in England have told the government they have âconcernsâ about the timetable for implementing a new regulatory framework for higher education, warning the challenge of bringing in some reforms by 2013 should ânot be underestimatedâ.
Employers have agreed to hold fresh talks with the University and College Union over the sectorâs biggest pension fund, following the start of industrial action.
Two sixth-form students have launched legal action against what they claim is the governmentâs âunlawfulâ decision to treble the tuition fee cap to ÂŁ9,000.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has declined to mothball its controversial shaping capability policy but agreed to work more closely with learned societies on implementing it.
The sector's main pension fund is likely to be judged as having a ÂŁ2.9 billion deficit, potentially requiring an injection of funds from universities and damaging the case for the University and College Union's industrial action against changes to the scheme.
Ahead of Lord Woolfâs report on the scandal of the LSEâs links with Libya, Christopher Davidson examines the issue of UK university funding by Gulf autocracies in the light of the Arab Spring
The new head of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has "an understanding of academic research, which his predecessor sadly lacked", a senior academic has said.
