A pay-day loans company has been accused of preying on vulnerable students after advertising itself as an alternative to government-backed student loans.
The University of California, Berkeley has unveiled plans for a new financial aid scheme explicitly aimed at helping middle-class students with their tuition fees.
Students currently going through the higher education system are part of a "net generation" who expect instant feedback because of their heavy reliance on mobile phones, social media and video games, a conference has heard.
The senate of Queen Mary, University of London, has become the latest academic body to pass a vote of no confidence in universities and science minister David Willetts.
A quarter of all new undergraduate courses fail to attract a single student, a major study has found, with the proportion rising to half for joint-honours programmes.
Foreign academics working in the US are more productive than their American counterparts – but are also less satisfied with their work, a study has concluded.
The government’s higher education reforms have created “unnecessary risk†for universities, the shadow business secretary has said in his first major speech on the sector.
University chancellors are a mixed bag of rock stars and actors, politicians and entrepreneurs, but are they mere glad-handing figureheads or can they make a genuine difference to the institution over which they preside? Sarah Cunnane finds out
A senior lecturer at Teesside University is reported to have been arrested as part of Operation Weeting, the ongoing Metropolitan Police investigation into phone hacking.
