Ben Jonson online resource launched
A new interactive website has been launched to provide the definitive resource for studying the great 17th-century poet and playwright Ben Jonson

A new interactive website has been launched to provide the definitive resource for studying the great 17th-century poet and playwright Ben Jonson

Economic and Social Research Council chief executive Paul Boyle has been appointed as the next vice-chancellor of the University of Leicester

A former psychiatric nurse who is now a lecturer in creative writing has been awarded the Costa Book of the Year award for his debut novel.

Scotland’s universities are being damaged by a Westminster immigration policy that is “driven by Ukip and a nasty xenophobia”

Fraunhofer UK plans to create up to four research centres in its first five years, according to the head of the country’s first centre in Glasgow

University staff have taken part in a second two-hour strike over this year’s 1 per cent pay offer

The budget for universities in Scotland will remain almost exactly the same in cash terms in 2014-15, the Scottish Funding Council has confirmed

The number of Americans taking full undergraduate degrees in the UK has risen by almost 30 per cent in the last four years, new figures show

A Catholic college has become the UK’s newest university

Harvard comes top in the FT’s Global MBA Ranking 2014

By Allie Grasgreen, for Inside Higher Ed

Queen’s and Ulster can take part in Science Foundation Ireland’s Investigators Programme

Taught postgraduate courses are facing a “perfect storm” caused by drops in student numbers and a fall in institution income

The vice-chancellor of Manchester Metropolitan University is to retire at the end of the year.

Arguing the case for market forces in higher education will become harder if a university looks likely to fail, warns Emran Mian