Some universities remain up to 600 students short of the number they need to recruit, amid suggestions that other institutions could be causing the shortfalls by "hanging on to" applicants who missed...
What is a deadline to the legally dead, spooks and spymasters? Jack Grove on extraordinary excuses
Only a fifth of humanities and social science academics regard it as acceptable for academic publishers to make a profit that is not reinvested in their disciplines.
Further education colleges are doing better than expected in attracting students from areas with low rates of higher education participation, but they also have higher-than-predicted dropout rates...
The University of Glasgow has declined to publish the findings of its investigation into suspected research misconduct by a former professor of immunopharmacology.
University Alliance's new leader talks funding policy and standing firm. John Morgan reports
British universities are drifting towards a "dangerous state of affairs" where they are governed by "official knowledge" and "official teaching".
The chief executive of the London School of Commerce (LSC), an associate college of Cardiff Metropolitan University, and his wife received a dividend of £1 million in 2010, company accounts show.
ScotlandSalmond recipe for supportA package of extra financial support for Scottish students has been unveiled by the Holyrood government. As part of the measures, students with a family income of...
To work best, the market in outreach work needs a balance of competition and cooperation, says Graeme Atherton
Academics worldwide face economic and political attacks that restrict their freedom to challenge convention, says Jo Glanville
Statistics compiled by Poppleton University's Centre for Inconsequential Findings That Are Likely To Get In The Newspapers show that 82 per cent of the UK's academics are currently taking statutory...
Before we get too smug about the possibilities of hordes of discontented US academics flocking to these shores to experience the delights of the research excellence framework, the National Student...
Data released by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills earlier this month reveal that just 18 per cent of state school pupils who had been eligible for free school meals at the age of 15...
As a dynamic service, the Bodleian Libraries is indeed changing, but the picture painted by G.R. Evans ("Shelf harm", Letters, 23 August) is not what it seems.The relocation of the History Faculty...