David Willetts, the universities and science minister, has been attacked by a Tory colleague for showing "snobbishness" on university access and perpetuating an "authoritarian elitist fantasy" in his...
The proportion of staff submitted by each unit of assessment to the 2014 research excellence framework will become clear for the first time after the Higher Education Statistics Agency announced it...
The government has appointed a reviewer to assess any appeals by universities against decisions taken by Les Ebdon, the director of fair access.
A university will this week welcome 90 academics from a single Japanese institution in what thought to be the biggest international symposium of its kind held in the UK.
The coalition government has praised universities as "the driving force behind our increasingly high-tech, knowledge-based economy" in its mid-term review.
The Council for Assisting Refugee Academics (Cara) has called for urgent support to be given to Syrian academics and students caught up in the country’s civil war.
A former researcher at the universities of Glasgow and Liverpool has been found guilty of serious scientific misconduct by his previous university in Singapore.
The fall in university applications could be "a societal turning-point" and the government must launch a national campaign to ensure higher education is seen as affordable, a vice-chancellor and...
University applicant numbers have continued to fall for the second consecutive year - with around 18,000 fewer people applying to higher education compared to the same time last year, new figures...
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch Project GrantsSciences• Award winner: Colin Campbell• Institution: University of Edinburgh• Value: £243,900Mapping local steady state redox potentials with subcellular...
A world-renowned pianist, musicologist and polymathic writer on cultural themes has died.Charles Rosen was born in New York on 5 May 19 and lived to the end of his life in the apartment he moved into...
The readers of ߣߣÊÓƵ owe a huge debt of gratitude to Paul Ramsden, a consultant in teaching and learning in higher education, for solving in one short article the conundrum that has...
Regarding "The week in higher education" on 29 November. One entry stated: "Universities have largely abandoned examinations in favour of 'spoon-fed' coursework, according to an article in The Sunday...
Regarding "The world in their sights: Science without Borders", part of your recent cover feature "Boom times and golden goals" (13 December). The Science without Borders programme in the UK has...
I am sure that many in higher education identified with the UK Border Agency's recent administrative headaches ("'Illegal' students reports ignored", News in brief, 6 December), but that is where the...