The government’s higher education reforms are built round a set of “meretricious policy concepts” – competition, choice and access – which are in fact “virus-like destroyers of the idea of a...
Glyndwr University has been saved from merger after the Welsh education minister rejected a proposal that it should move into a “group structure” managed by Bangor and Aberystwyth universities.
A major barrier to universities saving money by sharing services is set to be removed by the government.
Science organisations have welcomed the government’s announcement of £200 million in additional capital spending.
Considering a pupil’s social background in admissions should become the “norm, not the exception”, the government’s social mobility tsar has said.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
The University of East Anglia is to close its School of Music.
The number of UK students who have applied to university for 2012, when they will be charged fees of up to £9,000, has fallen by 15.1 per cent on the same point last year.
The Scottish government has pledged loans to support an extra 2,300 postgraduate students, bringing the total supported places up to 4,000.
Research-intensive universities in the UK should be considering setting up more campuses overseas to counter the threat of falling international student numbers at home, a mission group has said.
A new web system has been launched which aims to make it easier for academics to detail the impact of their work.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has been warned that the deadline set for final decisions on its controversial “shaping capabilities” programme may be too tight to allow the...
The University of Sheffield has scooped the top prize of University of the Year at this year’s ߣߣƵ Awards.Announced as the winner at a ceremony at the Grosvenor House hotel in Park...
Research into eye disease, a ground-breaking creative writing course and work to improve food security has helped 18 universities to win Queen’s Anniversary prizes for higher and further education.
This year’s ߣߣƵ Awards see the university’s three core missions of research, teaching and engagement represented in an array of innovation and inspiration. Among the research...