The provision by universities of “strategically important and vulnerable” subjects such as mathematics, science and modern languages would have suffered if the funding council had not intervened with...
Two universities have failed to comply with decisions made by the student complaints watchdog, in the first such instances, a cross-party group of MPs has heard.
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed
Fears about the future of postgraduate study in the UK have been raised by a survey which suggests that many current students would not embark on postgraduate study if they had to pay undergraduate...
The University of Liverpool has announced plans to invest £600 million in its facilities, with £250 million of that sum going towards new student accommodation.
European Union funding for research and innovation should be more focused on green growth, according to a Department for Business, Innovation and Skills report.
The University of Birmingham sent senior administrators to two US institutions for a “transatlantic summit” as part of its preparations for the UK’s more market-oriented funding regime.
Lord Sainsbury of Turville, the businessman and former science minister, has been nominated by the University of Cambridge to succeed the Duke of Edinburgh as chancellor after the royal stands down...
Rankings provide insights that can help guide policymakers, but politicians must be aware of their inherent limitations, says Phil Baty
A number of universities fear that up to a third of overseas postgraduate students may fail to take up their places this autumn due to changes to visa rules, it has been claimed.
A return to the beginning of history recasts the story of modernisation. Frank Furedi is enlightened
Christoph Bode gets a backstage pass to the creation of a scholar's fiction and his academic work
Like so many other people, I am often tired and drowning in a morass of demands. At these times I long to be somewhere calm, hot and by the sea because, as Jessica Jacobs points out, a beach holiday...
Does the world need another book about Richard Feynman? The legendary physicist's life and work is nothing if not well documented. There are scholarly studies of his main contributions to science, in...
Will the world be steered by a benign hegemon or by darker forces? Andrew Gamble wonders