The student complaints watchdog has confounded critics who predicted its bark would be worse than its bite by ordering universities to pay compensation to students in all three of the appeals it has...
The hidden cost of the Government's top-up fee reforms came to light this week as it emerged that universities may have to pay administration costs of £15 for every bursary they award - which could...
Being in charge of Britain's "big science" budget used to be a frustrating experience, with too many opportunities and too little cash. But Ian Halliday, the outgoing chief executive of the Particle...
Young researchers challenged senior research council figures this week to explain how they were expected to survive job insecurity and insufficient funding, writes Anna Fazackerley. PhD and...
Chris Patten, chancellor of Oxford University, has spoken out against the institution going private, arguing that the Government must ramp up funding for its "enormous national assets". Speaking...
Northumbria University's latest student recruits are soldiers who have signed up as the result of a shake-up of the Ministry of Defence's education programme. Eleven trainee engineering officers from...
Oxford Brookes University has excluded a 12th student following The Times Higher 's investigation into the use of fake qualifications to secure places across the UK higher education sector, writes...
Protecting British science from animal rights extremists will form a key part of the Government's final Parliamentary term before the widely anticipated spring general election. In the Queen's Speech...
A Siberian scientist who was acquitted last year on charges of espionage, fraud and selling space secrets to the Chinese has been sentenced to 14 years' hard labour after a retrial. Viktor Danilov,...
A raft of new measures to help Scotland attract and retain top scientists, engineers and technologists has been proposed in a report from the independent Scottish Science Advisory Committee. The...
Staff and students are battling to save Cambridge University's School of Architecture from closure, pointing to its popularity with students and a tripling of research income in three years, writes...
The Government must resolve a dispute between architecture's two governing bodies that has left academics groaning under red tape, the Royal Institute of British Architects said this week. Riba wants...
Warwick University is looking to open a campus in Singapore for up to 10,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students after an invitation from the city-state's government. The university said it was "...
Two universities in the north of England have concluded major sponsorship deals with the world of rugby league and both see it as money as well spent in terms of recruiting students from working-...
Further education colleges plan to divorce themselves from problematic partnerships with local universities to offer foundation degrees validated by a new national consortium. More than 80...