Union leaders have criticised "lavish and needless" spending at Liverpool Hope University College as it confirmed a deficit approaching £1 million. The college this week said it was due to confirm an...
Universities and colleges have objected to government proposals to set in advance the proportion of top grades a subject can receive for research. Proposals in Sir Gareth Roberts' review of research...
Plant scientists using the technology of genetic modification are being driven out of the UK by increasingly vicious protests. Anna Fazackerley talks to some of them Plant scientists are questioning...
The government has produced no evidence to back its plans to concentrate research -a move that would serve only to stunt regional economies and handicap UK higher education in the international arena...
Students may increasingly choose a university in much the same way as people opt for designer clothes with the right "label", a former government economics adviser has warned. Sir Alan Budd, former...
Welsh Assembly plans to cut student access and hardship funds have been condemned by politicians and student union leaders. The assembly's planned budget for the next financial year shows a spending...
A Cambridge academic whose pioneering leukemia drug Campath generates more than £500,000 a year for the university this week revealed how the institution approved disclosure of his research results...
Funding chiefs have abandoned plans to force universities to publish reports by their external examiners amid concerns that opening up the traditionally confidential peer-review system would plunge...
York University has become the latest partner of private intellectual property company IP2IPO in a deal worth more than £2 million to the institution. The university's Centre for Novel Agricultural...
The prime minister's attitude to higher education is indicated in an extract from Robin Cook's recently published diaries. The former leader of the Commons writes: "Roy Hattersley tells me of an...
Warwick Business School's MBA programme has been assessing how effective it is in creating the business leaders of tomorrow. Scott Dacko, lecturer in marketing and strategic management, asked...
What exactly are the "supplementary payments for professors" listed in this week's Cambridge University Reporter ? The scheme was set up by former vice-chancellor Sir Alec Broers to recruit, reward...
Next week's conference of Commonwealth ministers of education in Edinburgh comes at a time of great challenges and stress in international relations. With its capacity for embracing, bridging and...
Britain's Nobel wins mask its fall as a scientific power - and only more cash can reverse that, says Peter Lampl It's been a great year for Britons as far as Nobel prizes are concerned. This is the...
Last weekend, BBC1's Panorama staged its own University Challenge with two teams battling it out over top-up fees. Interestingly, the schools representative on the pro top-up fees team happened to be...