(Photograph) - Cambridge University has launched an appeal to support its purchase of the Macclesfield Newton Collection, a major archive of Sir Issac Newton's letters and papers, which has been...
Some British universities are recruiting sub-standard researchers because of a shortage of high-calibre candidates. In a survey of deans of science, carried out by the pressure group Save British...
Universities must significantly increase their intake of poorer students, according to a "watershed" report on access to be published this autumn. The Commons' education sub-committee report, due in...
King's College London is expected to shed more than 300 staff in its attempt to save up to Pounds 11 million. The cuts will be made across the board despite balanced books and the sale of some prime...
The row over top-up fees escalated this week as the vice-chancellor of Teesside University called for elite institutions to forgo their public funding. In an outspoken attack, Derek Fraser set...
All but a tiny minority of elite universities would see funding cuts if top-up fees were introduced, and one in five universities might close, lecturers' union Natfhe has warned, writes Phil Baty. In...
Brian Duffield, chief executive of the University of the Highlands and Islands project, resigned this week, hours before UHI Foundation members received a report into alleged complaints of...
Consultants say Pounds 250 million accountability regime is 'poor value for money' The accountability regime is to be completely overhauled after a report published this week found "the current...
Why are some universities more successful at hanging on to students than others? Alison Goddard reports. The coming weeks are crucial for potential students. The scramble for places during clearing...
The accountability review - which shows that the costs of administering any extra funding can be disproportionate to the extra money awarded - is the first of three evaluations of the sector to...
A series of burdens on universities and colleges have been generated by weaknesses in the way the funding council fulfils its various roles, the report says. The lack of a direct link between funding...
The RAE encourages "inappropriate behaviour" - such as tactically switching research staff between departments to optimise RAE scores and producing more but shorter articles for publication, rather...
A single subject review visit by the QAA can produce enough paperwork to fill two skips. In one department, a photocopier was worn out by paperwork. The report confirms that the cost of conforming to...
If universities were set free in the market to pursue their own destinies, what would happen? Tony Dickson, deputy vice-chancellor of Northumbria University, thinks "it's high time we found out". "...
Reading University cannot guarantee that its students are treated fairly and equally, say quality chiefs. Faculties calculate degree classifications differently and there are too few safeguards...