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Cardiff University has confirmed that it is to launch a formal investigation into alleged research misconduct in the laboratory of its dean of medicine.
A University of Oxford college has created a full-time academic post dedicated to encouraging bright state-school students to apply to competitive universities.
The number of mainstream students set to start higher education courses in England this year is down 62,000, or 17 per cent, on last year's figures, analysis by Times Higher Education suggests.
Three of the 15 institutions initially chosen as potential destinations for London Metropolitan University's overseas students are commercial operators, it has emerged, after a £2 million fund was announced by the government to help students transfer.
The government has announced that it wants to publish more detailed figures on overseas students that "disaggregate" them from totals on net migration.
European universities need to improve their efforts to help doctoral students and academics spend time abroad, a report by the European University Association has found.
Universities are under increasing pressure to offer incoming students access to state-of-the-art technology because of the increased fees they are being asked to pay, according to a report published this week.
The Apollo 15 mission of July and August 1971 was the first to allow a manned spacecraft to spend an extended period of time - close to three days - on the surface of the Moon.
A major new resource devoted to the writings of "Shakespeare and his immediate contemporaries, antecedents and successors" has been launched by Oxford University Press.
Higher education investment in the UK as a share of national wealth has increased, but remains lower than that of other developed nations, an annual study has found.
The new director of the Office for Fair Access, Les Ebdon, has been accused by an MP of "salivating" at the prospect of handing fines of up to £500,000 to universities that miss targets for widening their student base.
International students at London Metropolitan University could be given a year to continue their course if the institution is given a chance to challenge its recent student visa ban.
A committee of MPs has called on the government to exclude overseas students from figures on net migration, warning that current policy risks "undermining a world class export market".
Visa compliance problems similar to those discovered at London Metropolitan University can be found at many other UK universities, a former Home Office director has said.
