The pressure on universities to abandon national pay bargaining is likely to grow after another minimal pay offer to staff, a prominent personnel chief has argued.
Richard Descoings, the head of the Paris institution Sciences Po and one of the leading reformers in French higher education, has been found dead in a New York hotel room.
The vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University has defended his decision to cut the number of courses at his institution by two-thirds, and set out lessons for other universities that embark on similar overhauls.
The charity Cancer Research UK has teamed up with a venture capital organisation to launch a £50 million investment fund aimed at boosting the translation of its discoveries into new cancer treatments.
Universities will work to give students “clear and accurate” information about the additional costs of courses following an agreement between the National Union of Students and bodies representing UK institutions.
Glyndŵr University claims that it has been “disadvantaged” for “following government policy” after funding allocations for Welsh universities indicated that it could suffer a 20.3 per cent drop in its income in 2012-13
Almost all Russell Group universities have failed to reach independently set levels for admitting pupils from state schools and poorer backgrounds, new figures show.
The Medical Research Council has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan's main science funding body to pool resources on projects of "mutual strategic importance".
This 19th-century stuffed cyclopic piglet and plaster cast of a rattlesnake - brought to Scotland by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1904 - are among the strange and sometimes shocking natural history treasures of the Bell Pettigrew Museum at the University of St Andrews.
The Wellcome Trust has reacted to Research Councils UK's beefed-up open-access proposals by indicating that it will get "much tougher" on compliance with its own mandate.
This glass brain and spinal column, which pulsates electromagnetic light and reacts to human contact, is part of an exhibition currently taking place at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland.
Failure to protect teaching quality at low-cost higher education providers could threaten the health of the entire university sector, the former president of Universities UK has warned.
Universities have once again seen a rise in philanthropic donations, but there are warnings that a cap on tax relief announced in last week’s Budget could stop this progress “dead in its tracks”.
The National Audit Office has called for tougher action against overseas students who are breaking visa rules, prompting Universities UK to warn that “legitimate concerns about immigration” should not be allowed to cause “irreversible damage” to the nation’s higher education export industry.
Higher fees for UK master’s courses are deterring students from continuing their studies and the deterrent is strongest for those from poorer backgrounds, according to a new study.
Four learned societies have written to the prime minister to protest against plans to reduce the resources of the Lords Science and Technology Committee.
Developing countries wanting to improve their universities should emulate the success of Pakistan in retaining top academics by paying them hefty salaries, according to the country's former science minister.
This stained-glass triptych of saints, including St Agnes and St Hilda, has been restored to its original splendour in the former chapel of what is now the University of Chichester.
