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Foreign governments are warning their students and academics to avoid the UK in the wake of funding cuts and new visa regulations, universities have been told.
Any attempt by the government to siphon off a percentage of student places and reallocate them to universities offering the lowest fees would drive down quality and lead to larger class sizes, a vice-chancellor has told a cross-party group of MPs.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has strongly denied that it has been pressurised into funding research on the Conservative Party’s “Big Society” agenda.
Two years ago, Leeds Metropolitan University was the only higher education institution in England offering a substantial discount on tuition fees, charging just £2,000 a year.
A branch of the US Republican Party has been accused of attacking academic freedom by using freedom of information laws to access emails sent by a University of Wisconsin-Madison academic who criticised its policies.
Members of higher education unions will take to London’s streets to join a day of protest against government cuts to public services, while students plan to inject some “radical spirit” via a feeder march.
This sculpture of a kangaroo, located incongruously near the entrance of the library at Stockholm University, is the work of Torsten Renqvist (1924-2007).
The new head of the Student Loans Company is feeling "quietly confident" about the future despite the fiasco that left tens of thousands of undergraduates without funds.
The University and College Union has warned that it will step up industrial action for "maximum impact" on examinations and assessment if the employers do not return to the negotiating table on pensions.
Teesside University will lose almost a fifth of its teaching money in 2011-12 compared with its original grant allocation for this year after a £6.6 million clawback by the funding council, figures have shown.
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales could be scrapped and replaced by a new body holding full powers to govern Welsh universities under proposals welcomed by Leighton Andrews, Wales’ education minister.
London Metropolitan University is to charge under £6,000 a year for many courses in 2012, bucking the trend set by other institutions that have rushed to charge £9,000 a year.
The University of Surrey has become the latest English higher education institution to propose setting an undergraduate tuition fee of £9,000 a year for 2012-13.
The London School of Economics has appointed an interim director following the resignation of Sir Howard Davies over the school’s links with the Libyan regime.
Keele University is planning to shut down its philosophy department, a move critics describe as an “emblematic loss” that would damage the institution’s credibility.
These charts, pictures and illustrations (see images, right) all form part of the Otto and Marie Neurath Isotype Collection at the University of Reading.
The lack of previous experience among members of two subpanels in the forthcoming research excellence framework could undermine researchers' "grudging acceptance" of the exercise, an academic has warned.
