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This watercolour of the medical kit owned by the great Victorian missionary and explorer David Livingstone (1813-73) was painted shortly after his death in what is now Zambia.
Sixty-three of the UK’s most prestigious universities face strikes over changes to pensions after members of the University and College Union backed stoppages.
The University of Exeter, which is led by Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, plans to set undergraduate tuition fees at £9,000 a year, the maximum allowed.
Tainted money, allegations of plagiarism and surrender to the demands of angry student occupiers: the London School of Economics’ links to Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of Libyan leader Mu’ammer Gaddafi, has become an ethical and public relations quagmire.
The weighting given to impact in the first research excellence framework will be less than originally envisaged, the Higher Education Funding Council for England has confirmed.
To keep prices down, loans will be extended to private-sector students and caps on places will be loosened, but minister wants more time to prepare White Paper
Research “impact” will count for less than the proposed 25 per cent in the research excellence framework, funding chiefs are expected to confirm next week.
UK universities could be eclipsed by those in emerging economies such as China and instead become more aligned with their middle-ranking counterparts in continental Europe if public funding continues to fall, a leading education economist has warned.
The "hard Left" has little chance of gaining control of the National Union of Students and support for its "fetishism" with street protests and occupations is already dwindling, the outgoing president of the National Union of Students has said.
Senior lawyers have voiced fears that the coming rises in tuition fees could harm the quality and diversity of their profession and have called for limits on the number of trainee barristers.
This glass model of a dissected cuttlefish is one of about 100 remarkable representations of marine life held by the Zoology and Marine Biology Museum at the National University of Ireland, Galway.
Proposed changes to the student visa system may be used as a political tool to create the “appearance” of a significant reduction in net migration, a new report claims.
The London School of Economics has severed links with the Libyan authorities following violence against anti-government protesters that has led to more than 200 deaths.
Government plans to overhaul the immigration system and drastically reduce the number of visas issued amount to a “hostile act against Britain’s universities” and contain elements that have an “ugly taste of apartheid”, a vice-chancellor has warned.
Vice-chancellors have been warned that either their research funding or student places could be cut if they charge tuition fees close to £9,000 without justification.
A disabled woman will make a final attempt to challenge the Office of the Independent Adjudicator next week in a case that has raised questions about the role and remit of the student complaints watchdog.
Business schools are going through a "pivotal time" in their development, according to a US-based task force set up to address the challenges posed by globalisation.
