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The Open University has ended its six-and-a-half-year affiliation with the University Alliance mission group.
As junta’s grip relaxes, Aung San Suu Kyi joins drive to rebuild sector
Coventry University’s Madeleine Atkins emerges triumphant from a ‘strong field’ of candidates
Sector may lose places after new inspection regime reports dip in standards
The Home Office has confirmed it will be rolling out a £8,000 premium visa service for institutions from today.
A former Labour minister has called for an increase in public spending on higher education to close the “international competitive gap”.
British Academy’s new president demands clarity and humility
Interviews begin for chief executive post: will a woman get the nod at last?
Critics doubt legality of regulatory framework’s disciplinary powers
Universities are too focused on students who go “punting on the Wear or the Cam”, while gaining degree-awarding powers is cloaked in magical secrecy.
The government has defended its innovation policy after criticisms that the lack of a coherent strategy was harming UK business.
Offa data another blow to ministerial claims of ‘competitive pressure’
Can an academic conference calmly debate Israel and boycotts?
Willetts aims to fill ‘black hole’ left by failure of higher education bill
Major study quantifies price of immigration regulation
Geraldine Van Bueren berates the government for its disproportionate response to Trenton Oldfield’s actions
The £1.1 billion annual investment in science capital announced in last month’s spending round is the biggest “for decades” and must not be wasted.
Two university lecturers branded as being part of “bad academia” by the education secretary have denounced his proposals for the new National Curriculum.
London mayor Boris Johnson has provoked a storm of criticism on Twitter after joking that women in Malaysia need to go to university to find a husband.
Ministers should focus more resources on explaining the student finance system to parents to avoid children being put off university by debt, a thinktank says
David Cameron has told David Willetts to build the UK’s offer to overseas students into a more persuasive “package” and urged him to attract more foreign universities to Britain.
Former home secretary David Blunkett is to become a visiting professor at the world’s first centre for the public understanding of politics, at the University of Sheffield.
Cardiff v-c Colin Riordan tells sector to support Europe if a referendum is held
Offa chief: £150m committed by universities now part of access agreements
Universities minister odds-on to stay in place in event of July reshuffle
International students coming to the UK could have to pay at least £200 a year to use the National Health Service under plans unveiled by the government.
The government has announced a fund worth up to £125 million to support disadvantaged students into further study, as a new report reveals postgraduate numbers fell last year.
Australia’s new higher education minister is to consider re-imposing a numbers caps on undergraduate admissions amid concerns about quality
Glasgow Caledonian University has said it is happy that the PhD thesis of Iran’s new president elect is properly referenced and is not undertaking a formal academic investigation
The European Union’s next research and innovation funding programme, known as Horizon 2020, looks set to begin on schedule next year
Announcement comes as new details emerge about increased science capital budget
After 12 months barred from travel to US, Nasir Warfa can reopen his diary
Funds are allocated on project quality not desire to support elite, says minister. Chris Parr reports
Government’s latest scheme already seen as insult abroad
Transfer should be reversed to improve widening participation, Bill Rammell says
The new chancellor of the University of South Wales tells David Matthews that the word deters poor pupils
Protection for science and research spending will be maintained in 2015-16 while the capital budget will be increased to £1.1 billion, the chancellor George Osborne announced today.
The National Scholarship Programme is to be cut by £100 million and made postgraduate-only, as part of savings announced in the coalition’s spending round.
The capital budget for science will be increased to £1.1 billion in 2015-16 and maintained in real terms until the end of the decade, the chancellor George Osborne has announced.
Leighton Andrews, the Welsh education minister who drove through controversial university mergers, has been forced to resign his position
A decision by the House of Commons Education Committee to launch an inquiry into the government’s flagship policy for recruiting teachers has been welcomed by a higher education group.
The coalition’s aim to reduce net migration to the “tens of thousands” by 2015 makes more than half of international students in the UK feel less welcome, according to a new survey.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has reached a settlement with the Treasury in negotiations over the 2015-16 spending review, reports suggest
Sources say switch of medical education and research budgets to Department of Health increasingly unlikely
Minister wins fans for affirming value of data
NUS’ outgoing leader tells John Morgan that v‑cs and Russell Group must press the sector’s case to government
No such thing as higher education sector, PA Consulting poll hears
Student protests brought down a government but failed to freeze tuition fees: what’s next for a province where universities remain high on the political agenda? Elizabeth Gibney reports from Montreal
Cuts to widening participation funds anticipated to meet spending review targets
Medical research charities want funding protected in spending review
Martin McQuillan warns of a possible Manhattan Project for the sector
US politics is not keen on the theoretical, Alan Ryan discovers
Scientific research in the UK has been harmed by the current spending freeze, a report has claimed
Vince Cable, the business secretary, says he has “ruled out categorically” any rise in interest rates for graduates who took out student loans before 2012, while stressing that plans for a sale of student loans are ongoing
The Queen’s Birthday Honours List includes a knighthood for Eric Thomas, the University of Bristol vice-chancellor and Universities UK president
The government should urgently clarify its plans for the sale of the student loan book and reassure existing graduates that their repayments will not be raised, according to Labour’s shadow higher education minister.
Science ministers from the G8 group of the world’s richest countries have jointly endorsed the need to increase access to publicly-funded research.
Just four European countries spend less as a proportion of national income
IPPR report offers stark warning over £6,000 plans
Convention for Higher Education’s rallying cry against coalition’s university reforms
