Fresh worries have been raised that visa reforms could be damaging the ability of UK universities to recruit students from overseas after more evidence emerged of a large drop in demand from India.
A Danish businessman has told a conference of European educators that university managers who resist the profit motive are sticking with a strategy that is 鈥渁s dead as disco鈥.
The government鈥檚 rhetoric on the protection of science funding has not been matched by the 鈥渁larming鈥 fiscal reality, according to the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
Investment in higher education in the UK as a share of national wealth dropped further behind the average among industrialised countries even before the current funding reforms, according to an annual report.
Northern Ireland has become the latest of the devolved nations to announce that its universities will charge 鈥渞est-of-UK鈥 students up to 拢9,000 a year 鈥 a move that will subsidise lower fees for the province鈥檚 own students.
Young people are more concerned about tuition fees and debt when thinking about university than they are about employment prospects, a new survey suggests.
The University of St Andrews has joined the University of Edinburgh in offering the most expensive undergraduate courses in the UK for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students.
Tuition fees for Northern Irish students wanting to study in the Province will be maintained at close to current levels and institutional budgets will be protected by a 拢40 million investment, the Northern Ireland Executive has announced.
Around a dozen universities in England are considering lowering their tuition fees for 2012-13 in light of the government鈥檚 proposals to hive off some places to institutions charging less than 拢7,500, it has emerged.
The final methodology for the 2011-12 World University Rankings has been unveiled by Times Higher Education, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday, 6 October 2011.
Universities' reputations could suffer if undergraduates perceive that the institutions are leaving teaching to "an insufficiently trained, inappropriately paid and poorly motivated workforce of teaching assistants", according to a new study.
Employees of students' unions are to see their final-salary pension scheme closed in a move affecting about 1,000 staff at 69 universities across the UK.
This glass and steel cross, which now stands at the heart of the University of Chester's main campus on Parkgate Road, was originally created as an anguished response to the political climate of the 1980s.
Research that suggests university enrolment could fall by at least 5 per cent due to higher tuition fees has been seized upon by the National Union of Students as a 鈥渟tark warning鈥 that the government should re-examine its funding reforms.
Physics and engineering academics are having to teach students who are unprepared for their courses because of 鈥渁 gap in knowledge鈥 on maths, the Institute of Physics has warned.
The UK鈥檚 only for-profit provider with degree-awarding powers has undercut almost all English universities with its tuition fees for 2012-13 by planning to charge undergraduates between 拢12,000 and 拢15,000 for a complete course.
The final methodology for the 2011-12 World University Rankings is today unveiled by Times Higher Education, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday 6 October 2011.
Academics should step aside to allow school teachers to become the country鈥檚 new 鈥渋ntellectual guardians鈥, the head of Britain鈥檚 teacher training body has said.
Changes to the university funding regime will bring an 鈥渁brupt halt鈥 to improvements in the number of young people in care who go on to university, an education expert has warned.
