Students enrolling at university in 2012-13 will have to earn salaries of 拢50,000 a year immediately after graduating if they are to pay off their student loan debt before the 30-year government...
Oil giant Shell is to close its main UK research and development base, moving the laboratory activities overseas.
A member of the Browne Review panel has expressed frustration that its plans for fees and funding were not met with a 鈥渕ore favourable鈥 response by government, adding that the reforms subsequently...
A medical student who twice failed his final-year exams has lost a legal battle against the decision not to award him a degree.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has said academics at the institution have been left 鈥減rofoundly saddened and shocked鈥 by the death of a professor of astrophysics.
The number of firsts and 2:1s awarded by UK universities has continued to rise, now accounting for almost two thirds of undergraduates completing their first degree.
Research misconduct is 鈥渁live and well鈥 at UK universities, the British Medical Journal has claimed.
V-c forecasts sunshine for a leaner, more fiscally sound University of West London. Jack Grove writes
Online education will turn the academy inside out, argue US authors. Sarah Cunnane reports
Lack of v-cs who have come out is 'an issue across the sector', says Stonewall. David Matthews writes
A worsening in the student-to-staff ratio in midwifery courses in recent years could be compromising the quality of teaching, a union has warned.
Hefce announces second batch of Revolving Green Fund projects. David Matthews reports
MMR vaccine study disputeWakefield sues BMJ for libelThe former doctor whose discredited research linked the MMR vaccine to autism has launched a libel suit against the British Medical Journal....
United StatesWe can't all be Frank Lloyd WrightStudents in architecture and the arts are among the most likely to struggle to find work after graduating, according to a US study. Unemployment among...
The coalition's university reforms seem ill-conceived to Ireland's funding chief. Matthew Reisz reports