More Scottish students have been accepted on to places at universities in the country than this time a year ago, according to the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.
Almost a fifth of the athletes competing for Great Britain at the London 2012 Olympics are current or former students from five UK universities, an analysis has shown.
The University of Edinburgh’s department of chemistry has become only the second department to win the UK’s top accolade for addressing the under-representation of women in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and medicine.
The University of Salford aims to win £5 million of contracts to train workers in the UK and abroad through a new subsidiary company launched this week.
In the US academy, engagement with the surrounding community and learning through service are 150-year-old ideals whose time has come again - but is the driving force altruism or self-interest?
The anti-doping facilities serving the London 2012 Games will become a “groundbreaking” research centre into personalised medicine after the Olympics have ended, it has been announced.
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service’s tariff points scheme is a step closer to being scrapped after a consultation showed there was “considerable” support for the move.
A cross-party group of MPs has recommended a change in the law to prevent unpublished research data being released under the Freedom of Information Act.
Regent's College has become the latest private institution to be granted degree-awarding powers, and it now aims to become only the second private university in the UK.
The European Commission's efforts to create a single market for research across Europe by 2014, a deadline set last year by European Union ministers, have entered a new phase.
The University of Manchester has admitted assessing the English skills of some international students with a language test deemed unsuitable for admissions, mainly in order to allow poorer students to apply for scholarships.
University College London's museums and laboratories will host more than 300 secondary school pupils from this September, after delays to the building of their UCL-sponsored academy left them without a school.
A Supreme Court ruling could pave the way for a "flood" of appeals from private colleges and overseas students against a significant number of government immigration decisions, lawyers have said.
A Brown University chemistry class from the 1870s poses for a photograph on the steps of Rogers Hall (now the Salomon Center) as a professor, John Appleton, appears to watch current students leaving the 150-year-old building after a morning class.
