The discovery of a particle with all the hallmarks of the long-sought Higgs boson is a “breakthrough in world science”, universities and science minister David Willetts said today.
The average starting salary in graduate-level jobs has increased by 6 per cent to £26,500 a year, according to a survey by the Association of Graduate Recruiters.
Applications by international students to study MBAs in the UK have been hit by unwelcoming government changes to visa policies, according to a survey from the Association of MBAs (AMBA).
The Welsh funding council will assess how the quality of higher education in the country’s universities can be improved in changes to its powers outlined in a White Paper released by the Cardiff government.
The University of Birmingham has withdrawn a job advertisement for an “honorary” unpaid research assistant after critics claimed the position was exploitative.
London will host the pharmaceuticals division of a new European court designed to handle patent disputes, the heads of European Union states agreed on 29 June.
A distinguished organisational theorist has called on academics to be far more willing to engage with business in order to co-produce work that can traverse the “double hurdle of scholarly and policy-practice impact”.
With the finals done and dusted for another year, Times Higher Education is making a final call for entries to its “exam howlers” competition, in which lecturers share their favourite examples of students’ mistakes and misunderstandings.
Evidence has emerged that some higher education institutions may be falling markedly short on undergraduate recruitment for next year, with the University of Gloucestershire warning staff that it is 30 per cent below its target for 2012-13.
A senior government official in Thailand has finally had his doctorate rescinded more than two years after a university investigation concluded that 80 per cent of his thesis on organic asparagus production had been plagiarised.
When the 2014 research excellence framework was being devised to take into account real-world impact, relocating a long-established university nursery to make way for such research was probably not what its designers had in mind.
Cardiff University is investigating reports that a prospective Chinese student was told by a recruitment agent that she could win a place at the institution despite not meeting its entry requirements.
More than one in six international students coming to study at universities in the UK have question marks over their “genuineness”, according to the results of Home Office interviews given to a cross-party group of MPs today.
The Council for Industry and Higher Education has announced plans to launch a National Centre for Universities and Business to strengthen links between the two sectors with the aim of driving economic growth.
Stonewall, the equality charity, has published its latest guide to the universities it considers to have the most gay-friendly policies and support for students.
A £120 million deal has been struck with the help of a former higher education minister to build a 2,000-bed student accommodation complex that will serve Newcastle University and the University of Northumbria.
The universities and science minister has appealed to private investors to support overseas expansion for UK universities and stated that investment bank Goldman Sachs is “keen to investigate this possibility”.
Universities need to update guidelines on industry collaboration to reinstate academic rights that have been "seriously eroded" over the past generation, a report by the American Association of University Professors has said.
A scheme brought in to address concerns over the impact of £9,000 tuition fees on students from poor backgrounds was designed in haste, an interim report on the project has said.
