A college that offers courses validated by the University of Wales has been linked to an alleged scam that helped foreign students to cheat their way to qualifications.
All business people should be able to “knock on the doors” of a university and ask for training and help with research, David Willetts has told the Conservative Party conference.
The government has announced nearly £200 million in new science capital spending which it hopes will cement the UK’s status as “home to the greatest scientists and engineers”.
Up to 6,000 undergraduate places that are being auctioned off to low-cost institutions will go to further education colleges rather than universities, the Labour Party has claimed.
The government has come in for fierce criticism from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in strongly-worded submissions to the White Paper consultation.
The University of Wales, Newport, has responded to proposals for a radical contraction in the number of Welsh universities with plans for a new institution in the South East of the country.
Many students face a shortfall of over £8,000 a year when state support is compared to the cost of living for the 2011-12 academic year, a new analysis suggests.
This collection of 29 horses' teeth was assembled by Louis Auzoux (1797-1880), a French doctor who made models of humans, animals and plants for use in teaching medicine and anatomy.
Women in their forties and early fifties are the least satisfied among principal investigators with the way they are treated by their universities, a survey has found.
Australia is to relax its visa rules for overseas students, increasing the competition faced by UK universities just as the coalition government tightens British regulations.
Lancaster University and the University of Liverpool could unite to form a "federal structure" akin to the University of California as other research-intensive universities explore collaborations to secure a place in the global elite.
The Scottish Funding Council has stressed that "no decisions have been taken" after it emerged that it had asked the University of Dundee and the University of Abertay Dundee to consider merging.
Forty university chaplains have signed a letter criticising the coalition government’s White Paper for seeing higher education in “highly individual” terms.
The Labour Party would reduce the annual tuition fee cap to £6,000 if it were in power, Ed Miliband has said, in an apparent move away from favouring a graduate tax.
Six leading scientific bodies, including the Royal Society, have urged the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to reconsider its controversial “shaping capability” measures.
Universities in Europe have been advised by a World Bank official to look to developing countries for inspiration rather than copying British and US models of higher education.
A lack of biomedical scientists on one of the subpanels for the research excellence framework has caused "grave concerns" over the credibility of the exercise, a representative body has warned.
