Whistleblowers contacted England's funding council 18 times in the past two years, alerting it to allegations that included pressure being put on staff to lie during an audit and the manipulation of National Student Survey results.
London Metropolitan University is set to cut its administration costs by up to 50 per cent by sharing services with other institutions, bringing "some staff losses and some staff gains".
In 2010, sculptor Tom Harvey created this work from the remains of a 250-year-old cedar tree - the oldest on the campus of The Open University - which had fallen victim to an infestation of the small cedar aphid.
David Willetts has set out proposals for major multi-national corporations to join forces with a foreign or British university and establish new graduate-only research institutions in the UK.
Students at King’s College, Cambridge, spent so much time on protests challenging the higher education reforms that they neglected their studies, according to its provost.
The income generated by education exports in Australia has fallen by 15 per cent as a result of a downturn in the number of overseas students choosing to study in the country.
David Willetts has expressed his "frustration" that the Browne Review did not address postgraduate funding, despite his own government's failure to resolve the issue.
Brazil has announced a second round of applications for a £1.3 billion study-abroad scheme that could result in thousands of students coming to UK universities.
These images from the University of Nottingham's Manuscripts and Special Collections feature in an interactive Advent calendar that has been unveiled day by day over the festive period.
The vice-chancellor of the University of the West of England has been elected as the new chair of the University Alliance as the mission group expands its membership to 24 institutions.
The funding settlement for Scottish universities for the next academic year has been welcomed by Universities Scotland and the National Union of Students.
University College London’s senior administrative officer has pressed its students’ union to drop a motion of no confidence in the provost, Malcolm Grant.
The University of California, Berkeley has unveiled plans for a new financial aid scheme explicitly aimed at helping middle-class students with their tuition fees.
Students' social backgrounds may be less of a factor in determining whether they drop out of university than was previously thought, a major study has concluded.
Concerns have been expressed about the failure of the government's innovation and research strategy to address issues such as postgraduate finance and visa regulations.
