The European Commission has announced plans to invest €22 billion (£19 billion) in public-private research and innovation projects over the next seven years.
The research excellence framework risks turning British economics into “a purely quaint academic subject with no connection to the real world”, an academic paper has warned.
Universities should play a bigger role in driving growth and should be more accessible to smaller businesses, according to a government-commissioned review.
Two university lecturers branded as being part of “bad academia” by the education secretary have denounced his proposals for the new National Curriculum.
London mayor Boris Johnson has provoked a storm of criticism on Twitter after joking that women in Malaysia need to go to university to find a husband.
Ministers should focus more resources on explaining the student finance system to parents to avoid children being put off university by debt, a thinktank says
Girls are outperforming boys in the sciences but are still not choosing to take such subjects ahead of university, a study on vocational qualifications has found.
Students entering university from state schools perform better than expected when securing a job after graduation compared with the privately educated, a new report says.
David Cameron has told David Willetts to build the UK’s offer to overseas students into a more persuasive “package” and urged him to attract more foreign universities to Britain.
Former home secretary David Blunkett is to become a visiting professor at the world’s first centre for the public understanding of politics, at the University of Sheffield.
Graduates from London South Bank University are the least likely to be in a job or studying six months after leaving, latest employment data have revealed.
