India: Modi appoints ex-TV star to higher education brief
Former Indian TV star Smriti Irani will be the minister responsible for the nation’s universities and colleges in Narendra Modi’s new government

Former Indian TV star Smriti Irani will be the minister responsible for the nation’s universities and colleges in Narendra Modi’s new government

Scheme offers young researchers the chance to build media profile

Government intervention after study suggests lack of language skills costing UK billions

Melissa Terras to call for ‘better communication’ of benefits

The University of Cambridge has opened a new postdoctoral centre for early career researchers.

But also emerges that watchdog passed LSST for educational oversight last September

Report identifies emerging technologies likely to have an impact on teaching, learning, and creative inquiry in tertiary institutions across Australia

There has been widespread dismay from artists, students and politicians after the listed Mackintosh building of the Glasgow School of Art caught fire

‘Wider range of options’ to be explored by University of London

A publisher has launched a pilot with 21 UK universities to reduce their subscription costs in proportion to the amount of open access fees they pay

The University of Nottingham has had to apologise for accidentally releasing personal data to around 13,000 people.

Oxford academic at centre of case says ‘clearly punitive investigation’ undermined ethnographic research

The UK’s public spending watchdog has been asked to investigate possible misuse of public money in the student loans system by for-profit colleges.

The University of Oxford has become the latest higher education institution to disaffiliate from the National Union of Students.

Governing councils give the green light to look at detail of deal