David Willetts has said the estimated public cost of the new student loans system “could rise further”, a factor that critics fear could leads to cuts elsewhere in the higher education budget and the...
Comedian Johnny Vegas has mounted a heart-felt defence of art school, claiming that the new fees regime will dissuade students from deprived backgrounds studying for creative degrees to the detriment...
Sixteen UK higher education institutions are to benefit from a £50 million investment in research projects designed to drive economic growth, the universities and science minister has said.
A department of Imperial College London has withdrawn the offer of an internship placement being sold by auction after the move received heavy criticism.
The government’s innovation agency the Technology Strategy Board will see a £50 million boost to its budget this year, the government has announced.
There is “no sign” that students paying up to £9,000 in tuition fees in 2012-13 are receiving more for their money from universities, according to a survey of contact hours, workload and satisfaction.
A study into transnational education has found that it can help train students to fill skills gaps in host countries, but also warned that it can contribute to a brain drain and has not led to...
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Editors have noted a “certain level of sloppiness” creeping into research papers, the executive editor of the Nature Publishing Group has said.
Students who use a Btec qualification to progress to a degree are slightly more likely to gain employment than their counterparts who take A levels, but will be paid less per hour, research has found.
Universities should lower their entry tariff requirements for students born in August to reflect the lower achievement levels of children born in the summer, a new study suggests.
Reformed graduate rock band provokes reflections on how much has changed since the heyday of ‘Spontaneous Emissions’
Podcast Powered By PodbeanDownload the podcastUS sororities, a new regional alliance of UK universities, and the university visiting habits of Vince Cable and David Willetts are up for discussion on...
Nobel Peace Prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi has called on British universities to help remedy the suppression of Burmese universities by the nation’s former military regime
Shahidha Bari traces the development of Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair, who, at 97, gets her first major museum exhibition