The project manager who oversaw a huge overhaul of London Metropolitan University’s undergraduate teaching has said that universities need to be careful not to raise false hopes when they promise to...
Unions representing higher education staff are asking for a pay rise in 2013-14 that is likely to be worth more than 3 per cent.
By Ry Rivard, for Inside Higher Ed
Sir Alan Langlands is to leave his job as chief executive of England’s funding council to become vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds, where he has been welcomed as a “stellar figure” in higher...
The University of Oxford is set to review its policy on postgraduate admissions after a college reached a settlement with an applicant who claimed it discriminated against poorer students.
Regent’s College will become the latest private provider to gain university status, with the charitable institution hoping to boost its international prospects and join Universities UK as a result.
Teams from six universities will make up the UK’s second cyber security research institute, it has been announced.
All threatened strike action at the University of Birmingham has been called off after the University and College Union reached an agreement with the institution’s management over compulsory...
Universities should teach undergraduates how to start up companies, the prime minister’s enterprise advisor has said.
Students and academics need to be much more involved in the management and improvement of universities if the future of higher education is to be safeguarded.
Tim McInnis, the former director of the alumni relations office at Durham University, has left the institution to join a cancer charity.
Academics have been making their voice heard on Twitter after education secretary Michael Gove mocked 100 university professors who had criticised his plans to reform the national curriculum.
Three-quarters of Russell Group universities are failing to meet benchmarks on numbers of state school pupils, according to new figures.
Michael Gove has reiterated his desire to move initial teacher training towards school-led providers by pledging an extra £10 million for schools to train the next generation of teachers.
Outspoken MP George Galloway has tabled an early day motion calling for a University of Oxford college to reinstate a library invigilator who was sacked for failing to stop students film an internet...