1994 Group leaks yet another member
The University of Reading is to leave the 1994 Group, becoming the eighth institution this year to depart from the group of small research-intensive universities.
The University of Reading is to leave the 1994 Group, becoming the eighth institution this year to depart from the group of small research-intensive universities.
The leader of Scottish Labour has attacked the free university tuition north of the border as being "essentially regressive".
A fifth Parliamentary committee has urged the government to remove international students from its net migration target, warning that failure to do so will damage UK universities.

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Race is higher education’s “dirty little secret” and more should be done to tackle the issue, a debate has heard.
International students make up 12 per cent of the total student population at UK universities, a sharp rise from 8 per cent eight years earlier.
A London university has announced it is to set up a specialist school for gifted young mathematicians as part of the government's plans to improve mathematics education in the state sector.
State school students in England with university-educated parents are five times more likely to reach higher education than those from "disadvantaged backgrounds", and are also more likely to go to...
A UK-based platform for massive open online courses (Moocs) to rival established providers in the US has been launched by The Open University.
University of SheffieldHow richly sums have decked theeFestive mathematics students have created a formula for the perfectly decorated Christmas tree. Members of the University of Sheffield's maths...
Principal buoyed by degree-awarding powers is sanguine about Moocs' threat, finds John Morgan
UUK tells sector to show willing on shared services as two schemes collapse. David Matthews reports
LEVERHULME TRUSTResearch project grantsSciences• Award winner: John Carr• Institution: University of Cambridge• Value: £241,544Payback: do plant viruses compensate their hosts by helping to attract...

One of the dominant international figures in the development of the theory of condensed matter has died.Balázs Gyorffy was born in Eger, Hungary, in 1938, but fled to Vienna in 1956 after realising...

Software and skilled interpretation help in analysing the mass of user-generated media content, scholar tells Matthew Reisz