Wales’ education minister is to consult on the dissolution of Cardiff Metropolitan University despite the institution’s governing body's rejection of his plans to merge it with two other universities.
Research funded through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 programme from 2014 will have to be published through either the “gold” or “green” open-access routes, it has been confirmed.
The University of Edinburgh has joined major US universities including the California Institute of Technology in offering its online courses for free.
By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
The UK research councils have announced that they will provide block grants to help organisations cover the cost of open-access article fees after the government confirmed that it wants to see all...
By 2020, more than four in 10 young graduates in countries that are members of either the G20 or the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development will be Indian or Chinese, according to a...
Lecturers are set to protest at the University of East London next week to mark a decision by union members to strike this autumn.
The business secretary has said he “accepts” that changes to the student visa system have damaged perceptions of the UK overseas and called for a “liberal attitude to immigration”.
The governor who represents academic staff at Cardiff Metropolitan University voted for the institution to merge in a crucial ballot on independence, it has emerged.
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