Lancaster University and the University of Liverpool could unite to form a "federal structure" akin to the University of California as other research-intensive universities explore collaborations to...
The Scottish Funding Council has stressed that "no decisions have been taken" after it emerged that it had asked the University of Dundee and the University of Abertay Dundee to consider merging.
Highly productive sector must be creative to keep up without new funds, study says. Paul Jump reports
Women in their forties and early fifties are the least satisfied among principal investigators with the way they are treated by their universities, a survey has found.
Twenty-three higher education institutions failed to hit their targets for attracting students from poor families, new figures show.
Audit results in 'limited confidence' verdict and call for some external oversight. Jack Grove writes
Publishers, scholars, funders must seek consensus, says the head of a new task force. John Gill reports
White Paper consultationNew Year, new universities billThe government is expected to issue an official response to separate consultations on the higher education White Paper and the regulation of the...
Consumer rights champion Which? has urged the government to scrap plans to penalise students who repay their tuition fee loans early.
Cuts and inflation eat away at spending review deal - and researchers' goodwill. John Gill writes
£30m campus in broadcast hub will boost industry links and graduate prospects, v-c tells John Morgan
A specialist journalistic organisation could allow academics to explain their work without distortion, suggests Peter Geoghegan
Freedom withers if a culture of 'therapeutic censorship' flourishes, argues Mary Warnock
Adept interlacing of three aspects of an influential Russian polymath impresses Yvonne Howell
Although the Bible is recognised globally as a fundamentally formative part of our culture, many people are increasingly unfamiliar with its stories. This refreshing rereading of some of the Bible's...