Critical mass
Credit: Rebecca AttwoodThe wit and wisdom of the nation's students and lecturers was on display as protesters made history at a mass demonstration against cuts to university funding. Around 52,000...
Credit: Rebecca AttwoodThe wit and wisdom of the nation's students and lecturers was on display as protesters made history at a mass demonstration against cuts to university funding. Around 52,000...
Remember the economics student who attributed the run on Northern Rock to the "laxative enforcement policies" of the Financial Services Authority? Yes, it is that time of the year again. Times Higher...
The University of Exeter, which is led by Steve Smith, president of Universities UK, plans to set undergraduate tuition fees at £9,000 a year, the maximum allowed.
Thames Valley University has been granted permission by the Privy Council to change its name to the University of West London.Thames Valley said its announcement today highlighted “a strategic shift...
Students are being offered the chance to showcase their work to more than 1,000 movers and shakers at the sector's biggest awards ceremony.As part of our #loveHE campaign, Times Higher Education is...
The Prime Minister has promised “further increases” in university places this year.During a grilling by MPs on the House of Commons Liaison Committee this morning, Gordon Brown said that the...
Young people from poor backgrounds are more likely to see university study as "a means to an end" than to view it as an intrinsically worthwhile experience, a survey suggests.
The University of Greenwich has appointed a new vice-chancellor.
Some pharmacy students are getting less than half as much contact time as their peers at other UK universities, according to new figures.
Universities have warned that their finances will be tight during the credit crunch after the Government called on them to direct a £120 million VAT "windfall" towards helping workers who lose their...
Two experts on higher education law have warned that ministers' latest guidance to the access watchdog treads dangerously closely to interfering in a key area of academic freedom.
The president of the National Union of Students has announced that he is to stand down.
Universities "punch below their weight" in the political arena, according to the former head of the education select committee.At a Higher Education Policy Institute seminar at the House of Commons...
The proportion of students gaining good degrees is continuing to climb, according to official figures published today.
The University of Oxford has announced that it will start asking for A* grades at A level.