While elite universities in the US and Europe may benefit financially from the emergence of online courses, smaller institutions and for-profit education companies could find themselves squeezed out...
BIOTECHNOLOGY AND BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCILResponsive Mode Grant AwardsValues are the amounts requested. Awarded amounts may differ• Award winner: Robert Jackson• Institution: University...
If universities aren't spared the local council levy on new development, their communities will suffer, warns John Cater
As party conference season begins, Adam Corner asks what it means for a discipline if its practitioners are overwhelmingly left wing
Joining Greek colleagues in Athens in a forlorn protest against cuts to the academy prompts Dennis Smith to wonder who may be next
But could admissions instability lead to further numbers deregulation? John Morgan reports
The government has moved towards granting for-profit higher education firms VAT advantages to put them on "the same footing" as universities - although some firms have already gained that advantage...
Two potential destination colleges named in recent watchdog reports. John Morgan writes
Minister frustrated by lack of 'lively debate' about issue key to sector's future. Paul Jump reports
The decision to limit an additional £6 million of Higher Education Innovation Fund cash to just 12 institutions has angered some sector leaders.Plans were announced on 13 September to allocate the...
Metrics maketh the sector more stratified, NYU leader warns. Elizabeth Gibney reports from Paris
European conference warned of the growing threat posed by bogus students. Jack Grove reports
Graduate schools should publish data about their former students' careers to inform doctoral candidates about their job prospects.
Internationalisation stymied by the Continent's fixed-term leadership. Jack Grove reports
Following the discovery from a recent staff survey that 35 per cent of Poppleton academics had never seen our current vice-chancellor, we learn of a new university initiative to increase his...