Utopianism is in a bad way. Stalin’s Soviet Union, Hitler’s Germany and Pol Pot’s Kampuchea are regularly disinterred as terrifying examples of humanity’s attempts to actualise ideal societies, with...
The University of Oxford has received a record £75 million donation that will be used to support disadvantaged undergraduates.
The immigration minister has told a cross-party group of MPs that any reports suggesting that the government will remove international students from net migration figures are not true.
The number of animals used in scientific research in the UK rose by 2 per cent last year, figures from the Home Office show.
An academic psychologist has joined forces with a former Bond girl and her film director husband to create a television documentary about the after-effects of brain injury.
The European Union will tomorrow launch a call for bids for €8.1 billion (£6.4 billion) in research funding as part of the final year of its Framework 7 programme.
University applications by English students have dropped by 10 per cent, according to the latest figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service.
By Steve Kolowich for Inside Higher Ed
The government has announced plans to give border staff new powers to refuse international students a visa as part of a programme of targeted interviews for applicants.
Students in Cornwall could receive up to £3,000 each from their county council to support their university studies in a first for local authorities under current funding arrangements.
Some post-1992 universities have outperformed traditional institutions in the latest set of graduate-destination statistics.
A former journal editor has lost his libel claim against the journal Nature over an article reporting allegations that he had abused his position to publish numerous self-authored papers without...
The universities and science minister has said that a higher education bill will be needed to allow "dissolution" for post-1992 universities and to give new powers to the Office for Fair Access.
Principles, priorities, practicalities: fine things all, but easier to discuss separately than together. Most of us want to protect the environment, for example. But which bits, and how best to do it...
So the past may not be dead, and may not even be past; but we do usually reach a point where we and it can leave each other alone. We are interested in (say) the history of the Roman Empire, but for...