Deputy prime minister Nick Clegg has described the coalition government’s decision to increase university tuition fees – which went against pledges he made before the election – as “heart-wrenching”...
A decision to charge a group of Italian seismologists and officials with manslaughter for failing to predict an earthquake that killed over 300 people “defies belief”, according to a UK expert in the...
Students should be able to view simple pie-charts showing how their university spends its tuition fee income, David Willetts has said.
Plans for students to apply to university after receiving their A-level results have been challenged as the consultation on the higher education White Paper draws to a close.
A “narrow, Oxbridge-obsessed” approach to higher education reform will thwart attempts to increase social mobility, according to a new report by a group of new universities.
Delegates at the Liberal Democrat party conference have supported a motion asking the government to look again at its proposals for the tuition fee loans given to part-time students.
By Steve Kolowich, for Inside Higher Ed
Only 4 per cent of international students use social media to select a foreign university, according to a worldwide survey of undergraduates.
Universities have been warned not to assume that “digital native” students will embrace all e-learning initiatives, or indeed prefer them to traditional forms of education.
A student who was arrested after downloading an al-Quaeda training manual from a US government website during research for his master’s degree has been paid £20,000 by Nottinghamshire Police in an...
University and College Union members have voted to hold “sustained industrial action” over cuts to their pensions, potentially disrupting exams and assessment at 67 universities.
United StatesCuts call for campus autonomyA US state university system should loosen its control over its 26 campuses, according to a report. The recommendations to the University of Wisconsin, given...
Poor students thrive at elite university and go on to earn more than their peers. Jack Grove reports
Around 450,000 students a year could study abroad on the Erasmus scheme after a funding increase by the European Union.
EU-funded project will develop affinities between institutions on two continents. Paul Jump reports