Some of the leading access universities in England are braced for major cuts after this year's funding allocations, signalling the increasingly cut-throat market for extra student places....
'The next few years will be momentous for higher education. The Russell Group will have a significant role in shaping events, a role that we intend to play to the full' As the first executive...
John Beringer , pro vice-chancellor of Bristol University, has been invited by the prime minister to become a member of the Council for Science and Technology. David Balfour , professor in...
Education secretary Charles Clarke's desire for a more market-driven higher education system looks set to claim two prestigious departments at the University of East Anglia, which lies in his...
The judiciary and police are ill-prepared to deal with the rise in the number of honour crimes perpetrated in some migrant communities, an expert has warned. Usha Sood, senior law lecturer at...
A growing anti-science culture in the UK threatens to undermine attempts to make the country a world leader in research, scientists and government ministers agreed this week. At a much-publicised...
Swansea University students who put the institution up for sale on eBay were stunned when bids broke all records, reaching nearly $100 million (£55 million) in one day. Student union welfare and...
Stars and strips How the number 322 and a call to appear naked link Yale alumni George W. Bush and John Kerry Also Dubya's distortions : How the Bush administration is skewing academic research; John...
It's not just the state that now pays for post-school education. Tony Tysome reports. A national debate should be held on what can be done to help people save for further and higher education in the...
The music of the spheres is being heard for the first time thanks to a unique collaboration between an astronomer and a composer. Every note in the five-minute composition is "played" by an...
School-leavers could find it harder to get into UK universities because of competition from thousands of candidates from the new European Union member states, according to an independent think-tank....
Stability and consolidation were the watchwords this week as the Higher Education Funding Council for England set out how much money it will distribute to universities for teaching and research in...
Animal rights activists are to target Oxford University, raising fresh fears that academics will become the primary focus of extremists. Stop Primate Experiments at Cambridge, a coalition of animal...
Ministers this week conceded that MPs needed extra time to scrutinise the HE bill. Paul Hill witnessed the latest Commons deliberations. The Tories smelt a rat, Labour smelt tripe and one backbencher...
Fears are growing that at least one major UK-based company is poised to pull the plug on the millions it pours into university research, threatening chancellor Gordon Brown's vision for a modern hi-...