Fewer than 45 per cent of continuing overseas students at London Metropolitan University have committed to stay with the troubled institution, given the choice of staying or transferring elsewhere.
The University of Cambridge has become the latest higher education institution to raise private finance for building projects, announcing the issue of a £350 million bond.
University of Oxford vice-chancellor Andrew Hamilton has announced plans to increase the institution's fundraising target from £1.25 billion to £3 billion, while issuing a warning that philanthropy should be no replacement for public funding.
The University of Cambridge has taken a step closer to borrowing millions of pounds on the bond markets after US ratings agency Moody's gave it an AAA credit rating.
A private for-profit college has been prevented from taking on international students from London Metropolitan University because of concerns over quality.
International students at London Metropolitan University will be refunded any higher tuition fee charges as well as the extra cost of travel and accommodation if they move elsewhere to study, it has been announced.
A University of Oxford college has created a full-time academic post dedicated to encouraging bright state-school students to apply to competitive universities.
International students at London Metropolitan University could be given a year to continue their course if the institution is given a chance to challenge its recent student visa ban.
London Metropolitan University is to take legal action to challenge the revocation of its licence to admit international students, saying it has a duty to the higher education sector to challenge the UK Border Agency's decision.
A translation error by Chinese news agencies has dragged another higher education institution into the London Metropolitan University visa controversy.
The University of East London has set up a hotline for London Metropolitan University students, in a bid to attract those facing deportation in the wake of the visa scandal.
The decision to strip London Metropolitan University of its licence to recruit overseas students has implications “for the whole UK sector”, according to the vice-president of Universities UK.
London Metropolitan University is to lose its licence to teach foreign students, it has been reported, becoming the first UK university to be stripped of its Highly Trusted Sponsor status by the UK Border Agency.
Burmese pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Oxford during a ceremony at the institution’s Sheldonian Theatre.
Two Islamic societies at London Metropolitan University have launched a scathing attack on “undemocratic, ill devised and misleading remarks” by the vice-chancellor, who proposed banning alcohol from parts of the campus in case it offended Muslims.
The University and College Union has called on the governors of London Metropolitan University to “intervene and re-direct” the institution after a survey returned a 91 per cent vote of no confidence in the vice-chancellor.
The president of London Metropolitan University students’ union has called for the vice-chancellor to apologise after he suggested the sale of alcohol should be banned from parts of the campus because some Muslim students believed drinking was “immoral”.
The vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University has defended his decision to cut the number of courses at his institution by two-thirds, and set out lessons for other universities that embark on similar overhauls.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has said academics at the institution have been left “profoundly saddened and shocked” by the death of a professor of astrophysics.
The head of outreach programmes at the University of Cambridge has said that students at the institution are "appreciably better" than they were 20 years ago.
Former Labour science minister Lord Sainsbury of Turville has been elected chancellor of the University of Cambridge after receiving more than half the votes in a ballot of members of the institution’s senate.
The vice-chancellor of the University of Oxford has called for "serious consideration" to be given to a proposal for a government-backed loan for taught postgraduate students.
The government has come in for fierce criticism from the universities of Cambridge and Oxford in strongly-worded submissions to the White Paper consultation.
A vote by the University of Cambridge’s governing “parliament” over whether to back a motion of no confidence in universities minister David Willetts has ended in a dead heat.
The University of Cambridge has set up its own small grants scheme for research in the arts, humanities and social sciences following the decision by two bodies to end similar programmes at the national level.
A campaign for a nationwide vote of “no confidence” in the government’s higher education reforms has been launched by a group of academics and students at the University of Oxford.
The University of Cambridge increased its proportional intake from state schools and colleges last year, but only 16 of all successful UK applicants were black.
The University of Oxford has confirmed that it plans to charge tuition fees of £9,000 a year from 2012-13, but it has also announced a package of support for poor students.
Students at the University of Cambridge have reacted with anger after the vice-chancellor blocked an attempt by about 150 academics to change the terms of a vote over whether to allow the institution to set tuition fees at £9,000 a year.
