The University of Sheffield has nudged the University of Cambridge into third place in a list of the UK institutions earning the most research income from engineering, Higher Education Statistics Agency data show
Labour鈥檚 shadow business secretary is 鈥渙pen鈥 to setting a target to increase overseas students if the party returns to power as the major export industry has been 鈥渢aken hostage by the Home Office鈥 under the coalition.
When deciding where to publish their research, less than one in three academics see it as very important that a journal makes its articles available for free on the internet, a survey has found
The University of Salford has confirmed plans to close virtually all courses in modern languages, politics and contemporary history聽and shut down an entire school 鈥渢o secure the future of the university鈥 after seeing falling student demand.
Fewer British universities are hitting their overseas student recruitment targets this year in the wake of the government鈥檚 visa changes and Indian student numbers have again been hit, according to Universities UK.
A student Islamic society has apologised after a video was posted on its Facebook site claiming the killing of a soldier in Woolwich was a government hoax.
Moving medical education and research funding to the Department of Health would 鈥減ose a significant threat to the UK鈥檚 leading position鈥 in the fields, medical schools have warned George Osborne.