England may have gone "a bit over the top" in transferring the cost of university education from the state to the graduate, the coordinator of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's skills strategy has said.
Data showing that Australian universities have continued to increase their revenue from overseas fees despite recent falls in applications have prompted a debate over rising charges.
The government is set to push ahead with plans to create a new generation of universities by lowering the qualifying threshold for university title from 4,000 to 1,000 students.
Coalition government ministers have written to England鈥檚 funding council and the Office for Fair Access asking them to develop a 鈥渟hared strategy鈥 on helping students from disadvantaged backgrounds.
One of the longest-serving vice-chancellors in the UK higher education sector has announced he will retire next year to pursue activities including a master鈥檚 degree in philosophy.
Private school pupils are three times more likely than their state-educated peers to reach the high-achieving AAB grade threshold at A level that affords entry to 鈥渢he most selective universities鈥, Nick Clegg has warned.
Confidence in the graduate jobs market has dipped among final-year students and salary expectations have stagnated as universities prepare to introduce fees of up to 拢9,000 a year in the autumn.
Universities UK is appealing to the prime minister to remove overseas students from the net migration count, ahead of a possible backlash against the sector arising from the next batch of immigration figures.
These items form part of remarkable treasure trove found in the brickwork of an old fireplace last month when two maintenance workers were repairing the Brigham Hall dormitory at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts.
Students and academics have condemned the University of Salford鈥檚 plans to shut down its Italian department, warning of damage to British graduate skills in a globalised economy.
The University of Abertay Dundee has appointed a new vice-chancellor and principal almost a year after the previous head of the institution left amid a row over his retirement.
The head of a new protest group campaigning for reform of the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council has called for its chief executive, David Delpy, to take action or step down
Including students in net migration statistics creates a 鈥減erverse incentive鈥 for the government to drive down foreign student numbers even though this does relatively little to cut long-term immigration, a report has argued.
Researchers into complementary and alternative medicine are disregarding 鈥渂asic rules of publication ethics鈥 by routinely failing to report the potentially serious side effects of treatments, an academic has claimed.
Universities will be able to bid for up to 拢35 million in matched public funding for major research capital projects as part of a new programme, the government has announced.
A university has decided against a controversial proposal to establish a chair in a brand of alternative medicine that advocates mistletoe as a cure for cancer.
