Almost all Russell Group universities have failed to reach independently set levels for admitting pupils from state schools and poorer backgrounds, new figures show.
The Medical Research Council has signed a memorandum of understanding with Japan's main science funding body to pool resources on projects of "mutual strategic importance".
This 19th-century stuffed cyclopic piglet and plaster cast of a rattlesnake - brought to Scotland by Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show in 1904 - are among the strange and sometimes shocking natural history treasures of the Bell Pettigrew Museum at the University of St Andrews.
The Wellcome Trust has reacted to Research Councils UK's beefed-up open-access proposals by indicating that it will get "much tougher" on compliance with its own mandate.
This glass brain and spinal column, which pulsates electromagnetic light and reacts to human contact, is part of an exhibition currently taking place at the National Glass Centre in Sunderland.
Failure to protect teaching quality at low-cost higher education providers could threaten the health of the entire university sector, the former president of Universities UK has warned.
Universities have once again seen a rise in philanthropic donations, but there are warnings that a cap on tax relief announced in last week鈥檚 Budget could stop this progress 鈥渄ead in its tracks鈥.
The National Audit Office has called for tougher action against overseas students who are breaking visa rules, prompting Universities UK to warn that 鈥渓egitimate concerns about immigration鈥 should not be allowed to cause 鈥渋rreversible damage鈥 to the nation鈥檚 higher education export industry.
Higher fees for UK master鈥檚 courses are deterring students from continuing their studies and the deterrent is strongest for those from poorer backgrounds, according to a new study.
Four learned societies have written to the prime minister to protest against plans to reduce the resources of the Lords Science and Technology Committee.
Tensions between publishers and funding bodies over open access to research papers have flared up again after the Publishers Association accused Research Councils UK of riding roughshod over publishers' concerns in a new draft policy on open access.
An English university has become the first UK higher education institution known to have had its licence for sponsoring international students suspended since rules were toughened.
Developing countries wanting to improve their universities should emulate the success of Pakistan in retaining top academics by paying them hefty salaries, according to the country's former science minister.
This stained-glass triptych of saints, including St Agnes and St Hilda, has been restored to its original splendour in the former chapel of what is now the University of Chichester.
Almost one-quarter of students in the UK receive less lecture time than they thought they would get before they started university, a new report has revealed.
Removing international students from official immigration figures would reduce government statistics to 鈥渘onsense鈥, the head of a migration pressure group has claimed.
The University of Warwick and Queen Mary, University of London, could share lecturers as part of a new programme of research and outreach collaboration.
Students at Cardiff Metropolitan University have voted against plans to merge the institution with the University of Wales, Newport and the University of Glamorgan.
The need for further 鈥渦niversity-led research鈥 to track the contribution of design to UK businesses and the economy came up for debate at a forum organised by the Design Council last week.
A group of scientists involved in public discussions about nuclear power have written an open letter to David Willetts protesting about the European commissioner for energy鈥檚 鈥渂izarre鈥 talk of an apocalypse in relation to last year鈥檚 Fukushima disaster.
