Just six months after Lord Browne鈥檚 landmark review of higher education, and amid growing concern about the cost of the new tuition fee system, the coalition government has radically changed its proposals for university funding.
New universities in Wales are to bear the brunt of next year's funding cuts as the Welsh funding council protects high-quality research at the expense of teaching.
Foreign governments are warning their students and academics to avoid the UK in the wake of funding cuts and new visa regulations, universities have been told.
University governance must be overhauled to address the problem of "dispassionate" independent board members who protect their own interests at times of crisis rather than those of the institutions they serve, according to a new study.
Any attempt by the government to siphon off a percentage of student places and reallocate them to universities offering the lowest fees would drive down quality and lead to larger class sizes, a vice-chancellor has told a cross-party group of MPs.
The Arts and Humanities Research Council has strongly denied that it has been pressurised into funding research on the Conservative Party鈥檚 鈥淏ig Society鈥 agenda.
Two years ago, Leeds Metropolitan University was the only higher education institution in England offering a substantial discount on tuition fees, charging just 拢2,000 a year.
A branch of the US Republican Party has been accused of attacking academic freedom by using freedom of information laws to access emails sent by a University of Wisconsin-Madison academic who criticised its policies.
Members of higher education unions will take to London鈥檚 streets to join a day of protest against government cuts to public services, while students plan to inject some 鈥渞adical spirit鈥 via a feeder march.
The University and College Union has warned that it will step up industrial action for "maximum impact" on examinations and assessment if the employers do not return to the negotiating table on pensions.
Teesside University will lose almost a fifth of its teaching money in 2011-12 compared with its original grant allocation for this year after a 拢6.6 million clawback by the funding council, figures have shown.
This sculpture of a kangaroo, located incongruously near the entrance of the library at Stockholm University, is the work of Torsten Renqvist (1924-2007).
The new head of the Student Loans Company is feeling "quietly confident" about the future despite the fiasco that left tens of thousands of undergraduates without funds.
The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales could be scrapped and replaced by a new body holding full powers to govern Welsh universities under proposals welcomed by Leighton Andrews, Wales鈥 education minister.