International students coming to the UK could have to pay at least 瞿200 a year to use the National Health Service under plans unveiled by the government.
Dramatic falls in part-time and mature student numbers must be tackled to ensure people from poorer families have the chance to go to university, access head Les Ebdon has warned.
The Cardiff governments policy of subsidising Welsh student fees when they study elsewhere in the UK has been attacked by the Welsh Conservatives, who say it is siphoning money to English universities.
A Tweet sent by a University of New Mexico psychologist, which suggested that obese people do not have the willpower to complete a PhD, was not, as its author had claimed, part of a research project, the institution has concluded.
A paucity of suitable sites, a stand-offish attitude and a lack of coordinated, long-term planning are all to blame for the scarcity of large international scientific facilities on UK soil, the Lords Science and Technology committee has been told.
The government has announced a fund worth up to 瞿125 million to support disadvantaged students into further study, as a new report reveals postgraduate numbers fell last year.
A deal to bring together early-career researchers from the UK and Kazakhstan to explore potential joint projects has been struck as part of the prime ministers visit to the central Asian state.
Some students at the University of Liverpool have been sent the wrong degree results, after the Russell Group institution experienced a technical problem
Glasgow Caledonian University has said it is happy that the PhD thesis of Irans new president elect is properly referenced and is not undertaking a formal academic investigation
The number of graduate vacancies at leading employers is now at its highest level since the onset of the financial crisis in 2008, boosted by openings in the public sector, a survey has found.
The US Senate has approved an immigration reform bill that could grant students and graduates who were brought into the country illegally as children the right to citizenship.
A chemistry professor whose lessons have been viewed on YouTube by thousands of students across the world is one of this years winners of the Higher Education Academys National Teaching Fellowships.
The desk and spectacles pictured belonged to Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859), the German polymath whose travels in Latin America led to the first serious scientific account of the continent
Fifteen per cent of the university spin-offs incorporated in 2000, 2001 and 2002 have so far made a successful exit by way of trade sales or flotations on the stock exchange, data show
Protection for science and research spending will be maintained in 2015-16 while the capital budget will be increased to 瞿1.1 billion, the chancellor George Osborne announced today.
The National Scholarship Programme is to be cut by 瞿100 million and made postgraduate-only, as part of savings announced in the coalitions spending round.
The capital budget for science will be increased to 瞿1.1 billion in 2015-16 and maintained in real terms until the end of the decade, the chancellor George Osborne has announced.
Science should be able to bid against other spending areas such as road-building for capital investment, the chief executive of the Science and Technology Facilities Council has argued.
Ratings agency Standard & Poors has predicted that the new higher education funding regime will harm the creditworthiness of some UK universities, widening the gap between the strongest and weakest.
