US president Barack Obamas announcement that $100 million (瞿66 million) is to be invested in an initiative to map the human brain has been welcomed by the countrys higher education institutions.
Graduates with science degrees are less likely to be out of work during a recession than those who studied humanities, according to new research on more than 6,000 young Americans.
Many students will defend to the death the need for traditional campus-based lectures, and will only delve into the world of free online educational resources if instructed to by their teachers, a conference has heard.
Recent comments about initial teacher training made by education secretary Michael Gove and Sir Michael Wilshaw, the chief inspector of schools, constitute a concerted political attack on universities that has no basis in evidence.
The University of Sussex is still waiting to see if it will be able to evict protesters from an occupation on the campus after a decision at the High Court was adjourned.
These are just two of the plant samples, now held by the Museum of Evolution at Uppsala University in Sweden, that Carl Peter Thunberg brought back from his pioneering expedition to Japan in 1775.
The University Alliance mission group has gained another new member from Million+ while also announcing it is signing a partnership with its Australian counterpart.
A Jewish academic who claimed the UCUs policy on Palestine constituted harassment has been rebuked by an employment tribunal for misusing the legal process
The University of Sussex has been granted an injunction that it says will pave the way towards ending the seven-week occupation of its Bramber House conference centre.
Students from ethnic minorities are less likely to gain places at top universities than white pupils with the same A-level grades, a new study has claimed.
The UK Border Agency is to be split in two, between a visa body and a law enforcement body, and brought back under the control of 51勛圖 Office ministers.
The project manager who oversaw a huge overhaul of London Metropolitan Universitys undergraduate teaching has said that universities need to be careful not to raise false hopes when they promise to consult on major decisions.
Sir Alan Langlands is to leave his job as chief executive of Englands funding council to become vice-chancellor of the University of Leeds, where he has been welcomed as a stellar figure in higher education.
The University of Oxford is set to review its policy on postgraduate admissions after a college reached a settlement with an applicant who claimed it discriminated against poorer students.
Regents College will become the latest private provider to gain university status, with the charitable institution hoping to boost its international prospects and join Universities UK as a result.
All threatened strike action at the University of Birmingham has been called off after the University and College Union reached an agreement with the institutions management over compulsory redundancies and performance management.
Students and academics need to be much more involved in the management and improvement of universities if the future of higher education is to be safeguarded.
Academics have been making their voice heard on Twitter after education secretary Michael Gove mocked 100 university professors who had criticised his plans to reform the national curriculum.
Michael Gove has reiterated his desire to move initial teacher training towards school-led providers by pledging an extra 瞿10 million for schools to train the next generation of teachers.
Outspoken MP George Galloway has tabled an early day motion calling for a University of Oxford college to reinstate a library invigilator who was sacked for failing to stop students film an internet dance video in her library.
UK women made up 40 per cent of A-level maths students in 2011 but just 6 per cent of professors in the subject, data collated for the London Mathematical Society show
