Vince Cable, the business secretary, has admitted that the government will spend less on higher education as a result of this year's shortfall in student numbers, caused partly by the government's own AAB "experiment".
The University of Bath has left the 1994 Group of small research-intensive universities with its vice-chancellor saying continued membership of the organisation "does not reflect the type of university we are".
The vice-chancellor of Cranfield University, Sir John O'Reilly, will become director general of knowledge and innovation at the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills from early February next year, it has been announced.
A panel of academics chaired by former University Challenge quizmaster Bamber Gascoigne faced a barrage of questions from the public ranging from "Why does it matter how it all began?" and "Does the rise of women mean the end of men?" to whether they preferred 51勛圖land or Downton Abbey.
Undergraduate numbers have dropped at around a third of the institutions in the Russell Group of research-intensive universities, its director general has said.
Universities' current charitable model of governance will prevent them from taking advantage of the higher education boom in emerging economies, David Willetts has argued.
One of the classic images of the frozen North, Sir Edwin Landseer's Man Proposes, God Disposes was first exhibited in 1864 and praised for its "tragic grandeur".
Better marketing, a stronger presence within core curricula and even "Bumps and Babies" groups were among the "future strategies for university and college libraries" explored last week at a conference in London.
The University of Texas system plans to offer degree credits for courses completed through the edX online-learning platform and charge for such courses - offering a potential new direction in the delivery of massive open online courses (Moocs).
Details of how much money individual universities spend on research and teaching could be made public under proposals designed to create transparency in institutions' reporting of the costs of their activities.
The government has removed permission for private Guildhall College to access to the publicly-funded student loans system, after complaints from its students.
There is a "strong case" for a limited state-backed student loan scheme to be introduced for master's degree students, the Higher Education Commission has concluded.
More than 40 scientific organisations, including 15 universities, have pledged to be more open about the animal research they carry out in the wake of an opinion poll indicating declining public support for the use of animals in research.
Students should be able to transfer from less selective universities to research intensive institutions as "common practice", according to Lord Rees, the Astronomer Royal.
The governments education policies spread ignorance, not privilege, the general secretary of the University and College Union will tell an anti-austerity demonstration today.
Amidst warp drives, transporters and phasers there is one Star Trek technology that is close to becoming real and organisers of the US-based X prize want UK researchers to make it happen.
