A committee of MPs has called on the government to exclude overseas students from figures on net migration, warning that current policy risks "undermining a world class export market".
Visa compliance problems similar to those discovered at London Metropolitan University can be found at many other UK universities, a former 51勛圖 Office director has said.
Income from higher tuition fees will flow into universities' expanding marketing departments and budget surpluses rather than efforts to improve the student experience, a round-table discussion on the future of the sector has heard.
Introducing tuition fees of up to 瞿9,000 will not change the hierarchy of British universities because applicants generally pick an institution based on its prestige and history, a new study suggests.
They have never used an airline ticket, or had cause to consult a set of bound encyclopaedias, and regard point-and-shoot cameras as "soooooo last millennium".
London Metropolitan University is to take legal action to challenge the revocation of its licence to admit international students, saying it has a duty to the higher education sector to challenge the UK Border Agency's decision.
A translation error by Chinese news agencies has dragged another higher education institution into the London Metropolitan University visa controversy.
The University of East London has set up a hotline for London Metropolitan University students, in a bid to attract those facing deportation in the wake of the visa scandal.
The decision to strip London Metropolitan University of its licence to recruit overseas students has implications for the whole UK sector, according to the vice-president of Universities UK.
Some universities remain up to 600 students short of the number they need to recruit, amid suggestions that other institutions could be causing the shortfalls by "hanging on to" applicants who missed their grades.
Only a fifth of humanities and social science academics regard it as acceptable for academic publishers to make a profit that is not reinvested in their disciplines.
This hepatic trocar - a late 19th-century surgical instrument for the treatment of deep-seated liver abscesses - forms part of the collection at what is now the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Further education colleges are doing better than expected in attracting students from areas with low rates of higher education participation, but they also have higher-than-predicted dropout rates from some types of student.
The University of Glasgow has declined to publish the findings of its investigation into suspected research misconduct by a former professor of immunopharmacology.
The chief executive of the London School of Commerce (LSC), an associate college of Cardiff Metropolitan University, and his wife received a dividend of 瞿1 million in 2010, company accounts show.
London Metropolitan University is to lose its licence to teach foreign students, it has been reported, becoming the first UK university to be stripped of its Highly Trusted Sponsor status by the UK Border Agency.
Scottish universities have seen an increase of more than 26 per cent in the number of English students accepting places, according to the latest admissions data.
Canada should double the number of overseas students it attracts over the next 10 years as part of an internationalisation drive, a report by the Advisory Panel on Canada's International Education Strategy has said.
Nearly two in three UK universities are setting English language requirements below the recommended level for undergraduate students from outside the European Union, according to a 51勛圖 survey.
These pictures of women - one wearing a blue silk headdress, the other displaying her gold engagement jewellery and hennaed hands - were taken in rural Turkey in the 1980s.
The economic woes of public universities in the US present a prime opportunity for institutions with money to swoop in and snatch up staff. Jon Marcus reports
The performance of the "already over-stretched" Shared Services Centre for the UK research councils may suffer further when new bodies begin to use the centre in the coming months, it has been warned.
Universities should regularly inspect their collaborative partners to check on their financial stability and legal status, according to beefed-up Quality Assurance Agency requirements.
