Two university lecturers branded as being part of “bad academia” by the education secretary have denounced his proposals for the new National Curriculum.
London mayor Boris Johnson has provoked a storm of criticism on Twitter after joking that women in Malaysia need to go to university to find a husband.
Ministers should focus more resources on explaining the student finance system to parents to avoid children being put off university by debt, a thinktank says
David Cameron has told David Willetts to build the UK’s offer to overseas students into a more persuasive “package” and urged him to attract more foreign universities to Britain.
Former home secretary David Blunkett is to become a visiting professor at the world’s first centre for the public understanding of politics, at the University of Sheffield.
International students coming to the UK could have to pay at least ?200 a year to use the National Health Service under plans unveiled by the government.
The government has announced a fund worth up to ?125 million to support disadvantaged students into further study, as a new report reveals postgraduate numbers fell last year.
Glasgow Caledonian University has said it is happy that the PhD thesis of Iran’s new president elect is properly referenced and is not undertaking a formal academic investigation
Protection for science and research spending will be maintained in 2015-16 while the capital budget will be increased to ?1.1 billion, the chancellor George Osborne announced today.
The National Scholarship Programme is to be cut by ?100 million and made postgraduate-only, as part of savings announced in the coalition’s spending round.
The capital budget for science will be increased to ?1.1 billion in 2015-16 and maintained in real terms until the end of the decade, the chancellor George Osborne has announced.
A decision by the House of Commons Education Committee to launch an inquiry into the government’s flagship policy for recruiting teachers has been welcomed by a higher education group.
The coalition’s aim to reduce net migration to the “tens of thousands” by 2015 makes more than half of international students in the UK feel less welcome, according to a new survey.
The Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has reached a settlement with the Treasury in negotiations over the 2015-16 spending review, reports suggest
Student protests brought down a government but failed to freeze tuition fees: what’s next for a province where universities remain high on the political agenda? Elizabeth Gibney reports from Montreal
Vince Cable, the business secretary, says he has “ruled out categorically” any rise in interest rates for graduates who took out student loans before 2012, while stressing that plans for a sale of student loans are ongoing
The government should urgently clarify its plans for the sale of the student loan book and reassure existing graduates that their repayments will not be raised, according to Labour’s shadow higher education minister.
