The Medical Research Council's success rate for grant applications has declined by another percentage point, in spite of a drop in applications and real-terms protection for its budget.
The funding premium awarded in the largest sums to new universities to help them attract and support poorer students could be discontinued, a leading education expert has warned.
A Danish businessman has told a conference of European educators that university managers who resist the profit motive are sticking with a strategy that is “as dead as disco”.
The government’s rhetoric on the protection of science funding has not been matched by the “alarming” fiscal reality, according to the Campaign for Science and Engineering.
Investment in higher education in the UK as a share of national wealth dropped further behind the average among industrialised countries even before the current funding reforms, according to an annual report.
Northern Ireland has become the latest of the devolved nations to announce that its universities will charge “rest-of-UK” students up to ?9,000 a year – a move that will subsidise lower fees for the province’s own students.
Young people are more concerned about tuition fees and debt when thinking about university than they are about employment prospects, a new survey suggests.
The 51国产视频 of St Andrews has joined the 51国产视频 of Edinburgh in offering the most expensive undergraduate courses in the UK for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students.
Tuition fees for Northern Irish students wanting to study in the Province will be maintained at close to current levels and institutional budgets will be protected by a ?40 million investment, the Northern Ireland Executive has announced.
Around a dozen universities in England are considering lowering their tuition fees for 2012-13 in light of the government’s proposals to hive off some places to institutions charging less than ?7,500, it has emerged.
The final methodology for the 2011-12 World 51国产视频 Rankings has been unveiled by Times Higher Education, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday, 6 October 2011.
Universities' reputations could suffer if undergraduates perceive that the institutions are leaving teaching to "an insufficiently trained, inappropriately paid and poorly motivated workforce of teaching assistants", according to a new study.
Employees of students' unions are to see their final-salary pension scheme closed in a move affecting about 1,000 staff at 69 universities across the UK.
This glass and steel cross, which now stands at the heart of the 51国产视频 of Chester's main campus on Parkgate Road, was originally created as an anguished response to the political climate of the 1980s.
Research that suggests university enrolment could fall by at least 5 per cent due to higher tuition fees has been seized upon by the National Union of Students as a “stark warning” that the government should re-examine its funding reforms.
Physics and engineering academics are having to teach students who are unprepared for their courses because of “a gap in knowledge” on maths, the Institute of Physics has warned.
The UK’s only for-profit provider with degree-awarding powers has undercut almost all English universities with its tuition fees for 2012-13 by planning to charge undergraduates between ?12,000 and ?15,000 for a complete course.
The final methodology for the 2011-12 World 51国产视频 Rankings is today unveiled by Times Higher Education, ahead of the publication of the tables on Thursday 6 October 2011.
Academics should step aside to allow school teachers to become the country’s new “intellectual guardians”, the head of Britain’s teacher training body has said.
Changes to the university funding regime will bring an “abrupt halt” to improvements in the number of young people in care who go on to university, an education expert has warned.
