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.
Labour¡¯s shadow business secretary is ¡°open¡± to setting a target to increase overseas students if the party returns to power as the major export industry has been ¡°taken hostage by the Home Office¡± under the coalition.
Ministers should extend student loans to many more part-time students to remedy a ¡°crisis¡± in recruitment, a thinktank commission is set to recommend
Fewer British universities are hitting their overseas student recruitment targets this year in the wake of the government¡¯s visa changes and Indian student numbers have again been hit, according to Universities UK.
A student Islamic society has apologised after a video was posted on its Facebook site claiming the killing of a soldier in Woolwich was a government hoax.
Moving medical education and research funding to the Department of Health would ¡°pose a significant threat to the UK¡¯s leading position¡± in the fields, medical schools have warned George Osborne.
Vince Cable has said any sense of ¡°triumph¡± over new figures showing a decline in student immigration is ¡°absurd¡±, as he issued a strong defence of international student movement
Stay-at-home students who attend a local university should be eligible for cut-price tuition fees of ?5,000 a year, according to an influential commission of higher education experts
The University of Greenwich has launched an investigation into whether there has been extremism on its campuses after confirming that one of the suspects in the murder of a British soldier studied at the institution
