Amid the global, pre-Royal Wedding fervour, the English government made significant higher education reforms. First, on 1 January this year, it founded the Office for Students (OfS): a new university watchdog. Then, in mid-February, it announced the "biggest shake-up to higher ...

Employment at UK higher education institutions has fallen for the second consecutive year, new figures show. Data released by the Higher Education Statistics Agency show 3540 fewer staff were employed at publicly funded higher education institutions in 2011-12 compared with ...

With only about one in seven British universities led by a woman, Brunel’s VC says more needs to be done to fix the imbalance. Universities should change their promotion procedures to ensure that more women are considered for the sector's ...

In the UK ministers have introduced a system of “due diligence checks” for private higher education providers, it has emerged, as new figures show that the number of their students accessing state-funded loans has nearly doubled in a year. The ...

Universities UK is appealing to Prime Minister David Cameron to remove overseas students from the net immigration count, ahead of a possible backlash against the sector arising from the next batch of immigration figures. Eric Thomas, president of UUK, said ...

Almost all the UK’s Russell Group universities have failed to reach independently set levels for admitting pupils from state schools and poorer backgrounds, new figures show.  Of the 20 large research-intensive universities, only the universities of Sheffield and Liverpool reached ...

 Leading academics are calling for a campaign to make maths appeal to students and increase the number of teachers. By Jennifer Bennett. The federal government should appoint a national adviser in mathematics and set up a campaign to raise awareness ...