Vice-chancellors are calling for university funding levels to be maintained in order to plug the funding gap in teaching and infrastructure, a submission to the 2007 government spending review says.

It was eagerly but nervously awaited, and when Gordon Brown finally announced his planned overhaul to research funding in the UK, initial reaction was energetic and mixed.

There is still a "strong scientific case" for medical research using monkeys if it brings a significant potential benefit to human health, a major study on the issue concluded today.

Students are paying 23% more for university accommodation than three years ago as private suppliers offer more luxurious halls of residence, a new report reveals.

As Britain heads for its hottest year for two centuries, the Met Office global warming centre is having its budget slashed.

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U8, a group of students from diverse backgrounds and countries, launches its first hard-hitting consultation paper, which questions international development priorities. James Clarke and Lauren Newell explain.

Court battles would not resolve underlying issues of religious identity on university campuses and would only create division, a report from an independent thinktank has warned.

Britain risks "sleepwalking into a future shaped by extremists" unless academics make their voices more clearly heard, the country's most senior scientist warned today.

Universities have narrowed the social class gap in higher education, but urgent progress needs to be made to ensure gifted and talented youngsters do not slip through the cracks, the government warned today.

The Open University (OU) is selling gift vouchers in the hope that people can interest their hard-to-buy-for relatives in higher education.

They have been derided as Mickey Mouse degrees, with little academic merit. But qualifications such as surf science and technology are riding the crest of the economic wave, according to Universities UK.

Since when did universities start banning things?

Universities fear their future could be at risk because of government plans to let further education colleges offer their own "cut-price" degrees.

Anglican and Roman Catholic bishops warned student unions last night that they would be acting illegally if they banned Christian societies from campuses. They claimed Christian students were facing "considerable opposit

The closure of Reading's physics department is symptomatic of the way in which university vice-chancellors are allowed to operate, says Sally Hunt.

Universities have warned that health education is under threat if training budgets continue to be redirected to prop up the cash-strapped NHS.

The American education company Kaplan is planning to become the UK's first for-profit university, taking advantage of the government's relaxing of the law on degree-awarding powers.

Christians at a Devon university are threatening legal action against their students' union because of a row over equal opportunities.

Clearing, the annual scramble for a university place, should be scrapped and all potential students should be interviewed to ensure campuses are not used as a vehicle to spread religious hatred, a leading intelligence ex

Guidance issued to colleges and universities on combating extremism on campus is an improvement on previous leaked drafts but won’t solve all the problems and doesn’t give sufficient emphasis to improving campus relation

An umbrella group of mosques has welcomed today's guidance on how universities can tackle radicalism, but called for similar advice on how to prevent far-right extremism.

Universities, teaching staff, students and unions have warned advice urging them to target Islamic extremism on campuses could be counter-productive.

Britain faces a serious threat from Muslim extremists trying to recruit university students to terrorism, the higher education minister, Bill Rammell, will warn today.

Universities and colleges in England are being urged by the government to take seriously the problem of Islamic extremism on their campuses.