By John Morgan. Labour has been urged to say whether or not it would reintroduce caps on undergraduate numbers after unveiling its pledge to lower fees to £6,000. More...

By John Morgan. Ed Miliband has pledged that a Labour government would lower fees to £6,000 and raise maintenance grants by £400. More...

By John Morgan. The government must allow overseas students to stay in the UK after graduation to work as current rules are “jeopardising Britain’s position in the global race for talent”, MPs warn. More...

By Jack Grove. Some 22 per cent of professors – 4,415 out of 19,750 in total - were female in 2013-14 compared with just 15 per cent in 2003-04, according to a report by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. The report, titled Staff in Higher Education 2013-14, which was published on 26 February, also says 45 per cent of the UK’s 194,245 academic staff are women. More...

By Jack Grove. QAA report followed claims university had bent rules to allow students sponsored by Saudi government extra resits. More...

By Jack Grove. Students taking BTEC vocational qualifications are more than twice as likely to score top marks as they were seven years earlier, says a new study. More...

By Jack Grove. Allowing some universities to charge tuition fees above £9,000 a year would “create further inequity” in higher education funding, a university group has warned. More...

By Chris Parr. This is according to a survey by the education technology charity Jisc, which found that 27 per cent of students are now using social networking sites to get in touch with their tutors. More...

By Chris Parr. Following a review by the Home Office, which was undertaken after significant abuse involving English language tests was uncovered last year, only Trinity College London, which will offer testing in the UK, and Cambridge English Language Assessment, which will carry out tests both in the UK and overseas, have had tests approved. More...

By Chris Parr. The UK’s slight growth in international student recruitment over the past year overshadows a “global underperformance” when compared with other countries, an analysis has warned. More...