Partly-funded by the UK Research Partnership Investment Fund, the University of Dundee’s Discovery Centre is “tearing down disciplinary walls” to achieve translational and interdisciplinary research. More...

Developed to change the lives of young people in some of the most disadvantaged areas of England, the National Collaborative Outreach Programme is nine months old. So what does success look like for the programme and how have things been going. More...

In August 2017, HEFCE circulated a UK-wide survey on the delivery of funders’ open access policies.
The survey, which is open until 22 September 2017, aims to gather further information on the sector’s progress towards complying with funders’ open access (OA) policies, and on the tools higher education institutions (HEIs) are using. More...

New technologies have triggered many changes in the scholarly communication sector; they have also fundamentally changed the way we learn, teach and research. More...

The level of senior pay in higher education institutions is clearly of interest to students and the general public. The topic is currently much in debate, and has led some to ask how regulation works in the sector. More...

Today’s young people have a world of opportunities before them, which is great, but also daunting. With so many options, it can be difficult to make sense of them and choose the most fitting. More...

Over the last six years the number of students who are the first generation in their (immediate) family to attend university has grown.
As part of the UCAS application process, applicants are asked if any of their parents or guardians have any higher education (HE) qualifications. HEFCE receives this data through HESA, but until now we have not produced any analysis on this as a large proportion of applicants did not answer the question. More...