Sir Jim Ratcliffe, the chemicals tycoon and one of the outspoken billionaire backers of Brexit, has turned his back on the UK with plans to build his new versio

Below is a transcript of an address from the Chancellor of the University of Oxford, Lord Patten of Barnes, at the Admission Ceremony of the University's 273rd Vice-Chancellor Professor Irene Tracey

‘Ground-up’ system for estimating academic workloads suggests universities routinely set them too high

University becomes the latest to restructure due to funding crisis in English higher education

Speaking at a fringe event at the Tory conference, the Home Secretary pledged to take a 'more discerning' approach to the number of student visas being issued.

Professionalising university teaching and changing incentive structures are the first steps, says Steven Mintz

Universities have been warned over degree class inflation as an analysis reveals that seven in ten students who get less than DDD grades at A-level go on to graduate with top degrees.

New head of Science Europe says he hopes for experiments with grant lottery system and even a basic income for researchers

Prime minister said to be ‘sceptical’ about value of research programme and cost of UK participation

Introduction of lecture capture also leads to significant drop in attainment, King’s College London study finds

Home Secretary Sulla Braverman (pictured) wants to reduce the numbers of international students who can apply for a graduate visa, which allows students to remain in the UK for two years.

Many EU academics also now likely to choose ‘simpler option’ of staying in bloc even after trade agreement, expert warns 

Chief executive Dame Ottoline Leyser says existing ban on sharing project responsibilities does not help science

Home Office decision to decline a visa for postgraduate researcher’s 22-month-old baby sparks anguish at laboratory ‘struggling’ to recruit

Sex-worker victims were seen as dispensible, survivors’ accounts ignored, and women blamed for drinking or going out alone

Teaching students the skills that enable them to be change makers in their industries should be the real goal, says Natalie Brett 

Nature - The new president has the opportunity to reverse four years of anti-science policies — but he also inherits a nation divided.

Over 1,000 professors will get €30,000 a year to spend as they please as a remedy to the low success rates of national and international competitions

New paper says both teaching-intensive and research-intensive universities need to re-examine the way they assess students