Cardiff University has said that it will review the support available to staff after it emerged that a lecturer who took his own life had complained about his heavy workload.

A UK university faces being forced to close its engineering teaching facility after the local council refused to grant retrospective planning permission and raised concerns about potential health risks to students.

Subscriptions to academic journals are costing leading UK universities almost £4 million a year on average, new figures reveal.

The professor at the heart of Australia’s university fundraising row has warned that hostile responses to bequests and donations risk undermining a sorely needed higher education revenue stream.

Inside Higher Ed analysis of employee data shows the agency has shed more than 500 workers -- 13 percent of its total staff -- since the start of the Trump administration. Former officials say that means employees are stretched thin.

A backlash in the Netherlands against teaching in English could spread to other countries, observers have predicted, after Dutch universities published a new strategy to deal with concerns over poor quality teaching and the alleged erosion of Dutch culture.

The Chinese government has announced plans to establish 100 “cultural heritage” centres at universities throughout the country that will run academic programmes and conduct scientific research in a bid to promote traditional Chinese culture.

Santa Ono’s social media activity raises questions about when a tweet is an official university statement

Parliamentary moves to outlaw Islamic face veils from classrooms have been strongly criticised by universities

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