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It looks like being a record year for university applications - probably over 700,000 this year as students race to beat the hike in tuition fees. Demand is particularly strong for practical courses like nursing, engineeri... More

The LSE is first elite university to charge lower than the maximum tuition fees. The LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science)  has decided to charge £8500 tuition fees from 2012/13. This is be... More

The government is to cut the number of university places for would-be student teachers by 10% in 2012. Canterbury Christ Church University will lose most - nearly 300 - followed by Liverpool John Moores Univeresity (1... More

A £1.5 million government advertising campaign to encourage sixth formers to go to university is misleading according to the National Union of Students (NUS). The campaign apparently claims that universities will cha... More

The government is considering a proposal to allow extra places in English universities for wealthy UK students. The idea is that English universities could make extra places available for self-funding students which would ... More

Cambridge University recruited more state-school and state-college students in 2010 than in the previous year. This represented 59.3% of the 2010 intake, the second highest in the last 30 years.

There are calls for a more consistent approach to the punishment of students who plagiarise at Welsh universities. Students receive very varied punishments, ranging from failing an assignment to a formal warning or expulsi... More

Resentful teachers in state schools apparently advise pupils against applying to Oxford and Cambridge universities. Research by the Sutton Trust found that half of state school teachers would not recommend Oxbridge to brig... More

UCAS applicants are not being told which universities are at risk of closure. The Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) is said to have a secet list of imperilled institutions but university applicants ... More