London-based New College of the Humanities to make offers based on interviews and earlier exam scores

The university has had a wretched time of late, being hit by a £36.5m fine and stripped of the right to sponsor students from outside the EU

Science, maths, medicine and engineering degrees will all now require at least two A*s and one A

A union is threatening to take legal action against any university which docks its members a day's pay for taking part in upcoming strike action.

Lecturers' union UCU is planning to disrupt this term with a series of two-hour walkouts over pay and conditions

The so-called "Sussex 5" reinstated after pressure from students, MPs - and Cara Delevingne

It has taken almost a decade of discussion, but it appears that the time has come for reform of degree classifications.

Universities' governing body warns institutions need to balance freedom of speech with respect

Students can schedule the lessons around jobs, children and other responsibilities

Now, if I were the sort of lazy, formulaically minded, indeed "garbagic" journalist that Alastair Campbell so understandably despises, this article would be very easy to compose. It would go something like this:

Academics to stare into the void at Manchester Metropolitan University. Will the void stare back?

And now for something completely different. Brunel University has just officially launched the first Centre for Comedy Studies in the UK's higher education system.

Academics and university support staff will hold a one-day national strike at the end of this month, in an escalating row over pay and conditions.

University releases sample questions ahead of interviews in December to "demystify" the process

Mike Nicholson told a conference of exam board representatives of 'tragic consequences' of exam reform