External auditors PwC are reviewing the university at the request of the Scottish Funding Council.

Incredulity over role for Anant Ambani, son of India’s richest person, who also runs a controversial mega-zoo Newcastle University is facing a backlash from conservationists over the appointment of the heir to an Indian oil and gas fortune who runs a controversial mega-zoo as a professor of sustainability. The university announced that Anant Ambani had been given a professorship of practice for “his work in conservation, biodiversity protection, animal welfare, and environmental stewardship” and “significant contributions to advancing a more sustainable future”. Continue reading...

About 50 people wave their placards on the picket line in Colchester.

Unprecedentedly long strikes at Nottingham, Edinburgh and Dundee could be the shape of things to come, observers say

Russell Group universities are axing jobs and cutting courses as the sector faces a financial crisis fuelled by a drop in international students

Public institution to become autonomous company within wider private education group

UCU branch's strike action aims to fight “likely” redundancies across several research areas

The 60% increase shows how even top institutions are scrambling to deal with falling numbers of overseas students and stagnating domestic tuition fees

Undergraduates say they are missing social events and meals to make ends meet

Undergraduates say they are missing social events and missing meals to make ends meet