Cambridge University dons have complained that the university filled a new senior executive post with no proper job description and without opening the post to competition. A year after an audit...
Universities are over-estimating student travel plans when applying for grants from the European Union's Erasmus programme, according to a report from the EU's Court of Auditors.
Natfhe is on the warpath over governance structures that reflect the 'dysfunctional distrust of staff'. Claire Sanders reports. A well-worn joke about university governance goes like this: who really...
Liberal Democrat education spokesman Phil Willis has warned his party against dropping its penny-on-tax policy if it means reneging on further and higher education promises. Mr Willis spoke out after...
The government's promise to get 50 per cent of young people into higher education is marginalising the over-30s, according to the National Institute for Adult and Continuing Education. Niace director...
Children of victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks have been invited to apply for new scholarships to study at British universities, worth up to £14,000 a year. Money for the scheme, which is...
London Guildhall University and the University of North London have denied that their plans to merge have been harmed by the decision to award them just half the money they wanted, writes Alison...
Up to 200 jobs could be lost at Middlesex University as part of plans to save at least £5 million after a "very disappointing" funding settlement and problems collecting student debt. To underline...
Roger McClure, the new joint chief executive of the Scottish Further and Higher Education Funding Councils, confesses to being "a compulsive problem-solver". He might have become an academic...
Greenwich and Kent universities are pioneering the country's first higher education mall. The two universities are behind a £20 million scheme to create a joint campus that will offer courses from...
Measures to protect university computer networks from hackers have lagged behind the growth in the use and importance of the networks, an expert has warned. Andrew Cormack, chief security adviser for...
Proposed changes to postgraduate medical education could jeopardise the training of senior doctors, say medical academics and doctors' leaders. In response to a Department of Health consultation on a...
Universities cannot assume that new students have basic numeracy skills even if they have studied mathematics at GCSE or A level, concludes a study that presents evidence of a decline in maths...
A study for the Task Force on College Drinking has found that about 1,400 students aged 18 to 24 die each year in the United States in alcohol-related accidents. College-based drinking contributes to...
Katharine Lyall this year marks her tenth year as president of the University of Wisconsin system, making her one of the longest-serving chief executives in US higher education. It also means that Dr...