Bob Fryer has been appointed chief executive designate of the National Health Service University. News of his appointment came as Universities UK and the Department of Health announced that they had...
Unequal access to universities between rich and poor is just one of many institutionalised inequities, the annual conference of the Society for Research into Higher Education will hear next week....
A British-born scientist is one of three researchers to be brought from the United States to Britain under the Royal Society's "David Beckhams of Science" scheme. The Royal Society unveiled the 13...
London Guildhall University governors face a crunch decision on Tuesday over whether to merge with the University of North London. They have to consider a new business plan that was prepared to...
Students are narrowing the focus of their studies to what will win them marks because they are having to work their way through university, a national conference on assessment heard in Birmingham...
A rare and valuable Corinthian marble well-head, used as a flower pot in a college garden for nearly 200 years, is to be sold by Christies auctioneers. The well-head, or puteal, is to be sold along...
Mike Dexter, director of the Wellcome Trust, has called on the government to introduce universally acceptable guidelines for research and investigation of misconduct, writes Caroline Davis. He said...
The High Court has given the go-ahead to an inquiry into the forced ejection of an international scholar at Oxford University, which was set up by the university in response to an investigation by...
A blind student with one leg has been given an out-of-court payment to settle his claims of disability discrimination against the University of Central Lancashire. The university has admitted that it...
The science community has given a cool welcome to plans for a government directorate dedicated to technology transfer. But it is split over the decision to leave the Office of Science and Technology...
Running costs at the Student Loans Company are nearly four times what they were when the scheme started. In the academic year 1999-2000 - the most recent for which figures are available - running...
An effective leukaemia vaccine could be available within a few years following a breakthrough by scientists at Nottingham Trent University. Robert Rees, Colin Creaser and Philip Bonner, of the...
Further education college chiefs and union leaders have warned that government plans to draft further education lecturers into schools will drain colleges of their most valuable teachers. Estelle...
Proposed improvements to the lecturers' pension scheme could stave off the looming recruitment and retention crisis, the Association of University Teachers believes. Trustees of the Universities...
The quality wars could be over north of the border, with broad backing for a Scottish system that it is claimed will be much less burdensome than England's quality assurance scheme. The Scottish...