One of further education's biggest institutions will be created next year under new proposals to merge three colleges in Derby. Funding chiefs say the move reflects a trend towards the development of...
Andre Durand marked the end of his tenure as artist-in-residence at Kingston University with the unveiling of his controversial allegorical posthumous portrait of Diana, Princess of Wales, as the...
Universities are saving about Pounds 50 million a year by illegally exploiting an army of hourly paid lecturers, trade union Natfhe says. A Natfhe survey extrapolates that more than 15,000 part-time...
Swansea University's head of philosophy, Laurence Goldstein, has resigned in the face of charges of sexual harassment and the intimidation of colleagues. The university has confirmed this week that...
Statisticians have devised a simple model for detecting cheating in multiple-choice exams. The system scans through test results to identify copying. George Wesolowsky, a management scientist at...
I always face a sea of new student faces at the start of term. Any tips on how I can remember their names and identities? * Lorraine Stefani, Reader in academic practice, University of Strathclyde It...
(Photograph) - David Howe, a lecturer in the anthropology of sport at Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education and a cerebral palsy sufferer, will run in the 5,000 metres for his native...
If qualifications and experience are anything to go by, Rajinder Mann should now be one of further education's rising stars. In a sector that has been urged by education secretary David Blunkett to...
Whistleblowers can be protected against victimisation even if they raised the alarm before public interest disclosure laws came into force last year, a tribunal chair has ruled. Setting a precedent...
Will the Human Rights Act spell the end of the visitor system and herald a host of lawsuits from aggrieved students? Alison Utley finds out University registrars are divided over what the Human...
Zhengxiao Guo, reader in materials at Queen Mary and Westfield College, has been awarded the Beilby Medal by the Society of Chemical Industry. The University of Wolverhampton has awarded an honorary...
The UK Council for Graduate Education has set up a working party to examine research training in creative and performing arts and design. It has been convened by Elaine Thomas, director of the Surrey...
Simon Schama, professor of art history and history at Columbia University, New York, admitted to feeling "sheepish" at the launch earlier this month of his ambitious BBC television series, A History...
What is it about rowing and the law? James Cracknell, a member of the coxless four who paddled to gold in the Sydney Olympics, is due to start a law conversion course at the College of Law on his...
Luke Kontogiannis, who recently graduated from Dundee University with a first-class degree in molecular genetics, has been named best biology student in the United Kingdom in the Millennium Science...