Tobacco companies could be hit as pension funds inch towards ethical investment. Gideon Burrows reports From this month, university employees will be able to find out if their pension contributions...
Scotland has won a Pounds 3.4 billion boost for the next three years, hailed by Scotland's finance minister Jack McConnell as the highest ever level of spending on services north of the border. The...
Science is Pounds 500 million richer after chancellor Gordon Brown declared it was central to the economic future of the United Kingdom during his announcement of the government's comprehensive...
Elite universities should scrap the interview process in favour of A-level results if they want to increase the number of successful applications from state schools, the Commons education select...
Financial problsm may be contributing to a drop in applications this year Andrew Cubie received a rare accolade this week. No one could remember the last time a guest at a National Union of Students...
Meanwhile, Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning faced the massed ranks of Scottish student officers, writes Olga Wojtas. In a ground-breaking display of...
Academics could be asked to bar from lectures students who have outstanding tuition fees, to help tackle mounting debts. Universities report that they are owed increasing amounts from students as the...
Students from low-income families who are exempt from paying tuition fees are being wrongly pursued for the money as the result of a bureaucratic bungle, writes Alison Goddard. The Student Loans...
Increasing numbers of students are studying locally or taking a year out to raise the money to support themselves through university, according to figures released today. One in six students starting...
Universities and colleges without clearly defined missions are at risk of going bust, Sir David Watson, director of the University of Brighton, warned this week in a publication to mark the third...
A new book claims that the only way to increase the proportion of students from non-traditional backgrounds is to tackle the elitist structures still lingering in universities, writes Alison Utley....
Relations between student leaders and management at Napier University are at an all-time low, with students claiming they have been marginalised and ignored over concerns about courses. Student...
Quality inspectors have raised serious concerns about Anglia Polytechnic University's expansion into research. They say it may not have the proper infrastructure for such a "significant shift in...
The co-author of the controversial report on top-up fees commissioned by the Russell Group of top research universities has hit back at critics. David Greenaway, pro vice-chancellor at Nottingham...
National negotiating over pay and conditions looked close to collapse this week, as the Association of University Teachers again expressed no confidence in the employers' association and pulled out...