Scotland is revamping its innovative Pounds 11 million "proof of concept" fund, which has produced funding for only nine out of 83 research projects in the first round. University leaders say this...
CollegeNet, a consortium of seven colleges of further education, has launched a free scheme to help people in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), as well as individuals, to learn new online...
More than 200 internet writers converged on Nottingham Trent University this week for one of the biggest "flesh" meetings of cyberauthors in the country. The three-day event attracted more than 40...
A patented production technique that uses microwaves to penetrate corks has been developed by Portuguese, German and Spanish SMEs working with a German research institute. The project was funded by...
The British Council has launched a website designed to enable learners of all levels and ages to practise English. There are three learning zones: kids, teens and adults. When users enter they are...
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has launched a new online database, InFact, giving detailed information on student enrolments in Scotland's 47 further education colleges. It includes...
In its early days, cynics often termed the Human Genome Project an advanced case of "physics envy" - the biologists' lust for a big project to rival the particle accelerators and space telescopes of...
Academics should put politics aside and reach out to Serbia's long-suffering intellectuals, writes Dejan Djokic Exactly two years after the Serbian parliament ended the autonomy of universities, the...
Daniel Stone, financial director of Bretton Hall College in Wakefield, has been suspended while an inquiry is carried out for the Higher Education Funding Council, putting pressure on the college's...
The number of households gambling more than 10 per cent of their weekly income has quadrupled since the introduction of the National Lottery, a new study has found. Analysis of official data by Paul...
Lecturers' union leaders have condemned as "educational vandalism" plans to axe 180 jobs at Britain's biggest further education college, writes Tony Tysome. Representatives of Natfhe, the college...
Controversial proposals for the introduction of top-up fees were condemned this week by economists, students, headteachers, lecturers' unions and further education leaders, while vice-chancellors...
Oxford Brookes University has pulled out of a deal to award "instant" degrees to part-qualified professional accountancy students without requiring them to do any additional work at university....
Peru's university professors are pressing their government to subsidise the country's academic book publishers. Students are able to afford just one or two texts, often rendering course work...
A study of 43,717 students who graduated from 18 Italian universities last year has shown that 83 per cent were over 25 when they completed their studies. More than 73 per cent came from families...