The Turner books were "under-conserved" and "under-used" and "where they end up is irrelevant", said the collection's purchaser, international dealer Simon Finch, this week. Mr Finch slammed concerns...
Universities and colleges are to be given powers to provide secondary-level education independently of local education authorities. The Learning and Skills Bill, published last week, will allow...
Wednesday I spend the whole day driving, passing through Boni and Hombori, two tiny African villages to the east of Bamako in Mali. Along the way, we pick up a soldier who has an AK-47. His weapon-...
A sneak preview of next year's news stories Education ministers are enrolling as mature students as part of education secretary David Blunkett's plans to set a good lifelong learning example. Further...
A sneak preview of next year's news stories The campaign against genetically modified crops is to be extended to all food. Protesters launched the "Don't eat dinner" action after receiving documents...
Strathclyde University has unleashed two radical weapons - poetry and photography - in the battle to improve public understanding of science. Dino Jaroszynski and Brian McNeil of Strathclyde's...
Universities are becoming "fractured" communities, thanks to the emergence of a cadre of senior manager-academics who have lost touch with teaching and research, a national study has found, writes...
The CVCP aims to persuade the government that higher education is vital to wealth creation and social inclusion. Tony Tysome reports Vice-chancellors conjured scenes from Oliver Twist last week, when...
By all accounts Richard Baker, leader of the National Union of Students in Scotland, is the very model of a modern student leader. Once criticised by some for backing the formation of the Cubie...
Roger Brown, principal of Southampton Institute, has been elected vice chairman of the Standing Conference of Principals. The other vice-chairman is John Carter, chief executive of Edge Hill College...
Jagdish Gundara of London University's Institute of Education, has been elected president of the International Association of Intercultural Education, which is based in Sweden and publishes the...
Turkmenistan president Sapar-myrat Niyazov has decreed that the 21st century will be a "golden" age in which "science, education and learning will become the great pillars of the nation and social...
A professor sacked two years ago for accusing medical staff of professional negligence has been on hunger strike since December 7. Michele Nigro, 56, head pathology consultant at the state hospital...
University campuses in the capital of Burkina Faso and at Bobo Diolasso, the country's second biggest city, have been closed indefinitely following a wave of protests by students and human rights...
Italian children up to nine years of age are determined to believe in Father Christmas, according to a study by the Observatory of Magical Phenomena at the University of Perugia. From a sample of 500...