Quality watchdogs have produced a new draft of their controversial and long-awaited proposals for a code of practice on complaints and appeals, writes Tony Tysome. The redrafting was ordered by...
The revamped vice-chancellors' representative body got off to a bumpy start with a disagreement between policy chiefs and Scottish university and college heads. Members of the Committee of Scottish...
Social scientists this week called on scientists to be frank about the limits to their knowledge in order to overcome the public mistrust of genetically modified food. In a report recommending a...
Female medical students are being targeted by the Royal College of Surgeons, which has pledged to double the number of women consultant surgeons in the next five years. The college looks after...
A 30-year-old consortium specialising in buying and selling information offers the blueprint for a national network, according to a Southampton study. The consortium, called Hatrics, provides...
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals is to shake off its 'inaccessible' image and reorganise along regional lines to meet institutions' new challenges. Tony Tysome reports Vice-...
Middlesex University bent its own quality control rules to set up a deal to offer degrees in partnership with the professional accountancy body, the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants....
Campus chaplains are warning universities to beware of an "abusive" sectarian religious group, known as the International Church of Christ, that is targeting vulnerable new undergraduates. The group...
Architecture degrees should be restructured into a seven-year system of credits, says a long-awaited report on education and training from the Royal Institute of British Architects this week. The...
A flagship teacher-training project run by the University of Nottingham in collaboration with outstanding local primary schools has received a mediocre report following its first Ofsted inspection....
Microsoft is forging ahead with a series of education alliances that it hopes will reshape teaching and training. Chris Johnston reports With an operating system that drives 90 per cent of the world'...
Scotland's universities are refusing to be dismayed by cuts in graduate recruitment at chip design company Cadence, which the firm blames on a shortage of experienced managers. Steve Beaumont,...
College heads have accused ministers of causing them planning blight by issuing baffling signals over the title "university college". They are demanding an explanation from the Department for...
* Members of the Association of University Teachers Scotland are being asked whether the union should lobby all the main political party conferences north of the border, beef up its website and...
* Manchester University has been sued by a student after losing his books stored in a bathroom locker. Twenty textbooks owned by Simone Rudich were lost during renovation, Manchester Crown Court...