Athletic university is a record breaker
Loughborough University is celebrating research grants and contracts worth nearly Pounds 22 million awarded to its 23 departments over the past 12 months. The total breaks the university's record set...
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Costs thwart broader access
Members of groups that are under-represented in full-time higher education are turning away from study, according to analysis by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. The turnabout...
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Enrolment tops two million
More than two million people enrolled in higher education in the 1997-98 academic year, according to figures from the Higher Education Satistics Agency. The sector had an academic workforce of 128,...
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Irish conference talks about widening access
Greater cooperation between the higher education systems north and south of the Irish border was a theme discussed at a conference in Dublin yesterday. It was organised jointly by the Universities...
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Students back rector who led racist singsong
Students at St Andrews University have called on today's senate meeting to support the award of an honorary degree to the student-elected rector, Donald Findlay QC (pictured). Some senate members...
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Student, 20, expelled after indecent assault
St Andrews University has expelled a male student convicted of indecently assaulting a female student in her hall of residence room. A university spokeswoman confirmed that modern history student...
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Disabled dons lobby DFEE for cash carrots
A group of disabled academics took their campaign for reform in higher education to the Department for Education and Employment this week. The group, led by Cedric Pugh of Sheffield Hallam University...
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Natfhe threatens strike over redundancies
Lecturers' union Natfhe is to ballot on strike action at two colleges that are facing redundancies. This week Chester College's Natfhe branch voted to ballot for a strike, just days after the branch...
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Paying the rent
(Photograph) - Paying the rent: former University of Wales, Bangor student Edward Povey has signed a unique art for accommodation deal with his old university. He will be given a studio in exchange...
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Glasgow youth see bright future ahead
Young people from Drumchapel, one of Glasgow's most deprived areas, are optimistic about their futures, according to researchers at Glasgow Caledonian University. A survey, carried out for the...
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Pounds 54 million boost for adult learning services
Ministers have announced an extra Pounds 54 million for learning and careers advice services for adults. The advice services will be run through the network of local learning partnerships, made up of...
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Lack of cash causing Welsh standards to fall
Welsh college students are being "short-changed" because of a lack of investment in the improvement of standards, according to Chris Hughes, the chief executive of the Further Education Development...
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Credit scheme will help N. Irish education
Northern Ireland has embarked on a three-year project to set up a pioneering credit accumulation and transfer scheme for all post-18 education and training. The Northern Ireland Credit Accumulation...
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Male dinosaurs used 'whips' in mating game
Far from being merely a tool of war, dinosaurs' horns were used to attract female mates, according to research from a Leeds University zoologist. Neil Alexander, an expert in prehistoric reptiles,...
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Not by the numbers
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals' reluctance to accept a numerical approach to quality assurance ("Quality plan stalls as QAA faces dissent", THES, September 17) is to be applauded....