Welsh gain £33m
Welsh higher education institutions will get an extra £22.5 million this financial year to compensate them for not being allowed to introduce top-up fees until 2007. The total additional money...
Welsh higher education institutions will get an extra £22.5 million this financial year to compensate them for not being allowed to introduce top-up fees until 2007. The total additional money...
Students at St Hilda's College, Oxford University's last all-female college, have voted to allow men in by 55 per cent. The governing body, which must approve any proposed policy change, has set no...
Cranfield University has announced the creation of Dubai Aerospace Enterprise University - a joint project with Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, a government agency. The university is expected to enrol 8,...
Lecturers and universities can list forthcoming public lectures and other events on a new website, Open-lecture.net. The site promotes free public educational events and lists lectures, seminars,...
Ukerna (United Kingdom Education and Research Networking Association) has signed a deal with InTechnology to provide data backup, archiving, hosting and web file services to universities linked to...
Four Scottish higher education institutions have united to help film-makers, artists, product designers and other creative people find commercial success. St Andrews University, Duncan of Jordanstone...
A library is offering prizes of £100 and £50 for poems inspired by the phrase "remains all too human". Cambridge University's Haddon Library of Archaeology and Anthropology is holding the competition...
Nobel laureate Sir Paul Nurse, who left Britain for New York two years ago, has launched a withering attack on the state of biomedical research in the US. Sir Paul, one of Britain's most popular and...
It's teleportation - but not as Captain Kirk knew it. York University computer experts have demonstrated how Star Trek fiction is already becoming scientific fact. In a classic episode of the TV...
Cambridge University is taking a far higher percentage of its students from the state sector than Oxford University - and the gap appears to be widening. Figures released by Cambridge this week show...
From queens to fishwives, suffragettes to prostitutes: the first Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women is helping to address concerns about gender imbalance in historical record. The dictionary,...
£4.2 billion for teaching - an increase of 4 per cent in real terms £1.3 billion for research - up by 4.6 per cent in real terms £344 million for widening participation - up by 18.5 per cent in real...
Cambridge and Oxford universities are the main beneficiaries of research allocations from the Higher Education Funding Council for England unveiled this week, writes Jessica Shepherd. Cambridge, with...
Tens of thousands of mature students could be forced to pay their £3,000 top-up fees upfront this year because the Government has blocked their access to state grants or loans. Student leaders have...
In what is fast becoming one of the highlights of higher education's social calendar, the Times Higher Awards 2006 were launched with a champagne party in the National Portrait Gallery in London....