The Government should offer national scholarships if it wants universities to continue to offer less popular subjects such as foreign languages and physics, according to a leading vice-chancellor....
Grinding your teeth over all the publicity for that pretentious new book? Apoplectic whenever you see Tony Blair, George Bush or Alan Titchmarsh? Enraged by the gobbledegook in mission statements,...
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Anna Fazackerley, science reporter on The Times Higher , has won the New Business News Journalist of the Year award for 2004. The award from the Periodicals Training Council was announced at a...
College heads have called for a higher education-style fees system to help them hit Government training targets, as ministers urged them to charge more for their courses. Further education colleges...
The Prince of Wales has condemned utilitarian values in further education. In a message to the Association of Colleges conference, he complained that education too often focuses on "the costs and...
Rising interest in forensic science thanks to television crime dramas has led to a surge in degree courses that "are not rigorous enough", according to a report. The Sector Skills Council for Science...
Research and teaching are "essential and intertwined" characteristics of a university, a high-level Government forum concluded this week. The Higher Education Research Forum, created last December by...
Hundreds of European Union students living in the UK could qualify for maintenance grants and loans following a preliminary ruling by the European Court last week. Local education authorities will in...
Publication of a new code of practice on how universities should be run brought a wave of protest from academic unions this week. The 17-point code, launched by the Committee of University Chairmen...
Caroline Davis attends the launch of the UK's first Enterprise Week Departmental politics and slow decision making are among the main barriers to the creation of university spin-off companies,...
Colin Howard is vice-principal for strategic development and professor of veterinary microbiology and parasitology at the Royal Veterinary College. He is also director of the London...
Students should be encouraged to take a "gap year" for enterprise development along the lines of language students spending a year abroad. The proposal came from Kevin Steele, chief executive of...
Academics say the resources squeeze is forcing alarming compromises. Phil Baty reports on the results of an exclusive poll On the face of it, the statement by Les Ebdon, Luton University's vice-...
To give the university some credit - and they don't deserve much - the pressure is less to pass students who are borderline than to revise module requirements to ensure that they pass. For example,...