Universities will not be penalised if they fail to meet their own milestones for enrolling more students from poor backgrounds, the Government confirmed this week. Academic institutions will also be...
The first sign of a change in government thinking on financial support for part-time students emerged this week, as ministers approved a "sliding scale" of grants. After a lobbying campaign by the...
The Department For International Development, which oversees an annual research budget of more than £150 million, has demonstrated a "fundamental lack of scientific culture", MPs say. In a report...
A college has paid £15,000 to settle a disability discrimination claim brought by its former disability coordinator. Solicitors acting for Sharifa Farley, who headed a disability rights project at...
"Nowadays, everything can be settled using money." With these nonchalant words, Zhang, a Chinese sixth-form student taking his A levels in Oxford, explained how simple it is to fix a place at...
A dearth of university places in China means that 1.3 million of the country's school-leavers are denied a university place, so demand for places in the world-renowned British system is on the...
Leader of the revolution and all that jazz A love of music was listed by a fifth of the country's university heads in a survey of vice-chancellors' backgrounds last month by The Times Higher . Few,...
The UK's leading music colleges want to debunk the myth that they are the preserve of students from privileged backgrounds. This is one of the priorities of the new Conservatoires UK group, which...
The BBC has signed two major agreements with universities in the Midlands. The corporation will for the first time provide joint training for students as part of a new media production course at De...
Edinburgh will have a new university by 2006, according to the principal of the city's Queen Margaret University College, Tony Cohen. There has been past speculation that QMUC might seek university...
Bristol University this week became the latest institution to launch a bid to join the global super league, when it unveiled plans to invest more than Pounds 250 million in new research facilities...
Heavyweight opposition from the heads of three science departments has prompted Cambridge University to rethink pay reforms that would offer better salaries for senior dons at the expense of junior...
Joseph Stiglitz's criticism of free-market zeal has ruffled all sorts of feathers, but Stephen Phillips warms to the laureate. Globalisation rebel and Nobel laureate Joseph E. Stiglitz has a schedule...
Up to 50 per cent of black male social scientists may have left the UK for the US. Stephen Phillips finds out why. "If you wanted to hold a black British social scientists forum, you'd have to [...
As the Northeast prepares to vote on a regional assembly, Huw Richards talks politics with the man heading the ESRC's devolution programme. Charlie Jeffery will have an excellent vantage point as the...