Degree award faces overhaul
Traditional degree classifications could soon be scrapped following new research that shows that most universities are already giving graduates aggregate final marks as part of new transcripts of...
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Graduate premium slashed by DFES recount
A university degree may add less to a graduate's lifetime earnings than previously indicated by the government, according to its own figures. Data from the Department for Education and Skills show...
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Poor students are four times less likely to go to university than their better-off counterparts
Poor students are four times less likely to go to university than their better-off counterparts who are more relaxed about incurring debts, according to new research that raises big questions about...
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Oxford academic selected to lead Commonwealth universities group
An Oxford academic is to be the new secretary-general of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. John Rowett, chief executive of the Rhodes Trust, will succeed Canadian Michael Gibbons when he...
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Wellcome Trust accuses science journals of ignoring public interest
Market-obsessed scientific publishers are ignoring the interests of science and the public, the Wellcome Trust has said. The trust published an independent analysis of the £22 billion research-...
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Westminster winners
Journalism students at the University of Westminster won all three BBC awards for up-and-coming investigative journalists. The gold award went to Samantha Washington and Phillip Kemp for their...
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GM animal consultation
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has begun a consultation on the use of genetically modified animals in research. Nearly a quarter of animal experiments last year used GM animals, ten times more...
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Primers for principals
A Centre for Excellence in Leadership that will train college principals, chief executives and managers in the post-16 sector opened yesterday. It is run by a partnership led by Lancaster University...
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Esso still in the frame
Esso, the oil giant owned by ExxonMobil, has denied claims that it has been driven out of the university recruitment milkround. Student pressure group People and Planet has claimed victory in a two-...
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Get your cat scanned
Edinburgh University has installed an £88,000 ultrasound scanner to help treat pets. It is the first in Europe to be used on small animals. Funding was raised by sponsored dog walks and other charity...
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Corrections
The £120 million said by PricewaterhouseCoopers to be owed to UK universities consists mainly of bad debt from commercial activities, not student debt as reported last week. Contrary to last week's...
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Flagship degree wins over students
Foundation degrees are proving a hit with students and institutions, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, which will bolster the government's drive to expand...
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Goose brothers tune in to foundations
Identical twins Ramon and Josef Gasewicz left work on a building site to take up places on a popular-music foundation degree course, writes Tony Tysome. Before joining the course at Colchester...
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Tories: grammars answer to access
New grammar schools will be established in Tory-controlled areas in a bid to widen participation in higher education, shadow further and higher education minister Tim Boswell said this week. The...
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Top ten favourites retain poll positions
The radically altered picture of graduate employment prospects that emerged from the reclassification of jobs for league tables published in The THES last spring was no flash in the pan, a more...