Caroline Davis looks at the university city of Norwich There is an old Norfolk saying, "people in Norfolk do things different", and so when the University of East Anglia was established in Norwich 40...
A European investigation of students' information and communications skills has buried the myth that men are more confident than women about using computers. The Survey of European Universities...
Students can gain degrees after completing as little as a third of their courses by paying universities to assess their life experiences and offset them against teaching and assessment. The Quality...
Stephen Quirke's online project will let students hear the words of the ancient Egyptians. The internet - good or bad? Some academics love the cheap instant access to information, opinions and images...
The foundation degree is a hit, writes Henry Seaton, but it is still tainted by the nomenclature of further and higher education. "It'll be alright; don't ask me how; it just will," predict Pinter's...
Private universities are a valuable asset to any country if they are regulated appropriately, says Roger King. Governments everywhere regard a robust and growing higher education system as essential...
Wednesday My work supports that of lawyers defending those on trial for their lives. I research cases, visit clients and interview their families to find evidence, explanation and mitigation. With my...
Peter Knight, the maverick vice-chancellor of the University of Central England, has invited shadow education secretary Damien Green and his higher education spokesman Tim Boswell to spend a week at...
Managers at the University of the West of England have been consistently ambivalent about the pleasure or otherwise of hosting the Higher Education Funding Council for England on their campus,...
A former researcher at Michigan State University has been jailed for ten months and ordered to repay his research grant after he admitted faking the theft of bacteria. Scott Doree was supposed to be...
Julie Watson, principal lecturer in science at the University of Teesside, married one of her former students last weekend. Not only is the former student 16 years her junior, she is also a woman and...
It took universities some 200 years to change from medieval theological institutions that explained the world in terms of the Bible to the modern university that explains the world in terms of...
Teachers who are research active tend to teach better, find Hannah Barker and Monica McLean. Do you have to be an active researcher to be a good university teacher? Not according to the government....
The skills sought by employers are best taught by employers, according to a study published last week. Most of the gaps in graduates' knowledge were specific to the job and could not be addressed by...
Academic researchers are to have a say in what science the research councils fund. Research Councils UK has launched a consultation on the priorities for its 2004 spending-review bid. It suggests a...