It almost took until Domesday to finish...
More than 20 years of painstaking work has finally borne fruit at the University of Hull where three academics have managed to produce the world's first electronic Domesday Book . The digital version...
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Plymouth to close sites in drive to join elite
Plymouth University plans to close its Seale-Hayne agricultural centre and is pulling out of Exeter as part of a major shake-up. Vice-chancellor Roland Levinsky said this week that the university was...
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Analysis: Those 'Mickey Mouse' degrees are having the last laugh
It is not just medicine and law that prove popular with students and employers, 'quasi-academic' degrees are winning favour. The THES reports. Critics of media studies and other non-traditional...
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Further education: Milk, eggs, IT skills...
Fancy nipping to Sainsbury's to learn how to send an email? Welcome to learning for all, says John Harwood. About 65,000 students are studying higher education courses at further education colleges...
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Analysis: Blair scores an own goal on youth pitch
It is not just medicine and law that prove popular with students and employers, 'quasi-academic' degrees are winning favour. The THES reports The government's success in reducing youth unemployment...
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Analysis: IT graduates suffer most in jobs slump
It is not just medicine and law that prove popular with students and employers, 'quasi-academic' degrees are winning favour. The THES reports. Just a year or two ago, IT graduates could pick and...
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Analysis: Medicine is in fine fettle
It is not just medicine and law that prove popular with students and employers, 'quasi-academic' degrees are winning favour. The THES reports. The number of people applying to study medicine in 2003...
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Hanna's budget fears
Carmel Hanna, higher and further education minister in Northern Ireland's suspended assembly, has warned against alteration in her former department's budget as the province's two universities battle...
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Boost to employability
Students and young people across Europe will be encouraged to develop employability skills via work experience though a European Framework for Work Experience. The UK's Careers Research and Advisory...
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Essay prize awarded
Oxford University research scientist Kathleen Taylor has won this year's Palgrave Macmillan/ THES Humanities and Social Sciences Writing prize with an essay inspired by the Albert Einstein's quote: "...
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Male clinicians shun family-friendly policies
Male hospital doctors claim to be very happy and involved with their family roles, but admit they rarely adjust their long working hours to suit family commitments, with many missing key events such...
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College HE standards hit by flawed marking
Flawed student assessment practices are undermining confidence in the standard of some higher education courses in English further education colleges, quality watchdogs have warned. In a report on...
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Queen honours top 20 projects
Genetic fingerprinting, work with refugees, Charles Darwin's letters and the science of cleaning were among 20 winners of the Queen's Anniversary prizes for higher and further education, awarded last...
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Whistleblowers: Serial litigant accuses race council of racism
The race equality watchdog has joined a growing list of institutions accused of racism by former Greenwich University lecturer Suresh Deman. The THES reported last week that Mr Deman, a business...
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US early admissions lose favour
Competition among America's elite institutions for the best students has taken another twist with last week's announcements by Stanford and Yale universities that they will drop their early...