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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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: "...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Tim Wilson is to take over as vice-chancellor of Hertfordshire University next year when Neil Buxton retires after 15 years. Professor Wilson, a former rugby coach, has been at the university since...
Labour backbenchers are threatening a revolt over top-up fees amid fears that higher tuition charges will deter young people from poor families, writes Alan Thomson. More than 90 Labour MPs have...
The government must plough an extra £9.6 million a year into higher education, as well as £7.9 million in one-off capital expenditure, if careers services are to meet graduate employability...
The prospect of a life spent inside an ivory tower has never appealed to Malcolm Grant, pro vice-chancellor of Cambridge University. He has a string of outside interests including being a barrister...