The University of Staffordshire has been conducting research without proper ethical approval. In a document seen by The THES , the university's academic ethics committee warns that "projects that...
The National Union of Students' new welfare officer warned this week that university mergers may leave students with a worse deal. Verity Coyle, president of Lincoln University student union, said...
More joint strategic planning between further and higher education is needed if government targets for widening participation are to be achieved, according to a report by the Learning and Skills...
Welsh higher education institutions are facing a cash crisis that will put them at a standstill for the next three years, funding chiefs have warned. They will be operating on "wafer-thin" reserves...
Women graduates earn 15 per cent less than men before they reach the age of 24, according to a joint campaign from the National Union of Students and the Equal Opportunities Commission. The "15 per...
Lifelong learning has been damaged by government initiatives that have stretched resources and produced a complex and confusing system, according to one lifelong learning professor. Frank Coffield of...
Britain has taken "two steps forward and one step back" in its journey towards creating a learning society, adult learning chiefs said this week. Launching its tenth Adult Learners Week, Niace, the...
It was supposed to be the archaeological find of the century - the gilded mummy of a Persian princess. Yet when the first carbon-dating results emerged from the coffin, Wolfgang Kretschmer knew...
Engineers have equipped a robot with the one social skill essential to British society - the ability to queue politely, writes Steve Farrar. The droid uses stereo vision, a sophisticated navigation...
Academic authors have failed to claim more than £750,000 of royalties from photocopying. The money comes from the licence fee universities pay to the Copyright Licensing Agency, the subject of the...
Students forced to work during term time can gain considerable benefits, such as enhanced management skills and increased confidence, and the negative effects on their academic work are marginal,...
Cambridge University's plans to hand new executive powers to its vice-chancellor are dangerous and ill-conceived and will undermine its dons' historical right to democratic self-rule, the university'...
Surgical apprenticeships are disintegrating. So what now, Claire Sanders asks Keeping human and sheep heads in separate rooms is just one of the many challenges faced by Paul O'Flynn, a lecturer at...
Two Edinburgh University postgraduates who hope to create a ski that reacts to the texture of the snow are among 15 student teams in the final stages of competing for a £10,000 business plan prize....
Cambridge University celebrated a milestone in its ten-year masterplan for a 66-hectare science and technology complex to the west of Cambridge last week when it officially opened its multimillion-...