The government is creating a divide between further and higher education that is stifling progress in lifelong learning, an adult education leader said this week. The focus of ministers' post-16...
Higher education in Cornwall has received a boost after the government pledged £19 million to the Combined Universities in Cornwall project. The scheme, run jointly by Exeter and Plymouth...
The extent of management and accountability shortcomings at the " Fame " school, set up by former Beatle Sir Paul McCartney, is revealed this week in a long-awaited audit report by funding chiefs....
The Republic of Ireland has called in the University of Ulster to train nurse trainers as it faces the first shortage of nurses in its history. The university could find increasing numbers of Irish...
Six hundred years of academic self-rule at Cambridge University will end if it pushes ahead with plans to modernise its management, a don warned last week. Speaking at a Senate House debate on the...
Loughborough University has been accused of "swamping" the town with student bedsits, halls and cars. Loughborough residents and planners said the university's plan to accommodate more than 1,000...
The Wellcome Trust has announced £150 million of grants to help universities modernise their research facilities. The 34 grants were shared between 25 institutions, including £7.9 million for the...
Employers were due to improve on a 3.3 per cent pay offer in a crunch meeting with the trade unions as The THES went to press this week. But the expected increased offer is unlikely to be good enough...
A seismic survey of Silbury Hill is to be carried out to reveal the pits and tunnels that threaten Wiltshire's giant enigmatic neolithic monument. Archaeologists concerned by the prospect of Europe's...
Sunday Cars flow over the brow of the hill like Indians heading for General Custer. Visitor numbers for the Eden Project are more than double planned for - as one of the last millennium projects we...
A whole new area of academic research has emerged - the study of Anthony Giddens, director of the London School of Economics. This month sees the launch of a third book edited by Christopher Bryant,...
Oxford University has invited the cream of the Northeast's teenagers to a special conference at Newcastle United's ground with a free lunch and a chance to meet footballers, in an attempt to boost...
Congratulations to Simon Lee, rector and chief executive of Liverpool Hope University College. He has been shortlisted for the accolade of Britain's best boss in a competition sponsored by Lloyds TSB...
Edinburgh University recently hosted an interdisciplinary conference, organised by its Metamorphosis student society, on how to make work more interesting, creative, healthy, inspiring, fun and...
Jocelyn Bell Burnell , professor of physics at the Open University, has been appointed dean of science at the University of Bath . Charles Bodman Rae , director of studies at the Royal Northern...