Mathematician and artist Joanna Brown is to enlist a red double-decker bus bound for the G8 summit in Genoa on July 21 in her fight against third-world debt. Dr Brown, a lecturer at Leeds University...
Colleges and universities are the biggest barrier to wider access, because they fail to put the learner at the heart of their work. This is the view of two experts from the Open University in...
Higher education research that shuns big statistical surveys in favour of small anthropological studies will be championed at Lancaster University this month. Paul Trowler, organiser of the Higher...
The auditor-general has urged Scottish ministers to review the Scottish Further Education Funding Council's power to intervene in college affairs, writes Olga Wojtas. Robert Black has highlighted his...
MP Barry Sheerman is backing a radical overhaul of Parliament that would give the education select committee more power to hold the government to account over policy. Mr Sheerman, chairman of the...
Lincoln's university campus has transformed the region's ailing economy, according to a report this week. Five years after opening, the university has raised Lincolnshire's GDP by £24 million a year...
Further education college managers struck at the heart of lecturers' pay claims this week, just as union chiefs lobbied MPs to back their demands. In a briefing to members, the Association of...
Northern Ireland's higher education advisory body could be revamped if proposals for a parallel body for further education and training go ahead. The Northern Ireland Higher Education Council (Nihec...
The long-awaited ombudsman system for universities will not include staff and will allow the visitor to survive. Detailed proposals will be published by Universities UK for consultation next week -...
Tension is mounting between staff and the principal at Wimbledon School of Art about proposals to merge with the London Institute. Wimbledon staff were shocked to hear that the principal, Rod Bugg,...
The government's New Deal to help the unemployed find jobs or training should be opened up to graduates, professionals and would-be entrepreneurs, work minister Nick Brown has said. Mr Brown, who has...
Ministers are urging universities to build closer links with the Learning and Skills Council to help the government realise its higher education expansion targets. Margaret Hodge, lifelong learning...
An Australian scholar's allegations of scientific misconduct were dismissed by an inquiry committee at Bath University even though it did not directly involve him in its investigations. The committee...
Twenty years on from Tory spending cuts, Tony Tysome reports on the outcomes for those hardest hit. It was higher education's equivalent of the Kennedy shooting: every academic can remember what he...
Behind the scenes, university administrators are planning how to celebrate the culmination of this year's research assessment exercise. One suggestion from Alistair McCulloch, head of research at...