Youth in work data request is denied
The government this week rejected calls to publish the number of young people who get a steady job immediately after full-time education and training under the New Deal. The Commons education and...
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Welsh recruiting success
Growth in the recruitment of "traditional" further education students aged 16 to 18 in Welsh colleges and universities has reached a peak while the number of mature further education students...
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Three new universities scoop Queen's prizes
A record three new universities have been honoured in this year's Queen's anniversary prizes. Greenwich, Middlesex and Oxford Brookes were among the 17 prizewinning institutions recognised for...
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Rome: exchange agreed
La Sapienza University has signed an agreement with the University of Belgrade for exchanges of lecturers, researchers and students.
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Bonn: IT centre for women
The German education and family ministries will spend E5.11 million (£3.4 million) over the next five years to establish a centre to encourage women into information technology and other...
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Mitchell honoured by student exchange
Twelve US students have won scholarships to study in Ireland as a tribute to George Mitchell, the American senator who helped shape the Northern Ireland peace process. The Mitchell scholarships for...
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Recognition for late BBC broadcaster
Sir Robin Day will receive a posthumous award for political interviewing from the Political Studies Association next week. The award will be one of a series to mark the 50th anniversary of the PSA,...
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Bond scholar uses many pennies for trek
Glasgow University student Jack Savage will hopefully be stirred but not shaken by his experiences on a new travelling scholarship commemorating an adventurer said to be the model for James Bond. Sir...
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Clarification
The University of Lincolnshire and Humberside has asked The THES to point out that it spends £280 per full-time equivalent student on computers and information technology. The amount puts it in the...
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Colleges may get bill for low numbers
Further education colleges could be presented with a multimillion pound bill by the new Learning and Skills Council next year. Those that have been allowed to carry forward a recruitment deficit for...
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Fees figure in merger plans
A collegiate mega-university for the 21st century that would back the introduction of top-up fees is one of the favoured models arising from merger talks between Birmingham and Aston universities....
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Health groups try to overcome 'tribal barriers'
The first steps towards a core curriculum for doctors, nurses and other health professionals have been taken by the Quality Assurance Agency's benchmarking groups. The National Health Service Plan ,...
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Industrial action begins to hit sector
Higher education's winter of discontent is starting to bite as the first wave of strikes over the axing of courses and jobs hits universities. Staff will strike next week at the College of Ripon and...
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Cold Christmas for freshers evicted from London halls
Students from universities across London face eviction three days before Christmas because the private company running their hall of residence is selling it. Managers of Cartwright Hall in Bloomsbury...
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Cost of renting rising faster than value of loans
Average student rents in university halls are rising faster than student loans, according to a survey by the National Union of Students. The survey found that the average rent in the United Kingdom...