Ofsted chief inspector Chris Woodhead defended his controversial habit of commenting on education issues when he appeared before MPs this week. In often heated exchanges with MPs, he told the House...
Scottish students risk missing out on bursaries next year because of an upheaval over the drafting of legislation on student support. The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning...
The government moved to raise the standards of teaching and management in further education colleges this week, announcing a compulsory professional training programme for all new lecturers and...
Bill Morton, acting head of the troubled Scottish Qualifications Authority, this week confessed that he had not known of its latest failure to meet deadlines, writes Olga Wojtas. The SQA has been...
Ten students from University College London will represent Britain at a summit in Berlin on youth and democracy in the European Union. The summit, which starts at the Freie Universitat Berlin on...
The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals may have its first president from a post-1992 university. Roderick Floud, provost of London Guildhall University, is one of two candidates standing in...
A controversial bill to extend the research uses of human foetal cells was rejected by Parliament this week, writes Alan Thomson. Liberal Democrat higher education and science spokesman Evan Harris,...
A group of almost 60 social policy experts has criticised as "fundamentally misguided" a government campaign telling people not to give money to beggars. The open letter to the...
Cambridge University is mounting an ambitious challenge to Oxford University's superiority in the arts and humanities. As the traditionally arts-dominated Oxford begins to challenge Cambridge's...
The head of the Catholic church in Scotland met senior Glasgow University staff last week to discuss concerns that the university's education faculty was not meeting the church's needs. Talks between...
How culpable were scientists in the BSE fiasco? Steve Farrar and Caroline Davis dissect the Phillips report Close to the beginning of the BSE inquiry's 4,000-page report, it is noted: "At the heart...
Radiologist Peter Dawson was not victimised by his managers at Imperial College, London for raising the alarm about risks to patients and accounting inadequacies at Hammersmith Hospital. This is the...
FINANCIAL TIMES All new teachers at further education colleges will have to have a formal teaching qualification, the government has said THE GUARDIAN The government is seeking to speed up the...
American business schools are out of touch and are being overtaken by their European counterparts when it comes to teaching management. This was the message from Leo Murray, director of Cranfield...
Chaucer may have supervised parts of the making of one of the earliest manuscripts of The Canterbury Tales, researchers have discovered. Evidence in a digital facsimile of the "Hengwrt...