The investigation into financial irregularities at Bretton Hall moved up a gear this week with the suspension of principal and chief executive Gordon Bell and academic director Ron George. The...
Liverpool University's Guild of Students has been asked to amend a Viz-style information leaflet for freshers, after local councillors complained that it did not reflect the city's real issues,...
Scottish higher education admissions staff were facing turmoil this week as a result of the Scottish Qualifications Authority's delay in issuing applicants' Higher examination results. This year's...
It is a sad state of affairs that Madsen Pirie feels it necessary to explain that 5 per cent means "one in 20". Or was this an interpolation by a copy editor with an accurate assessment of The THES...
Funding chiefs are debating whether to launch an investigation into claims that the University of Sheffield's School of East Asian studies unjustly improved its rating in the 1996 research assessment...
The Queen has ordered Exeter University to set up a grievance committee to hear complaints from Avril Henry, a professor whose research was abandoned because it was ineligible for the research...
An Edinburgh University academic is appealing against dismissal after an internal university tribunal found him guilty of sexually harassing students. James Carrier, who was appointed reader in...
Government proposals for a new regulatory body for health professionals will not protect the public, say professional bodies. The government plans to replace the Council for Professions Supplementary...
Up to a third of Northern Ireland's intending 2000 university entrants have not yet applied for loans, Northern Ireland's minister for higher and further education, training and employment has...
Rail travel across the country could become safer, thanks to a confidential reporting system pioneered by Strathclyde University, writes Olga Wojtas. The national scheme is based on the Confidential...
Conservationists are fighting a Durham college's plan to improve access to a local church that it uses as a chapel because it could disturb the graves of the Queen Mother's ancestors, writes Nigel...
Ministers have had to withdraw misleading information about individual learning accounts after The THES pointed out that account-holders had been given the false impression that they were entitled to...
A life on the ocean waves will be "free" for researchers. The Natural Environment Research Council is so concerned at the dramatic decline in demand for time on its ships that it is going to provide...
Why are some prisons cutting classroom budgets when education has been shown to prevent re-offending? Claire Sanders looks at what the chief inspector of prisons has to say When General Sir David...
Whatever happened to the proposals made in the Bett report? asks Chris Kaufman. Hostilities have been declared between university staff and employers after attempts to impose pay "awards" before...