Radical proposals to axe tuition fees and boost student support in Northern Ireland would cost more than £50 million. Esmond Birnie, chairman of the Northern Ireland Assembly committee for...
University departments will be able to set the doctoral student stipend rates for some funded research students from October next year. The Engineering and Physical Science Research Council has...
Lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks will hear evidence that government policies are failing to remove barriers to learning among 16-year-olds. Academics will use a conference next month to...
Henry McLeish, the Scottish Labour Party's new interim leader, was expected to be elected first minister by the Scottish Parliament yesterday, seeing off a challenge from John Swinney, leader of the...
Government ought to provide seedcorn money to universities to help them set up professional student recruitment offices, a senior MP said this week. Barry Sheerman, chairman of the House of Commons...
College principals are ready to campaign to scrap the current funding system, say their leaders. The Standing Conference of Principals, which represents non-university higher education providers,...
The University for Industry began the official rollout of its £84 million Learndirect network this week. At events across the United Kingdom, television celebrities signed up for courses...
Warwick University is offering research fellowships worth an extra £1,000 on top of the standard national award in a bid to attract more postgraduates into academia. The university's...
"It's like Daniel in the lion's den," came a stage whisper as Edinburgh University principal Sir Stewart Sutherland rose to address a staff meeting. However, he emerged unscathed...
BSE research was set back by up to two years when it lost out on funding after the scramble for resources sparked by government cuts in the late 1980s, it was claimed this week. Research into the...
The Warwick model The University of Warwick has teamed up with North Warwickshire and Hinckley College and Tile Hill College to propose a foundation degree in community enterprise and development,...
Staff are demanding an independent inquiry into the "scandalous" introduction of a flawed accounting system at Cambridge University. The THES reported that Capsa, the new online...
Did Middlesex University breach funding council regulations when it gagged former business school dean David Kirby? Professor Kirby left Middlesex in January this year, after a year's "...
It has been described by ministers as "a new qualification for a new century" that will "strengthen the links between higher education and the world of work"....
The key contender to succeed Henry McLeish as Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning is Wendy Alexander, dubbed "the pint-sized policy powerhouse". Noted for her...