Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone this week failed to rule out the introduction of top-up fees during the next parliament. During a session of the Commons' select committee on education,...
Oxford University has had to make cuts of Pounds 9 million this year to offset costs caused in part by the research assessment exercise. In preparation for next year's exercise, the university had...
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad has officially launched the country's fifth private university. University Tenaga Nasional was formally invited to upgrade to university status in 1997.
Uruguayan president Jorge Batlle has rejected union demands for a 1.5 per cent increase in the national education budget and told universities to help generate their own income to qualify for higher...
Melbourne Three separate research reports over the past five months have documented the worsening state of Australian academe since the conservative government of prime minister John Howard was...
Boston Restrictions passed by the US Congress in the wake of spy scares have interrupted seemingly innocent space research involving foreign students and prompted demands that the new rules be...
University medical schools face a second wave of expansion with up to 1,000 more student doctors, it was announced this week. Tony Blair was due to make a statement on the National Plan for the...
New figures show that much of the government's ring-fenced funding for further education will benefit less than a fifth of further education students, writes Tony Tysome. Millions of extra pounds are...
Industry training chiefs this week accused Nottingham Trent University of cashing in on foundation degrees before the official launch of the government's proposed new qualification. Andy Powell,...
Further education faces the daunting task of bringing about a fivefold increase in its overseas recruitment rate if it is to achieve government targets, it emerged this week. New figures from the...
Universities and colleges are rushing to restructure their four-year bachelor of education degrees, as the introduction of salaries for postgraduate trainees hits applications. Figures out last week...
University education departments concentrate so much on schools that they virtually ignore higher education as an area for research, according to Stephen Rowland, director of the Higher Education...
(Photograph) - Scottish showcase: Nicol Stephen, Scotland's deputy minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, was this week spreading the word to school pupils about Scotland's proposed student...
Ministers have promised tougher further education inspections following a report that says more than half of work-based learning needs significant improvement. Schools inspectorate Ofsted, which will...
Union leaders renewed threats of industrial action at Sheffield College this week, as dozens of staff received official letters warning them they might lose their jobs, writes Tony Tysome. Officials...