The government is considering pumping millions of pounds into universities and regional associations playing a crucial role in supporting the rapidly growing biotechnology industry. According to...
Fears that ministers will have a direct hand in setting the research agenda at Cambridge University were exacerbated with confirmation that the Pounds 68 million of government funds for Cambridge's...
The next research assessment exercise should be abandoned to make way for a more modern and dynamic research funding system, a vice-chancellor argued at a national conference this week. Peter Knight...
The University of East Anglia has expressed its disgust at an attempt by a book publishing company to use an attempted rape on campus to sell a new novel. Pulp Books is claiming "life eerily imitates...
(Photograph) - Nursing ambitions: Alexandra Volodina, Marina Tosutsunava, Olga Shilinka, Marina Boykova and Marina Gaeva celebrate being the first nurses from Russia to achieve a nursing degree. They...
Scottish universities and colleges have a significant impact on their country's economy and are relatively competitive in winning lucrative research contracts compared with other institutions in the...
Widening participation strategies for further and higher education have increased the gap in achievement between the poorest in society and the better-off majority, according to a new report. The...
A growing number of universities are targeting primary school pupils as potential undergraduates as selectors struggle to fill courses. But will their attempts to raise the aspirations of inner-city...
A scheme to target school-children for university places run by the University of Newcastle upon Tyne was promised Pounds 1.7 million this week. It was one of 70 projects to raise participation by...
Medical schools' admissions policies are being revised in response to mounting evidence that there is an unwitting bias towards women and whites. Research by David James, admissions sub-dean at...
Race equality watchdogs have urged universities and colleges to move faster on opening employment opportunities so that Britain could have its first black vice-chancellor within five years. The...
Worcester University College is facing a challenge from one of its graduates who claims poor course management robbed him of a first-class degree, writes Tony Tysome. Symon Garfield had notched up...
English universities offering Chinese studies received Pounds 5 million this week following Foreign and Commonwealth Office concern at the poor state of such courses. Firms in the Midlands, meanwhile...
Cambridge University dons may be forced to do some teacher training following criticism that their research too often comes first. Cambridge's governing general board is consulting staff on plans to...
Swansea University attracted a postgraduate student from the United States to a Pounds 20,000 doctorate programme with misleading claims that it had plenty of academics who would make "perfect"...