The subject panels judging university research have made proposals on assessment, but they are still unsure about how to assess research on teaching their subjects. Until now research into the...
Alan Thomson reports from the Labour Party conference in Bournemouth this week Malcolm Wicks could not have put it better. Just hours after Tony Blair's love-it-or-loathe-it speech, the newest...
Environmental watchdogs have criticised universities' "arrogance" about health and safety. The warning came as Cambridge University pleaded guilty to three criminal charges of losing a package of...
(Photograph) - Students started work this week at Greenwich University's new Pounds 20 million campus, on the site of the old Royal Naval College. Teaching is based in Queen Anne Court, built by Sir...
Uniform rules designed to end "wide variations" in the roles, responsibilities and powers of universities' external examiners are to be imposed by 2001 amid concerns that some universities are using...
(Photograph) - Sophie Clapp, a social anthropology student at St Andrews University, spends her final days of summer holiday at the Sorley Tunnel adventure farm in Loddiswell, Devon, where she has...
Universities must demonstrate a good employment record for past students if they want to attract cash for more undergraduates. Funding chiefs are paying more attention to student employability in...
Students who have unpaid tuition fee debts from last year are either coughing up or just not trying to enrol for their second year. Press coverage coupled with warning letters have encouraged...
The University of Warwick is to offer scholarships following concern that the abolition of maintenance grants has deterred students from poorer backgrounds. Scholarships would aid the university to...
Robin Pearson, the Hull University lecturer who spied for the East Germans for 12 years, has not shown up for the start of the new academic term. A university spokesman said that Dr Pearson was on...
Professional societies are under threat from new technology. But, Harriet Swain says, they could turn a threat into an advantage In their early days, learned and professional societies could...
Along with the rather dull recreations of music, running and reading he lists in Who's Who, Trevor Phillips includes "mischief". It is not a hobby automatically associated with the Blairite,...
British further and higher education needs a new "brand image"according to an international survey. The sector needs to sell itself as modern, diverse, friendly and good value for money if it is to...
Graduation ceremonies are no longer just a celebration of success, they are the major marketing event of the year. And academics have a job to do. First they must sit on the platform and clap...
Scotland's independent inquiry into student finance is to ask qualified young people who opted not to go into higher education why they made that decision. The inquiry, chaired by lawyer Andrew Cubie...