Part-timers affect league table position
* Universities with a high proportion of part-time students could suffer under plans to drop part-timers from one of the performance indicators, vice-chancellors have warned. The funding councils...
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GEC takes its pick of masters' crop
GEC is developing a masters degree for all its new graduate employees in collaboration with universities worldwide. The University of Warwick will accredit modules developed by other universities,...
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Fine arts students' fury over degree delay
Margaret Ewing, SNP MSP for Moray, is championing the cause of 17 art students who have been "devastated" to discover they cannot continue their course to degree level at Moray College. They had...
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Hats off
(Photograph) - Hats off: more than 800 students were presented with degrees from Ripon and York College, University of Leeds, at York Minster this week
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Minister signals shake-up
DURBAN Significant changes to higher education have been signalled by South Africa's new education minister, Kader Asmal, including possible closures and mergers for some institutions and new...
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Entrepreneurs put on research cap
Specialist posts, sabbaticals and secondments for academics and captains of industry and staff training have emerged as Scottish university strategies to exploit the commercial potential of research...
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Community repair work neglected
Northern Ireland's further and higher education institutions could do more to combat sectarianism, according to a study launched this week. The study by Quinliven/Gilpin Black Consultancy was...
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King's College buys Public Record Office
King's College London is buying the former Public Record Office in Chancery Lane in a multimillion pound deal. It has been granted planning permission to convert the Grade II-listed 19th-century...
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A rough guide to anarchy
Encyclopedia of Political Anarchy - The Anarchists in the Spanish Civil War
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First Impressions
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a sailor who taught himself English and became a famous novelist: "There is, as every schoolboy knows...
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Another book that you won't have time to read
Time Management for Academics
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Dewey-eyed about gentlemen
Liberal Anxieties and Liberal Education
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Of riddles wrapped in Enigmas
The Code Book
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Romance is not dead
An Oxford Companion the the Romantic Age
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On the road of science
America's Scientific Treasures