I work as a senior house officer in a busy district general hospital in London. It is nearly two years since I qualified as a hospital doctor. Educated at a northern comprehensive, I got my A levels...
Colleges are havens for illegal immigrants and are being targeted by "human smugglers" who provide forged documents to enrol bogus overseas students, British diplomats have warned. The "very worrying...
Universities are set to exploit relaxed work rules for foreign students when recruiting. To meet competition from the United States and Australia, the government has promised to streamline visa and...
The Scottish Parliament is expected to ratify proposals for the committee of inquiry into student support a week today just before its two-month summer recess. The committee, set to have its first...
National Traineeships, which replaced the failed Youth Training programme two years ago, are meeting the needs of a large number of employers, according to a new survey. It found that 89 per cent of...
Tangible evidence of Scotland's new politics has emerged with John Swinney, deputy leader of the Scottish National Party, chairing the powerful enterprise and lifelong learning committee, rather than...
East Devon College has joined the growing list of colleges deemed by inspectors to have "unsatisfactory" management, governance and quality assurance. Inspectors from the Further Education Funding...
Investors in People UK, the business training standard set up in 1993, is playing an important role in supporting the government's National Learning Targets, according to a new review of its...
The University of London has completed a reorganisation that will create one of the strongest centres of Jewish study in Europe. The London School of Jewish Studies has completed an association...
Leaders of the world's industrial nations have signed a charter outlining their common goals on lifelong learning. G8 members signed the charter at their recent summit in Germany. It says that...
One of the biggest ventures so far in online scholarly publishing has just been launched by an international grouping of university libraries and the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS...
Students from five London colleges are joining forces to produce a "Rough Guide to Occupation", giving activists in higher education institutions tips on staging sit-ins. The guide, produced by...
Most students would rather hold down a part-time job than live at home, according to a survey by the Institute of Employment Studies. Tony Higgins, UCAS chief executive, predicted a split with...
Three new joint medical schools were given the nod by funding chiefs this week. The programmes (Durham with Newcastle, Keele with Manchester, and Warwick with Leicester universities) are part of an...
Research councils are wasting up to a quarter of the money they spend on equipment, according to the public spending watchdog. The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council could save Pounds...