A move to create a private "British University" in Thailand has been frozen by the pull-out of backers hit by the country's currency crisis. Nottingham and Exeter universities, chosen by the Thai and...
Fifteen of Britain's key academic and industrial scientists went to Downing Street to discuss science with ministers this week. A possible new science white paper was discussed as ministers and...
Universities can no longer be "ivory towers" and must become "engines of economic growth", said Peter Mandelson, secretary of state for trade and industry, outlining the thinking behind the...
* Higher education institutions have around Pounds 90 less to spend per student this year than they did five years ago, in spite of tuition fee charges. Figures released by Parliament last week show...
Lecturers will begin a pay round for a second year without knowing the future shape of pay and conditions in the sector because of delays to the Bett report. Sir Ron Dearing originally recommended...
The Wellcome Trust has taken the offensive in the public debate over animal experimentation by writing to the government to emphasise the need for continued vivisection. Michael Dexter (pictured),...
Public grants to Scottish higher education will grow by a fifth over the next three years, it was revealed this week. The main state grant-in-aid to the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council will...
Scotland's universities and colleges will have a key role to play in helping the new Scottish Parliament make decisions about the future of the country, the Committee of Scottish Higher Education...
The London School of Economics has given final approval to a 3.5 per cent increase in postgraduate tuition fees. Last Friday, a sub-committee of the LSE's standing committee finally approved a...
Radical reform of teaching must set rigorous standards but give the profession control over its own development, a report argues. The report, from think-tank Demos, says that reforms contained in the...
Modern Apprenticeships are proving popular among young people from a wide variety of backgrounds, education secretary David Blunkett claimed as the results of two national surveys were published last...
Nearly a third of people to benefit so far from the government's New Deal for the unemployed have chosen to go into full-time education and training. Of the 69,340 people who took up one of the four...
Peter Rolfe, formerly head of Keele's hospital-based bioengineering and medical physics department, was this week charged jointly with former administrator Carol Benmakroha of conspiracy to defraud...
Hard-sell techniques used for commodities like soap powder and insurance are just as successful in attracting people to learning, a study has found. A project, run jointly by the Institute for Public...
The dual support system of funding research could be threatened by a lack of balance between the two funding legs. Cash is being concentrated on new buildings and state-of-the-art equipment, but the...