(Photograph) - Cambridge University launched a poster campaign this week (above) designed to "break down the stereotypes" and encourage more people from state schools and ethnic minorities to apply....
MOVES to curb manipulation of universities' research records are under way. The Higher Education Funding Council for England will next week publish a consultation document on the research assessment...
THE government has admitted that the percentage of school-leavers applying to go to university is down, undermining repeated claims that tuition fees and scrapping maintenance grants are no deterrent...
COMPULSORY licences for lecturers, enabling them to teach in higher education, have been dropped following fierce opposition from elite universities. The new Institute of Learning and Teaching...
Bolton Institute's bid for a university title has been put on ice by David Blunkett, secretary of state for education and employment. He has accepted that "evidence is not yet clear" that standards...
Universities have the power to ban groups or organisations that have in the past repeatedly or flagrantly violated rules protecting freedom of speech, says a report from the Committee of Vice-...
Monsanto, the US-based biotechnology firm at the centre of the storm over genetically modified products, told the House of Lords committee looking into the regulation of genetic modification in...
The Kennedy committee on widening participation in further education reconvened this week, a year after it reported, to warn the government that more work must be done. The group said it would not...
The European Parliament has expressed "serious reservations" over the budget for the Framework Vprogramme. Moves by the Council of Ministers to single out research policy and set spending...
Oxford University is challenging Cambridge's claim to be Britain's leading centre for high technology industry. A new report from Cambridge found that Oxfordshire's 730 high-tech companies employ 26,...
Three Oxford colleges have received a total of Pounds 1,820,000 in extra money from the College Contributions Fund, which redistributes cash between the university's richer and poorer colleges....
Undergraduate physics was dealt another blow this week as Manchester Metropolitan University decided to scrap its degree course with the loss of 14 jobs. "The news came out of the blue," said John...
Submissions to the Independent Review Committee on pay and conditions for higher education staff, recommended by Dearing and chaired by Sir Michael Bett, were due in this week. The committee will...
IT IS unacceptable that universities spend hundreds of thousands of pounds of public money on legal fees to fight student and staff disputes without proper accountability, the Campaign for Academic...
The European Space Agency and the European Union this week agreed a resolution on greater collaboration. They agreed to work more closely in telecommunications, navigation and Earth observation.