The North West Midlands is suffering a bout of unpopularity among prospective students according to an unofficial league table of applications that will dismay admissions officers in the region, A...
The foundations of scientific research are being threatened by a proposed new European directive that may lead to the patenting of all of nature, according to British scientists. In a letter to the...
THE Association of University Teachers has launched a general election offensive on 16 marginal constituencies, warning sitting MPs and parliamentary candidates that they ignore pay and other higher...
AROUND 800 colleges across England were this week asked to consider alternative funding measures in the wake of the Goverment's decision to axe the demand-led element of college funding. The Further...
SCHEMES to improve personal and academic support of students, develop postgraduate teaching skills and help peripatetic music staff are among 44 new projects designed to boost teaching. The Higher...
The number of universities registering formal interest in the Private Finance Initiative has grown by 19 per cent in the past three months. A total of 75 institutions have put forward upwards of 200...
Gillian Shephard, the secretary of state for education and employment, has defended the practice of appointing heads of institutions to the funding councils and of retaining Training and Enterprise...
Eight directors have been named for the new single quality agency for higher education: Ian Graham-Bryce, principal, University of Dundee; Haydn Ellis, pro-vice chancellor, University of Wales,...
Labour will abolish maintenance grants for students and reform the student loans scheme, shadow education and employment secretary David Blunkett told BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme set to be...
Government money allocated for BSE research would be "infinitely more useful" if it were ploughed into investigating other more common dementia conditions such as Alzheimer's, according to Bob...
All four UK higher education funding bodies have agreed to continue funding the Overseas Research Students Awards Scheme designed to attract the best research students from abroad. They will...
A LINGUIST has won the right to take Westminster University to an industrial tribunal over claims that it unlawfully discriminated against him by withholding his work from the research assessment...
Higher education institutions should be working in closer partnership with their local Training and Enterprise Councils, a report from the Higher Education Funding Council and Department for...
FORMER THES editor Peter Scott has been appointed as the next vice chancellor of Kingston University. Professor Scott's appointment was confirmed by governors on Monday afternoon. He will succeed...
Julia Hinde reports from the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science meeting in Seattle Scientists looking for extra-terrestrial life are turning their attentions to Jupiter's moon...