The new Engineering Council was launched today amid warnings of a shake-up in engineering degrees that will lead to some courses losing their accreditation. The director general of the new council,...
Ulster University is taking the unusual step of using its honours degree ceremony to confer awards on seven educationists, in recognition of a profession it believes to be under "intense pressure"....
Liverpool and Manchester universities have pooled expertise in medicine, law and bioethics to produce an institute devoted to medical ethics. The institute is funded by the two universities and by...
Raymond Robertson, Scottish Office minister for education, has announced cuts in intakes to both primary and secondary teacher training courses, warning newly qualified teachers that there is...
Young people from disadvantaged inner-city areas who have no exam passes are more likely than ever to be staying on at school after the age of 16. According to a study by the Policy Studies Institute...
Nottingham Trent University's proposal to award the Chancellor of the Exchequer an honorary degree was under heated discussion this week as the academic board - which has already overwhelmingly...
A THES survey of vice chancellors suggests voting will be close as they decide today whether to endorse plans for a levy on new undergraduates in 1997. Plans to withdraw from outside activities,...
Reports that universities have increased their grades so much that the 2:1 is now more common than the 2:2 were confirmed this week, with the publication of national data on degree classes....
Students are witholding rent payments from Liverpool University after hall fees outstripped grants for the first time ever. Students are paying their rent into a rent strike account set up by the...
There was something incongruous yet deeply familiar, even comforting, about the press launch of the Campaign for Free Education's nominations for the forthcoming NUS National Executive elections....
QUESTION: Mr Robert Jackson: Will [my right hon. Friend] confirm that universities are, in law, private bodies, that their financial relations with their students are a matter for them to determine...
The THES conducted a poll of vice chancellors' opinions between January 22 and 31. The predictive ability of the results has to be qualified by the fact that 38 of the 104 Committee of Vice...
A church college run by a former member of the Equal Opportunities Commission is facing its third accusation of sexual discrimination. During a recent wave of redundancies Cheltenham and Gloucester...
A Stanford University institutes's attempt to microfilm the archives of the Soviet Union Communist party and certain branches of the Soviet government is threatened by a change in Russian law. During...
Where once Bertrand Russell led, the Rupert Murdoch professor of language and communication now follows. Simon Targett talks to the exponent of this year's BBC Reith lectures, Jean Aitchison True or...