(Photograph) - Eleven-year-old electronics wizard, Jamie Baxter Martin, the youngest-ever student at Plymouth University, has celebrated his third success in a row after being awarded a grade B GCSE...
Universities had the highest failure rate for activities run during National Science Week last March, says a report released this week. But the week overall was an "outstanding success". The week, "...
Plans for piloting the summer semester at Liverpool John Moores could still be rejected in whole or in part by the university's academic board, writes David Charter. The board was not consulted in...
The Scottish Vocational Education Council was incorrectly described as the Scottish Vocational Educational Committee in an article by Ann Macleod in last week's THES.
A 2.7 per cent pay offer has been accepted in a ballot of members of the Association of University and College Lecturers representing staff in the new universities and colleges of higher education. "...
Twenty further education colleges were disrupted by strikes during enrolment this week as lecturers campaigned against new contracts. Strikes were avoided at the last minute at Handsworth, Shrewsbury...
A Pounds 3.5 million satellite designed and built by Surrey University engineers for Chile has been declared lost in space after it failed to detach from a Ukranian spacecraft after its launch last...
The union of the two main bodies representing further and higher education colleges, the Association for Collegesc and the Colleges Employers Forum, came a step nearer this week when both agreed to...
The University of Greenwich is expected to make a multimillion pound bid for the Royal Naval College, put up for sale this week. The university says it is willing to take over the Pounds 1 million...
The Educational Institute of Scotland is to pursue unfair dismissal claims on behalf of three academics made compulsorily redundant at Jewel and Esk Valley College. The union says it does not accept...
Student fare may be humble, but the price of the average undergraduate's gastronomic experiments is potentially astronomic. The burned burger and the singed sausage, trademark of the novice self-...
The University of Wales has suspended its involvement in an archaeological dig in Bulgaria after a senior lecturer was accused of military espionage and expelled. Douglass Bailey, an American who...
Vice chancellors who have been knighted earn 31 per cent more than those without public honours, according to a report by economists on top academics' pay. It predicts that the new openness about...
(Photograph) - Catching on: a passer-by admires a model of a Rolls-Royce for the 21st century made by Sean Henstridge, a graduate from the MA automotive design course at Coventry University, whose...
Scientists are polarised about possible environmental damage caused by French nuclear tests such as Tuesday's at Mururoa atoll in the Pacific. Most scientists think that the explosion will create an...