Proposals for universities to provide much more detailed information about course content, academic staff and student views could lead to a massive surge in complaints that will put pressure on the...
The government has yet to take "the crucial step" in setting the value of public-sector pensions covering up to 200,000 staff in former polytechnics, according to an academic who advised a government...
STFC commits to explore options to ameliorate long-term effects of reductions. Paul Jump reports
Scholar echoes Cambridge Assessment's call for A-level intervention. Paul Jump reports
Medical trainingShort-term regimen for fees painThe government has announced temporary measures for medical students who had feared they would have to pay up front to meet increases to tuition fees...
Institution rejects 'malicious' allegations, but accuser is puzzled. Paul Jump reports
We should not be so dismissive of back-office staff, for not only are they vital to the academy, they are human, Paul Greatrix says
GatesheadMaurizio AnzeriThe Italian-born, London-based artist Maurizio Anzeri works with an unusual combination of found photographs and embroidery. For this exhibition at the Baltic Centre for...
Credit: Graham Baring/Image courtesy of GV Art & the ArtistArt & Science: Merging Art & Science to Make a Revolutionary New Art MovementGV Art, LondonDavide Angheleddu's corroded bronze...
Fears that the changes announced in the government White Paper on higher education might lead to Poppleton becoming the most squeezed university in England have been dismissed by our vice-chancellor....
Ministers devising education policy are more in need of L-plates than the students they would put in the driving seat
Practising scientists will edit an open-access title backed by three major research funders. Paul Jump reports
New government website lists comparative data, but careful interpretation is needed, writes Jon Marcus
Thom Brooks is living the American Dream, not in the US itself but among the Geordies. And unlike Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, coming to the UK feels like a journey to the future, not the past...
• Government ministers have long argued that student loans do not constitute debt in the usual sense because they are paid off only by graduates earning good salaries. But the message seems not to...