Undergraduates will be guaranteed a minimum of ten hours' contact time with tutors each week across all second and third-year courses at Lancaster University, after calls for more teaching time from...
'Pragmatic' focus will give union more influence in tuition debate, new president tells Rebecca Attwood
Students have chosen a new president to lead the National Union of Students in the run-up to next year's review of top-up fees.Wes Streeting, former president of the University of Cambridge student...
Global competition is catching up, first annual meeting of researchers warns. Zoe Corbyn reports
Stephen Minger was in China on business when he heard the news last week that human-animal hybrid embryos had been created for the first time in the UK.The team that did the work, which is based at...
University fields an all-male line-up in an expanded senior team. Melanie Newman reports
A seven-year campaign to prevent the first compulsory redundancy at King's College London has come to an end with an out-of-court settlement.The case had become a cause celebre for the local branch...
Students from non-university families less likely to stay on after graduation. Rebecca Attwood reportsWidening participation should not stop once students enter higher education, according to new...
The Scottish Government is being urged to withdraw universities from the "educationally damaging" research assessment exercise, which is accused of undermining Scotland's new models of co-operative...
Delegates to the University and College Union Scotland congress passed an emergency motion condemning proposed job cuts at Keele University's School of Economic and Management Studies. Alastair...
Majority of academics fear funding pressures and targets will harm scholarly work. John Gill reports
Innovation policy must focus less on edicts from central Government and more on enabling free thinkers to collaborate, David Cameron has said.The Conservative Party leader, speaking last week at an...
Funding changes rescheduled to give more time to pilot new metrics-based system, writes Zoe Corbyn
- As the London mayoral race warmed up with reports of Tory candidate and former Shadow Higher Education Minister Boris Johnson's encounters with drugs as a student at Oxford, and coverage of the...
Eastwood urges institutions to show imagination and prosper on their own terms. John Gill reports