Drastic change and debts may prove discouraging
Hannah Osunsina believes black students' relatively poor degree performance reflects an ambivalent attitude to university. Ms Osunsina, who is about to enter her second year in law at Bedfordshire...
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£3m for adult learning
Salford University has been awarded almost £3 million to prepare the ground for the Government's commitment to a massive increase in the number of adults with higher-level skills, as set out in the...
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Girls favour university
Boys from state schools are less interested in going to university than girls at the same schools, according to a report from the Sutton Trust charity. The report, which is based on a survey of 2,400...
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Overdraft campaign
A student revolt against HSBC bank is gathering momentum, with nearly 3,000 joining a social network campaign group over the bank's decision to end interest-free graduate overdrafts. Thousands of...
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Infant skills static
The Government's early-years education policies have made no impact, according to new research. Despite the introduction of several initiatives over the past decade, there has been no improvement in...
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Headed for frustration
Academics agree to become heads of department hoping to gain more time for their own research but find themselves miserable and overworked trying to manage people and timetables, the British...
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£35m Strathclyde plan
Strathclyde University is to build a £35 million drug research centre at its Glasgow city centre site. The university will spend £ million on the Strathclyde Institute of Pharmacy and Biomedical...
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Bold statement
A student has won a place at university after writing her application on a shop wall. Lara Roberts, 19, painted her personal statement in a derelict shopping centre before photographing it to send...
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Stress in new mothers
Mothers who cradle their baby to their right-hand side are displaying signs of extreme stress that could lead to depression, a Durham University study has suggested. The Durham researchers suggest...
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Former polytechnics spread their wings
Fifteen years after John Major turned polys into 'new universities', the diversity that grew out of that change is breeding success. Tony Tysome, who reported on the reforms at the time, takes stock...
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Bournemouth targets 'the professionals'
In the two years since he joined Bournemouth University, Paul Curran has acquired a reputation as one of the most controversial vice-chancellors in the sector. Sally Hunt, general secretary of the...
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'I feel lucky. I do not want to waste my opportunity'
Andrew Armour is very content. The physics lecturer at Nottingham University has a happy home life and a satisfying career, but there is a lot more to it than that. "I have no problem that is likely...
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Sporting academics
Leeds Metropolitan University has become the official education partner of Leeds United Ladies FC, the first partnership of its kind between a university and a club in the FA Tesco Women's Premier...
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Lecturer sets sail
A creative-writing lecturer from the University of Central England in Birmingham will compete next month in the IFDS Disabled Sailing World Championships. Jackie Gay and sailing partner Allan Smith...
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Prize for print history
David Finkelstein has won the the second annual Robert Colby Memorial Book Prize. Professor Finkelstein, Queen Margaret University research professor of media and print culture, won the $3,000 award...