A group of students seeking tens of thousands of pounds in compensation after Oxford Brookes University failed to gain professional accreditation for their vocational degree have had their case...
High-flying students who gain first-class degrees enjoy their courses more than their lower-achieving classmates and do much less paid work, according to a survey of more than 4,000 undergraduates....
The National Health Service must do more to help students with mental health problems, a leading psychiatrist said this week. Mike Hobbs, chair of the Student Mental Health Working Group at the Royal...
Animal-rights extremists have made a whole generation of scientists too afraid to speak about their research. But they are being encouraged to fight back. Anna Fazackerley reports. Plans for a prize...
A higher education outpost was opened in Hastings, East Sussex, this week by Alan Johnson, the higher education minister. University Centre Hastings aims to consolidate higher education provision in...
The department for universities and further education in Northern Ireland could prove a casualty of the review of the Good Friday Agreement that began this week. The Reverend Ian Paisley's Democratic...
The isolation felt by academics at Iraqi universities will ease next week when 12 deans and other managers arrive in Birmingham for the first of a series of training programmes for administrators. A...
Clear evidence that education tends to attract people with a philanthropic bent has come from a study of charitable legacies in Northern Ireland since 1930. Educationists comprised the most generous...
My husband and I are scientists who emigrated from Europe to the US in the 1960s, returned to Europe for nine years in the 1990s and were then recruited by an American university as senior professors...
UK higher education faces a far more fundamental problem than top-up fees, writes Trevor Smith The higher education bill sneaked through its Commons second reading with a minuscule majority and its...
Part-time students play a crucial role in our economy and should be funded accordingly, writes David Latchman More than 40 per cent of students in higher education study part time, and it is...
The Trades Union Congress will intervene to calm hostilities between university trade unions after open warfare broke out this week over pay. Chris Kaufman, who chairs the joint trade unions'...
UK science risks stagnation unless it joins the push to send astronauts and robots to Mars, experts have claimed. Scientists meeting this week urged the research councils to unite to persuade the...
The RAE monster is breeding a new type of scientist and he's not pretty. Tim Birkhead tells you how to cope Imagine you have recently completed your PhD and just secured a postdoctoral fellowship....
Grants from an educational trust set up by City solicitors are enabling university law schools in the UK to compete for lecturers to shore up their faculties. Pat Leon reports At least three English...