Phil Baty reports on scrutiny of the president of Regent's College. The charity watchdog is investigating the payment of millions of pounds by Regent's College and its sister charity, the European...
Universities will come under pressure from the new access regulator and a "competitive market" to increase the bursaries they offer to poor students, according to Charles Clarke. The education...
Universities teaching part-time students will lose out when top-up fees are introduced, vice-chancellors have warned. The tuition fees for part-time students are not regulated by the state, but the...
A captain of industry has called on the government to introduce tax incentives for employers to help science and technology students cover the cost of top-up fees. Ian Smith, managing director of the...
Bursaries will be a lottery for poor students, adding to the complexity of the already convoluted student-support systems, Claire Callender of London South Bank University and author of the...
Nearly 100 "off-the-peg" national Btec foundation degrees were launched this week by the degree-awarding body Edexcel. The move was heralded as a key development in the creation of qualifications...
Will top-up fees cost the education secretary his Norwich seat? Paul Hill reports. The appeal of grants and bursaries to working-class families will be put to the test in Charles Clarke's Norwich...
Rebel Labour MPs who fail to see that their political future is tied to the standing of Tony Blair's government could count the cost at the ballot box, Charles Clarke has warned. In a dig at his...
Eurosceptic politicians are demanding the closure of "propagandist" pro-European centres at UK universities as soon as their European Union funding runs out. The UK Independence Party and other...
Aberdeen University has been accused of promoting "pseudo-science" by setting up the Centre for the Study of Spirituality, Health and Disability, writes Olga Wojtas. The National Secular Society,...
The traditional student post-pub visit to the kebab shop is to be immortalised in a television cartoon series produced by an animation company based in Dundee University's Springfield incubator unit...
A Russian academic at the centre of an investigation into what is believed to be the largest-ever theft of tuition fees was shot dead last month. Police said the killing bore the hallmarks of a...
Australia's universities face political uncertainty as they decide whether to use their imminent freedom to vary tuition fees under the Higher Education Contribution Scheme. From 2005, universities...
America's pre-eminent business school has launched an intensive course in ethics in the wake of widening corporate scandals, some involving its own alumni. Harvard Business School has had some kind...
South African students are continuing to have unprotected sex despite knowing about the country's devastating HIV-Aids epidemic, according to a University of Cape Town study. Research by Fiona Ross...