Lobby groups line up to fight
As the higher education bill reaches its second reading on Tuesday, THES reporters weigh up the opposition and analyse the last-minute manoeuvring Universities are lining up to fight for changes to...
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Portillo switches tack to toe party line on top-ups
As the higher education bill reaches its second reading on Tuesday, THES reporters weigh up the opposition and analyse the last-minute manoeuvring Michael Portillo, the former Tory rebel who had been...
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Employers toy with golden hellos to ease student debt
Employers are preparing to offer more "golden hello" payments to graduate recruits and other financial incentives such as interest-free loans to help them recover from large debts accumulated in...
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Survey shows fees will be a deterrent
Almost two-thirds of students would would have chosen a different university if their first-choice institution had demanded tuition fees of £3,000, a survey revealed this week. The Unite Student...
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V-c says poor are put off by upfront burden but are not debt-averse
Labour MPs' fears that aversion to debt will deter children from poor families from going to university are groundless, according to Gordon Marshall, vice-chancellor of the University of Reading....
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Optimism is high, skill low
While most students are optimistic about their job prospects after graduation, few believe they have developed good business skills while at university, according to the Unite Student Living Report,...
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Do they deserve to be degrees?
The higher education bill has reheated the debate about non-traditional courses, Tony Tysome reports The government's plans to increase the number of student places, bring in top-up fees and relax...
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'Mickey Mouse? It left me feeling more than a little goofy'
The THES sent reporter Tony Tysome to Birmingham University to judge whether he thought the applied golf management degree was a Mickey Mouse course. This is how he found it. The materials science...
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Intellectual and practical: The study of swinging, singing, gaming and snipping
Applied golf management studies, Birmingham University Former bank manager Jonathan Wright is not the sort of man to take unnecessary risks, so when he decided to take a place on Birmingham's golf...
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'The students are not long-haired beach bums'
Surf science and technology, Plymouth University Marine studies lecturer Malcolm Findlay is fed up with politicians who take cheap shots at the degree he helped to create when they have not looked...
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New v-c at London Met
Brian Roper has been appointed vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, which was created by the merger of the University of North London and London Guildhall University in 2002. Mr Roper,...
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Bursaries for volunteers
Imperial College London will offer annual £1,500 bursaries to 20 student volunteers supporting pupils in local primary and secondary schools. The students will help teach subjects such as science,...
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Grilling for Sainsbury
Science minister Lord Sainsbury has agreed to subject himself to regular grillings by the influential Commons' science and technology committee. The committee announced the launch of a "science...
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Hospital body renamed
University hospitals have set up a body to represent themselves. The Association of UK University Hospitals will take over from the UK University Hospitals Forum, which has 37 members, and will hold...
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DNA pioneer honoured
Sir Alec Jeffreys, DNA genetic fingerprinting pioneer, is to be given an international accolade. Professor Jeffreys, who is the Royal Society Wolfson professor in the department of genetics at...