Videotaping or recording interviews may be the only way to protect tutors against accusations of bias from failed students and their families, according to the master of the Cambridge college...
Peter Gregson, the 46-year-old deputy vice-chancellor of Southampton University, will be the next vice-chancellor of Queen's University Belfast. He will succeed Sir George Bain, vice-chancellor since...
Geoff Hall , former director of learning programmes at the Learning and Skills Council, has been appointed principal and chief executive of New College Nottingham. The University of Oxford has...
University vice-chancellors are engaged in a desperate battle to get the higher education bill through a "knife-edge" vote at its second reading. Universities UK is demanding unity from all member...
Science deans this week warned Charles Clarke, the education secretary, that allowing popular non-science degrees to charge lower fees than unpopular science courses could cause irreversible damage....
A former paratrooper who went from hating science at school to becoming a lecturer in quantum chemical dynamics says he would not have gone to university if top-up fees were in place. Keith Hughes,...
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Most Welsh Labour MPs are likely to vote against the higher education bill and will resist being "bought off" by the offer of devolved powers for Wales over student support, a leading rebel has...
The percentage of pupils gaining five or more GCSEs at grades A* to C has climbed 1.3 per cent to 52.9 per cent, David Miliband, schools minister, said this week. In specialist schools 56.7 per cent...
The first Iraqis to study at British universities under the prestigious Chevening scholarship scheme since 1993 arrived in the UK this week to pursue specialist training in oil industry-related...
A robot scientist that formulates theories, devises experiments and interprets results has been built by British academics. Ross King, professor of computer science at the University of Wales,...
A graph in last week's THES suggesting that 60 per cent of Scottish higher education was delivered in the further education sector was inaccurate. On a headcount basis, 23.5 per cent of HE students...
The Conservatives will adhere to a pledge to abolish top-up fees despite promising a review of their higher education policy. In an interview with The THES , Tim Yeo, the shadow health and education...
The higher education bill laid before Parliament last week sets out the legislative changes needed to introduce variable tuition fees, abolish upfront fees and overhaul the system for student...
Income to universities An analysis of the bill by the Higher Education Policy Institute (Hepi) shows that by 2008 the average level of funding received by universities per student will have increased...