Poor students are four times less likely to go to university than their better-off counterparts who are more relaxed about incurring debts, according to new research that raises big questions about...
An Oxford academic is to be the new secretary-general of the Association of Commonwealth Universities. John Rowett, chief executive of the Rhodes Trust, will succeed Canadian Michael Gibbons when he...
Market-obsessed scientific publishers are ignoring the interests of science and the public, the Wellcome Trust has said. The trust published an independent analysis of the £22 billion research-...
Journalism students at the University of Westminster won all three BBC awards for up-and-coming investigative journalists. The gold award went to Samantha Washington and Phillip Kemp for their...
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics has begun a consultation on the use of genetically modified animals in research. Nearly a quarter of animal experiments last year used GM animals, ten times more...
A Centre for Excellence in Leadership that will train college principals, chief executives and managers in the post-16 sector opened yesterday. It is run by a partnership led by Lancaster University...
Esso, the oil giant owned by ExxonMobil, has denied claims that it has been driven out of the university recruitment milkround. Student pressure group People and Planet has claimed victory in a two-...
Edinburgh University has installed an £88,000 ultrasound scanner to help treat pets. It is the first in Europe to be used on small animals. Funding was raised by sponsored dog walks and other charity...
The £120 million said by PricewaterhouseCoopers to be owed to UK universities consists mainly of bad debt from commercial activities, not student debt as reported last week. Contrary to last week's...
Foundation degrees are proving a hit with students and institutions, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service, which will bolster the government's drive to expand...
Identical twins Ramon and Josef Gasewicz left work on a building site to take up places on a popular-music foundation degree course, writes Tony Tysome. Before joining the course at Colchester...
New grammar schools will be established in Tory-controlled areas in a bid to widen participation in higher education, shadow further and higher education minister Tim Boswell said this week. The...
The radically altered picture of graduate employment prospects that emerged from the reclassification of jobs for league tables published in The THES last spring was no flash in the pan, a more...
Almost three-quarters of students starting university this year are clueless about their career after graduating, according to new research. A significant proportion was heading for low-paid casual...
Universities will be forced to sign up to the government's planned new teaching quality academy despite widespread opposition, writes Phil Baty. The Higher Education Funding Council for England was...