Twenty-nine former students of Oxford Brookes University have rejected ex gratia payments of up to £5,000 each to drop their compensation claim after the university repeatedly failed to gain...
DIVORCE OR DIVERSIFY Does good teaching depend on research? Or should universities choose one or the other? The THES kicks off a new series ALSO Dame Margaret Anstee reviews two books about the...
Southampton University is to close and sell off its flagship widening participation campus in parallel with a major restructuring exercise. The New College site, formerly the La Sainte Union College...
Lecturers' union the Scottish Further and Higher Education Association is balloting its members over a merger with the Educational Institute of Scotland. The proposed "transfer of engagements" would...
Further education colleges are rushing into mergers seeking a "quick fix" that is not a realistic solution to their problems, according to new government research. The Department for Education and...
The number of applicants accepted on higher education courses is 2.5 per cent up on last year, the Universities and Colleges Admission Service reported this week. About 10,000 students had their...
Recovering drug addicts offered degree shortcut Glasgow Caledonian University is offering recovering drug addicts the chance to offset formal study in the preliminary stages of a social...
Caroline Davis looks at the university city of Norwich There is an old Norfolk saying, "people in Norfolk do things different", and so when the University of East Anglia was established in Norwich 40...
A European investigation of students' information and communications skills has buried the myth that men are more confident than women about using computers. The Survey of European Universities...
Students can gain degrees after completing as little as a third of their courses by paying universities to assess their life experiences and offset them against teaching and assessment. The Quality...
Stephen Quirke's online project will let students hear the words of the ancient Egyptians. The internet - good or bad? Some academics love the cheap instant access to information, opinions and images...
The foundation degree is a hit, writes Henry Seaton, but it is still tainted by the nomenclature of further and higher education. "It'll be alright; don't ask me how; it just will," predict Pinter's...
Private universities are a valuable asset to any country if they are regulated appropriately, says Roger King. Governments everywhere regard a robust and growing higher education system as essential...
Wednesday My work supports that of lawyers defending those on trial for their lives. I research cases, visit clients and interview their families to find evidence, explanation and mitigation. With my...
Peter Knight, the maverick vice-chancellor of the University of Central England, has invited shadow education secretary Damien Green and his higher education spokesman Tim Boswell to spend a week at...