In an innovative approach to widening participation, the University of Birmingham approaches state schools and asks them to recommend pupils who might benefit from higher education, writes Alison...
The Welsh Assembly may decide against appointing an access regulator for higher education, it emerged this week. Assembly education minister Jane Davidson has asked the Higher Education Funding...
The 70 centres of teaching excellence proposed in the white paper on higher education could be theme-based regional consortia of universities, colleges or departments, according to the Higher...
The salaries of Scottish researchers are too low despite better levels of university funding since devolution, according to a science agenda for Scotland published this week. It says that...
The UK's neutron centre at the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory is to receive more than £100 million, the Department of Trade and Industry has announced. The money will pay for a wing at the Isis...
Brunel, Nottingham and Ulster universities are to set up a £6.3 million Multidisciplinary Assessment of Technology Centre for Healthcare to improve medical research and development exploitation. The...
Anglia Polytechnic University this week launched a postgraduate medical academy. The Centre for Postgraduate Medical Education will offer accredited courses for doctors, nurses and other healthcare...
Loughborough University has purchased a £35.5 million technology park. The 163-acre site, bought from Advantica Technologies, will allow the university to increase postgraduate and research student...
Northumbria University has removed anti-war material from the internet site of one of its leading psychology academics after warning that his messages could be offensive to students who support the...
The government has set Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel University, the task of identifying the relative merits of university applicants. Professor Schwartz and his team, which has yet to...
Mismanagement by the National Council for Education and Training Wales has caused "significant damage" to its reputation and that of the Welsh National Assembly, a report from the assembly's audit...
Student loans in Northern Ireland were financed by England's Department for Education and Skills, an Audit Office report says. The mistake happened because the Student Loans Company registered...
Imperial College London has borrowed £23 million from the European Investment Bank in order to bring in three times as much in government cash. The college had secured funding from the Science...
The war in Iraq is likely to transform scholarly thinking on politics for years to come, academics said this week. Popular theories in the areas of international relations, international security and...
The Cambridge MIT Institute has launched a new strategy, halfway into its initial five-year lifespan. This week's statement follows a mid-term review carried out by new executive directors Michael...