Lecturers' leaders are planning an academic boycott of London Metropolitan University as industrial relations there collapse. Staff have been told that they will have their salaries stopped if they...
Fellows at King's College, Cambridge, have closed ranks over reports that they have turned down distinguished Palestinian-born academic Edward Said for an honorary fellowship. The college refused to...
The Conservative Party should back the government's plans for higher education and end the agony of opposition policy for opposition's sake, a former Tory minister said this week. Robert Jackson, who...
This week's bridge-building summit between the UK and France over Iraq produced one spectacular success in the form of a groundbreaking agreement to create the first cross-Channel university, writes...
Cambridge University could be excluded from the government's elite tier of research universities after academics dismissed proposals to reform the way the institution is run. Vice-chancellor Alec...
The first concrete evidence that poorer students are undermining their academic performance by working during term time emerged at a Universities UK seminar on debt this week. Higher education...
Hundreds of students and recent graduates are seeking to declare themselves bankrupt in a bid to write off their student debt, the National Union of Students said this week. Since it emerged this...
Almost £100 million of fraudulent or irregular payments could have been made under the disastrous Individual Learning Accounts scheme, the National Audit Office has said. The NAO reported last week...
Two of three students suspended in a race row at Bell College in Hamilton may be reinstated, but they could still face disciplinary action. The three legal studies students reportedly alleged that...
Swindon could gain a university campus. Plans by the University of Bath to set up a campus in Swindon for the equivalent of 8,000 full-time students were cemented with the backing of Swindon MP...
The government is to pay £95,000 to Sir William Stubbs, former chairman of the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority, who was dismissed at the height of last year's A-levels debacle. The Department...
Oxford University has launched a project to develop drugs to combat the smallpox virus after it has infected its host. As in the acclaimed cancer screensaver project, idle time on 2 million PCs...
The Arts and Humanities Research Board is fostering the marriage of science and art with a fellowship scheme for creative and performing arts staff in England who want to collaborate with scientists...
One in five further education colleges inspected is "inadequate", according to Ofsted's annual report published this week. The inspection of 105 colleges since April 2001, when Ofsted became...
Further education colleges could be rewarded according to the number of their students who progress to higher education if performance targets drawn up by the Learning and Skills Council are...