Some 2.8 per cent more students entered higher education last autumn compared with the previous year, according to data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. A total of 368,115...
The government has shelved plans for the introduction of a "matriculation diploma", which was proposed last year in its green paper on 14-19 education, writes Tony Tysome. The idea will be set aside...
Oxford University has changed its rules for voting at the forthcoming election for chancellor. It has done away with the requirement to pay for an MA, and it is likely to end the requirement that...
Almost half of students think they do not get good value for money from their university course, a survey will reveal next week, writes writes Phil Baty. It is expected that the annual Unite student...
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Hertfordshire University is to axe up to 100 jobs to head off a £4 million deficit. Vice-chancellor Neil Buxton said that 45 academic posts and about 45 administrative posts would be culled in the...
Thames Valley University's plans to merge with Reading College in September have stalled over fears about the effect on neighbouring further education colleges. Peter Holland of the Berkshire...
Researchers at Staffordshire University have secured £83,000 to discover why working-class students fail to enter further education and are more likely to drop out if they do. The Institute of Access...
A 20-year-old woman was attacked and raped at the University of Sussex campus last Saturday. The attacker threatened to kill her, but ran off after a violent struggle in which the victim bit him on...
The European Space Agency has pulled the plug on the historic Rosetta mission to land a spacecraft on a comet. The postponement of the launch means that plans to rendezvous with the comet Wirtanen in...
Israel this week ordered the closure of Hebron University and Hebron Polytechnic University, Hisham Kuheil, the Palestinian deputy minister of higher education, said. But Bir Zeit, Al Quds and Al...
Network and desktop design publishing company Adobe Systems is offering design students the chance to win $5,000 (£3,100) and a trip to Chicago. Winners will also receive ten Adobe software products...
The severe shortage of mathematics teachers could be linked to the way undergraduates are taught at university, a study has found. Researchers from Leeds University and King's College London followed...
Criminologist Bill Thompson plans to file a lawsuit against the police after they raided his home and office as part of an investigation into child pornography. The investigation has apparently been...
Travellers who have marvelled at the pyramids, gasped at the Grand Canyon and raved about the Great Barrier Reef should add S****horpe, Skegness and North Berwick to their must-see list, according to...