Ministers have "strongly censured" the principal and governors of Tameside College for "wilfully" breaking the rules of governance when they removed the college clerk and chair of governors from...
Oxford University may have to face allegations of race discrimination from black researcher Chinese Anya for a third time after the employment tribunal granted him leave to appeal against the latest...
A quarter of arts and humanities postgraduates feel that having a doctorate has failed to help them fulfil their career expectations, research has found. The first study into the careers of arts and...
In the post-devolutionary UK, nations are not speaking unto nations through the media, but mostly unto themselves, according to research at Edinburgh University. John MacInnes, reader in sociology at...
Ministers are planning to give premium payments to London's teacher training providers after they warned they may no longer be able to educate the next generation of teachers without more money. Two...
Japanese studies are facing an "insecure" future in the UK, with nine institutions axeing courses, undergraduate numbers falling and libraries facing acute budget shortages. A report by the Daiwa...
A new survey on graduate salaries is to be introduced. From January 15 2004, a "destinations of higher education leavers" questionnaire will replace the "first destinations survey". It will gather...
Union leaders this week called on academics to boycott Birmingham University's ceremony to install its new chancellor, Sir Dominic Cadbury. The Association of University Teachers is protesting...
Ulster University says statistics from the International Centre for Distance Learning show that it leads the UK in online masters degrees only a year after launching its virtual campus, Campus One....
About 30 researchers across the country have this week been road-testing the revolutionary European DataGrid (EDG). They hope to become missionaries for its use in their home institutions. The...
Four UK institutions are offering courses in nation building to exiled Burmese students who are committed to democratising Burma and who are prepared to return home to rebuild the country. The London...
Many medical journal editors are put under pressure to alter editorial content by the associations that employ them, a survey has found. The authors of the study warn that whenever editorial freedom...
Surrey University is to make 70 of its 350 contract research staff permanent from January. All staff at grade RA2 and above who have more than six months to run on their contracts will be eligible....
Business studies students have shown an alarming tendency to abandon ethical awareness after exposure to the workplace and need earlier training in ethics, a researcher has warned. A study conducted...
Loughborough University has bought a 163-acre site adjoining its campus from gas company Advantica in a project that could create hundreds of jobs. It plans to use the existing hi-spec buildings to...