Our university system remains medieval; our teaching practices at best belong to the 19th century. Years of modularisation and semesterisation, e-learning and best practice have not changed what must...
Coffins and urns adorned with the insignia of American universities and colleges are being used to raise cash for institutions. The items are being sold by Collegiate Memorials, "a family-owned...
A former chief scientific adviser to the government, Lord May of Oxford, has hit on a novel idea for making genetically modified foods acceptable to the public. Speaking in his role as president of...
Scientists must be more robust and less defensive to counter public suspicion, argues Derek Burke Once upon a time, scientists thought that all we had to do was to decide whether a novel food or...
The conference room at the Department for Education and Skills that hosts press briefings has an array of photographs of former education secretaries lining the walls. Heavy-hitting politicians...
July: Oxford It's that time of year again. The usual eve-of-battle doubts - three months of archaeological excavation about to begin. Will we survive? Early tomorrow we leave for Brittany. Brittany 8...
At least one in four qualified but disadvantaged students doubt that they will go to university because of debt, according to a Universities UK survey released today. This is the first clear evidence...
Student entrepreneurs at Oxford University are hoping to give inventor Trevor Baylis his first success in the quest to establish an inventors' shop in major university towns. "I am working with a...
Up to half the former polytechnics may be effectively stripped of their research role under proposals in the government's strategy document due next month. Education secretary Charles Clarke is...
Cranfield School of Management has appointed Michael Osbaldeston as its director from next January. Professor Osbaldeston has been head of global learning at Shell International. He is also director...
Twenty thousand students marched through London on Wednesday because they do not want to live in a society where access to education is based on wealth, said National Union of Students president...
The future finances of Britain's universities could ultimately lie in the hands of a journalist. In the pre-budget report last week, chancellor Gordon Brown announced that the former editor of the...
The government's review of higher education looks set to recommend top-up fees repaid by graduates according to earnings. Ministers, who are finalising next month's higher education strategic review...
Tuition fees may return in Ireland after higher education became a casualty of efforts to rein in public spending in this week's budget. Trinity College Dublin imposed an immediate freeze on filling...
The Higher Education Funding Council for England was denounced as "totalitarian" by vice-chancellors this week after it suggested that universities could earn autonomy by demonstrating good...