International students are to be invited to describe their achievements and experiences in UK universities, colleges and schools for a chance to win awards worth thousands of pounds. The...
Union leaders have warned that including universities in the General Agreement on Trade in Services could lead to the "McDonaldisation of higher education". Member countries of the World Trade...
New Zealand's eight universities have reluctantly accepted a deal to keep tuition fees at current levels in return for a 4.5 per cent funding increase next year. Universities had refused to accept...
It has been more than a century since a university fielded a side in the FA Cup. This week, the University of Bath team won its fourth-round qualifier to go through to the first round proper of the...
Fortnight one Would I like to come and dig up a specimen of the world's largest fish just outside Peterborough? I nearly bite the hands off my colleagues from Portsmouth and Glasgow universities when...
Two adverts have appeared for the chief executive of the Ulster-Scots Agency, the Northern Ireland language body that helps fund Ulster University's Institute of Ulster-Scots Studies. One advert is...
Oops - the government's aim for equality in public life is slipping. Three years ago, the Department for Education and Skills pledged to increase the representation of women on quangos from 29 per...
Higher education watchers could have confidently predicted that the new rector of St Andrews University would be Sir Clement Freud. The former Liberal MP won the race with 52.4 per cent of the 1,892...
Hot on the heels of the news that the University of Bath is in the FA Cup proper comes reports of further student sporting prowess. Congratulations to the motor sports students at the University of...
Another entry has arrived for The Diary's competition to name the institution created by any merger between Imperial College London and University College London - Imperversity. Meanwhile, the...
A German condom company has asked British students to test its products, rating them for comfort, pleasure and all-round performance. It is paying £100 per academic term for the students to test its...
The Higher Education Policy Institute, launched today, has announced its advisory board members. They are: Lord Dearing; Roger Brown, principal of the Southampton Institute; Sir Graeme Davies,...
The chair of the Disability Rights Commission, Bert Massie, has urged vice-chancellors to "show leadership" to ensure that their universities are ready for new disability rights legislation. Speaking...
The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council has announced it will cut one of its funding rounds to reduce its peer-review, research committee and administrative burden. The council...
The number of people applying to social work courses has risen by more than 8 per cent in the past year, according to provisional figures from the Social Work Admissions System - the route for 60 per...