Women graduates earn 15 per cent less than men before they reach the age of 24, according to a joint campaign from the National Union of Students and the Equal Opportunities Commission. The "15 per...
Lifelong learning has been damaged by government initiatives that have stretched resources and produced a complex and confusing system, according to one lifelong learning professor. Frank Coffield of...
Britain has taken "two steps forward and one step back" in its journey towards creating a learning society, adult learning chiefs said this week. Launching its tenth Adult Learners Week, Niace, the...
It was supposed to be the archaeological find of the century - the gilded mummy of a Persian princess. Yet when the first carbon-dating results emerged from the coffin, Wolfgang Kretschmer knew...
Engineers have equipped a robot with the one social skill essential to British society - the ability to queue politely, writes Steve Farrar. The droid uses stereo vision, a sophisticated navigation...
Academic authors have failed to claim more than £750,000 of royalties from photocopying. The money comes from the licence fee universities pay to the Copyright Licensing Agency, the subject of the...
Students forced to work during term time can gain considerable benefits, such as enhanced management skills and increased confidence, and the negative effects on their academic work are marginal,...
Cambridge University's plans to hand new executive powers to its vice-chancellor are dangerous and ill-conceived and will undermine its dons' historical right to democratic self-rule, the university'...
Surgical apprenticeships are disintegrating. So what now, Claire Sanders asks Keeping human and sheep heads in separate rooms is just one of the many challenges faced by Paul O'Flynn, a lecturer at...
Two Edinburgh University postgraduates who hope to create a ski that reacts to the texture of the snow are among 15 student teams in the final stages of competing for a £10,000 business plan prize....
Cambridge University celebrated a milestone in its ten-year masterplan for a 66-hectare science and technology complex to the west of Cambridge last week when it officially opened its multimillion-...
Dundee University applied computing student Luke Wilson has developed software that will predict whether the value of shares will go up or down. Mr Wilson takes share prices from the London Stock...
Merchant navy sailors have been denied the chance to test interactive online courses because ship owners will not pay for the equipment needed to receive learning materials by satellite. North West...
The cost of college tuition is increasing at a time when a college education is becoming more important to Americans - and when more Americans are likely to have difficulty paying for it - according...
Australian universities are facing their second major upheaval in little more than a decade with a new education minister declaring the system of funding and higher education organisation...