Joe Baden, project manager, Agency for Non-traditional Students, Goldsmiths College,London. It is time that the debate surrounding widening participation moved on. Because of its immediate, and...
Universities must pay researchers City-level salaries, said the government's chief scientific adviser, David King. He was responding to a speech by prime minister Tony Blair yesterday in which Mr...
Real-terms funding per student in further education has increased by 12 per cent over the past five years, government figures reveal. Core funding for further education is estimated to have grown in...
Universities Scotland has called for government funding to help meet an estimated £6.2 million rise in National Insurance contributions. The estimate, from a survey of Scotland's 21 higher education...
Popular views of the roles and relationships of men and women underlie many social problems, said Ann Oakley, director of the social science research unit at London University's Institute of...
A forum was held at the University of Sussex yesterday on issues of academic freedom, academic power and equality of students after Geoffrey Sampson, a professor of natural language processing,...
The latest issue of the University of Warwick's newsletter, CommUnicate , contains an appeal for an alternative to traditional university social life "organised by female members who, from their age...
Congratulations to the latest crop of Royal Society medal winners: John Pople has received the Copley Medal for development of computational methods in quantum chemistry; David King has been awarded...
Academics today have to be much more professional than in the past, says David Westbury, pro vice-chancellor of Birmingham University, who chaired the transparency review and whose experience of...
Monday After my lecture last week in Liverpool on lesbian and gay youth development and how it affects families and schools, I spend the morning playing catch-up with correspondence. I am a little...
It is time to strengthen the strategic links between higher education and healthcare, argues Howard Newby There has never been a more important time for higher education and the National Health...
The government should ensure that the nascent e-University and institutions offering online learning adopt "networked" e-learning that focuses on communication and interaction between students and...
David Beckham's team are not England's only football hope in the Far East. Plymouth University is flying the flag in the 2002 Robot Football World Cup, which began in Seoul yesterday. Mark Norman,...
Eric Thomas, vice-chancellor of the University of Bristol, last week spent 90 minutes shadowing a cleaner to promote adult learners week. Surely the cleaner should have been shadowing the vice-...
The battle between a Victorian author and his publisher over a novel about female medical students is revealed in a book by academic David Finkelstein. Dr Finkelstein, head of the media and...