A distance-learning link is being set up by the University of Paris-6, Pierre et Marie Curie, so that medical students in New Caledonia can follow first-year studies without having to leave France's...
A judge has found that administrators at Rutgers University in New Jersey illegally told low-paid office cleaners they would be fired if they attempted to unionise. The custodians at Rutgers worked...
Universities have a mountain to climb to meet the government's 50 per cent participation target according to two new reports exposing damning evidence of the barriers facing the poor. The National...
Survey shows alarming level of racism Almost a third of ethnic minority academics report that they have been racially harassed at work, according to a survey of 10,000 members of the Association of...
APPOINTMENTS University of Edinburgh Professoressor James Ironside has assumed the role of Director of the National Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease Surveillance Unit. Under management restructuring plans...
Pressure mounts for funding rethink Tory and Liberal Democrat MPs have joined the National Union of Students in calling for an overhaul of the way students are funded. They were responding to...
Academic staff: 575 Undergraduates: 5,320 Postgraduates: 1,425 Stirling University has two advantages: a glorious lochside campus and a remarkably flexible modular system. It was a pioneer of...
Another omission from our list of new year's honours has come to light. Robert McDonald received an MBE for his services to the Association of Training Providers and to training.
If RAE funding separates teaching from research, it will alienate many staff, warns Colin Clark. MEMO To : Higher Education Funding Council for England. From : An improving social sciences department...
News The rise of the education development unit Features Passion and the Pankhursts: June Purvis and Martin Pugh dispute feminist history. Plus: Mark Roseman: new research on the Wannsee conference;...
Vocational higher education leaders are dismayed by the government's decision to axe development money for their new flagship qualification, the graduate apprenticeship, writes Tony Tysome. At a...
Higher education in Wales should be reorganised into five geographical clusters, with one of them leading the way in research and another focusing on teaching and widening access, the Welsh Assembly'...
Researchers are due to discover next week how much they will be funded following the research assessment exercise. Funding chiefs are considering several options that could penalise performance...
The research assessment exercise is biased owing to the "small world" effect, according to an analysis by Andrew Colman, an expert in game theory and cooperative reasoning at the University of...
Widening access can be combined successfully with low dropout rates and excellence in teaching and research, according to an analysis by The THES . Some 30 UK universities do particularly well by...