Ulster University has unveiled plans for a £40 million campus in central Belfast. The university has not yet secured the funding, but has won support from the city council's planning committee for...
Stacey O'Neil and Peter Rhys Duggan star in Neverland , by Phyllis Nagy, as part of Salford Univeristy's development project in theatre. The project gives graduates the chance to develop and showcase...
Student demand for university places is almost static, jeopardising government expansion plans. Figures released this week by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service show a 0.8 per cent rise...
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Welsh colleges get £4 million boost The Welsh Assembly has announced a £4 million boost for further education colleges in Wales. An extra £3.17 million will be provided this year to help colleges...
Former United States president Bill Clinton is to open Oxford University's Rothermere American Institute in May, raising speculation that he may take a more prominent role at the university. Rumours...
Good news for those afraid of creepy crawlies - there may be fewer species than previously thought. Frode Øregaard, a researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Nature Research in Trondheim, has...
Stranmillis University College was inadvertently omitted from last week's employment league table. Some 124 full-time home degree students graduated from the college last summer, 98 per cent of whom...
A summer of industrial action that could prevent university students from graduating is looming as unions this week rejected a 3.3 per cent pay rise. Lecturers' union Natfhe, which already has a...
Vice-chancellors appear to have been given the green light to channel an extra £330 million into lecturers' pay packets over the next three years. Higher education minister Baroness Blackstone told...
The last £24 million of the Joint Infrastructure Fund has been dealt out from the £750 million pot set up by the Wellcome Trust and the Department for Trade and Industry in 1998. At the same time,...
London universities may be jeopardising their application rates because of the high cost of their accommodation. A survey shows that many of the institutions pinpointed as having the most expensive...
Ten British universities are preparing to launch a broader PhD programme designed to answer growing competition for overseas graduates from the United States. The "new route" PhD, backed by the...
Social work academics are concerned that the government's drive towards competences and vocationalism could undermine the academic content of the new three-year degree-level qualification. Last month...
Astronomers are cautiously optimistic that they will soon raise the money needed to turn the United Kingdom's radio telescope network into one of the most powerful on the planet. Fears for the future...