When the adult learning network suggested running a conference, we offered to host it and pay. Napier University thought it was important for outreach. It is about welcoming people into a university...
British universities will lose bright state school pupils to America unless they overhaul their admissions systems, the leader of a head teachers' union warned this week. David Hart, general...
Expenditure by higher education institutions rose by 5.4 per cent last year, while income rose by just 4.1 per cent, latest figures show, writes Harriet Swain. Data published by the Higher Education...
Columbia University has asked a US senator and former student to help clear the way to extend a profitable patent on a biotechnology process it developed. Without a change in the patent law, Columbia...
(Photograph) - Mature student: Sydney Chadwick, aged 97, was presented with learning vouchers worth Pounds 250 by lifelong learning minister Malcolm Wicks as part of the Adult Learners Week...
College students in Scotland will be able to access an Pounds 8 million child-care package from August, while graduates will be expected to contribute to the endowment scheme once they earn Pounds 10...
Sunderland University plans to invest up to Pounds 1 million in creating an educational facility for people working in glass, ceramics and related arts at the city's National Glass Centre (left),...
University libraries in the US have joined forces to push for institutions to exercise greater control over copyright generated by academics in an effort break the stranglehold publishers have on...
The Scottish post-school examination system, which has already undergone radical reforms, faces a further revolution within five years because of information technology. The prediction came from Ron...
The European Parliament wants each member state to spend at least 3 per cent of its gross domestic product on research - nearly double the current amount. Responding last week to the European...
British universities and colleges will be able to bid for grants from a E4.7 billion (Pounds 2.9 billion)budget, financed by the European Commission, writes Keith Nuthall. The money is earmarked for...
It was more like a movie premiere than the launch of a higher education recruitment campaign. Celebrities from the worlds of film, TV and fashion joined politicians and businessmen for a glitzy gala...
More than half of Northern Ireland graduates feel that their skills and talents are underused in the province's business and industry and that local employers do not help develop their skills,...
How does Cambridge University decide who to promote to one of the tiny number of esteemed personal professorships each year? Judging by a transcript of a taped formal feedback session given to a now-...
British chemical engineers are falling behind their US counterparts in carrying out leading-edge work, according to a new method of analysing citations of papers. And it seems the research assessment...