Tony Tysome reports on the Mozart effect and how music influences our moods and intelligence. Music may be the food of love, but the reasons why continue to elude scientists. A conference at the...
Full-time students who live at home and attend a local university are more likely to drop out than those who move away, say researchers at the universities of Cardiff and Lancaster. Bob McNabb of...
Government concern over university drop-out rates is highlighted by a study commissioned by the education department, writes Alan Thomson. The study, Student Non-completion in Higher Education, will...
Plans to turn a Sheffield brown-field site into a multi-million pound housing development for more than 1,000 students and private residents have been scaled down after locals complained the building...
Staffordshire University cannot be fully confident about the education provided in its name under overseas partnerships, quality watchdogs have warned in a report published this week. A Quality...
There are few cities in Britain where the realities of today's economic forces are more starkly demonstrated than Birmingham. England's "second city" is in a state of rapid change and, for once,...
Scottish educationists are hailing a new mood of optimism among prospective students following the abolition of tuition fees, demonstrated by today's announcement of a dramatic late rise in...
Aberdeen University has made irreversible renovations to its historic 500 year-old chapel that academics fear will damage its unique medieval choir stalls. King's College Chapel celebrated the...
Northern Ireland's two universities have stressed their commitment to equal opportunities despite uncertainty as to whether they will fall under new equality legislation in the province, writes Olga...
Whistleblowing academic Andrew Colman has finally been awarded a professorship by Leicester University following THES reports on his long-running and acrimonious dispute with the university over its...
The London School of Economics was found guilty by an employment tribunal this week of sexual discrimination against a female lecturer. The tribunal found unanimously that Helen Mercer, a lecturer in...
Plans to let students complete the first two years of a medical degree through part-time distance learning before entering the third year of medical school have taken a step forward, writes Alison...
The Department of Health and the Higher Education Funding Council for England have formed a strategic alliance on research and development for health and social care. Sir John Pattison, director of...
Cash paid to colleges for students' exam results should be cut, or even scrapped, college leaders have recommended. They fear that output-based funding rewards colleges that recruit only those...
September Francis Maude, shadow chancellor, invites me to take part in a policy group he is setting up to look again at the Tory policy of opposition to Bank of England independence. I accept. Meet...