The House of Commons select committee is right to look urgently at student support in United Kingdom universities. Decisions in Scotland following the Cubie report are creating new anomalies even as...
British academics are too white and too male, and too few come from Britain's disabled population. The government wants universities to do something about these problems. In response, the sector is...
Last week we looked at higher education funding in Australia. This week, Stanley Aronowitz examines the situation in the United States The American academic system is divided along two axes: private...
Ministers have agreed in principle to allow universities to charge top-up fees after unofficial negotiations with vice-chancellors, a senior MP has said. Phil Willis, the Liberal Democrat education...
Scottish Executive abolishes fourth-year fees for all UK students Final-year tuition fees are to be scrapped for English, Welsh and Northern Irish students studying four-year honours degrees at...
American academics are increasingly ready to forgo the security of tenure in exchange for competitive salaries and research freedom, a Harvard Graduate School of Education survey reveals today. The...
(Photograph) - Taken for a ride: nursing and midwifery students campaigning for a better deal took their protest to the skies when they went on the London Eye at Westminster this week. Unison, the...
A backlog of research fraud cases, a number of which involve university scientists, has been built up by the General Medical Council. Delays of up to two years are being experienced between the...
The government's disregard for academic freedom has become dangerous and damaging, academics and politicians have warned. Long-standing fears about ministers' attitudes to research intensified this...
Most sandwich courses do what they are meant to do - they improve a student's chances of finding work after graduation, a study by the University of Central England has found. A higher proportion of...
Lecturers' union Natfhe will open negotiations with the Association of Colleges next Thursday for a flat-rate pay increase of Pounds 2,500 for its members in further education colleges. On the same...
Universities in the Northwest of England have launched an association to ensure that higher education is represented on the regional agenda. Keith Burnley recently took up the post of executive...
Nottingham University alumni have paid Pounds 7 million in personal gifts to help fund bursaries, scholarships, and prizes for less well-off students. Some of the money, which includes individual...
Glasgow University is linking up with leading businesses in a scholarship scheme. The Century 21 Club has already attracted a dozen companies, including the Clydesdale Bank, Abbey National Financial...
The national subject centre in English is to be hosted by Royal Holloway College, the Council for College and University English and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College...