Wales's only medical and dental school is failing to safeguard standards and cannot guarantee the quality of its own awards, quality watchdogs have warned. The University of Wales College of Medicine...
The number of new students who plan to live at home while attending university or college has risen to 22.6 per cent this year compared with 20.8 per cent last year, according to figures published...
REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Over the past decade, we have heard more and more about blocks of ice the size of countries breaking adrift from the Antarctic...
As another university decides to disaffiliate, Harriet Swain asks if this is the beginning of the end for the National Union of Students. This time last year students at the University of Manchester...
Melton Mowbray College accepted fees from a suspected illegal immigrant despite clear warnings from entry clearance officials that she might have obtained her student visa by deception. Melton...
REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Is genetic modification of crops the hope for the future or a sure-fire route to bankruptcy? The issue was debated at this week's...
The framework for the new university quality assurance regime for British universities is in disarray, with university chiefs, the funding councils and the quality watchdog at loggerheads. The...
The QAA published a consultation paper this week, building on the Dearing recommendation that universities develop a universal student "progress file". The files would "form an important element of...
Lecturers attacked the government at the Trades Union Congress this week for ducking responsibility for higher education pay and conditions. Alan John, president of university and college lecturers'...
Prime minister Tony Blair this week said there is "no reason" why Silicon Fen, the academic and industrial concentration of IT and electronics expertise and business in Cambridgeshire, cannot beat...
Cambridge University is best for both teaching and research and has the stiffest entry requirements among British universities, according to a league table compiled by the The Sunday Times to be...
Universities must address issues of human rights and sustainable development if they want to promote themselves worldwide, a report to be published next week will argue. The report, produced by the...
Academics are to charge for selected words of wisdom through a new service on the internet, launched this week. More than 30 lecturers at the University of Northumbria have joined together in a web-...
Vice-chancellors are likely to spend more than a third of their time on fundraising by 2010, the principal of Aberdeen University predicts. Duncan Rice, speaking at this week's CASE-HEERA conference...
Bolton College plans to make 26 staff compulsorily redundant as part of a savings drive. Eight lecturers and 18 support staff are expected to go in an attempt by the college to meet a planned Pounds...