Are British universities homophobic? Gregory Woods says his experience proves they are When I was appointed recently to the first British professorship in gay and lesbian studies, I got crank mail...
Alison Utley discovers how new students in Manchester are learning to study and find time tofit in an episode of Neighbours Even very able 18-year-olds are often shocked by the extent to which they...
Baroness Blackstone launched a blueprint for national learning credits last week. Universities and colleges will use the national credit framework to measure students' achievements. The final report...
Southampton University is receiving Pounds 210,000 from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to support its innovative MSc course in applied digital signal processing. Distance-...
The University of Nottingham is receiving Pounds 450,000 for building key skills training into the curriculum. The cash is part of an Pounds 8 million initiative by the higher education and...
The University of Teesside has appointed its first teaching fellows. The appointments are aimed at academics who wish to specialise in teaching, offering an equivalent career progression to...
When Caroline Elliott's name was entered for the Pilkington Teaching Award she had to submit four years' worth of student assessments on her performance. Until then, she had no idea that her lectures...
Yeovil College is investing Pounds 3 million in new facilities for further education. The chairman of the Further Education Funding Council, Lord Davies of Oldham, is to visit Yeovil College later...
Maths teachers in Malaysia are all to receive "mental abacus arithmetic" (MAA) training in a move to elevate the level of maths and science across the country. More than 200 teacher trainers are...
The video training arm of the College of Law - Legal Network Television - has won a contract to produce 2,000 training video tapes for part-time civil judges on the civil justice reforms contained in...
Courses in Kingston University's School of geological sciences have been awarded accreditation status by the Geological Society - making it one of only five universities in the United Kingdom to have...
Danish university students are furious over a new ministerial order stipulating that spelling and grammar must be included when assignments are assessed. "Whether the students can spell is not...
Primary school pupils will be pleased to hear that research at the Institute of Education reveals that homework is not always a good thing. Susan Hallam and Richard Cowan told the education Section...
Alison Utley sits in as the cling-film man of geology tells his Open University students how plant fossils can reveal the earth's climate of 100 million years ago After a quick rub down with a towel...
Vice-chancellors have voiced fears that devolution and regional policies could undermine the international standing of British higher education. They are worried that devolved powers in Scotland and...