Anglia Polytechnic University has moved to banish the word "polytechnic" from its name, but not without a row with its neighbour, the University of East Anglia. Governors at APU this week unanimously...
Scottish university student support staff are dismayed by a new hardship scheme which they believe raises unrealistic expectations and burdens administrators, writes Olga Wojtas. The Student Awards...
Scots are anxious to have more direct links with a new Scottish parliament, including a civic forum to shadow its work and put forward proposals, a politics professor has revealed. Alice Brown of...
A LEADING constitutional expert in the House of Lords this week attacked government plans to abolish hereditary peers. Historian Max Beloff spoke against abolition during Wednesday's and Thursday's...
A multi-million pound research project used to inform government policy is "low-level, flawed, and of little or no validity", a senior researcher responsible for the work has said. The research by...
Crickdale College sacked business studies lecturer Andrew Murray this week. Mr Murray blew the whistle on the college's Pounds 1 million plus debt and a Fraud Squad visit. The college blames his...
The Museums and Galleries Commission has rejected government proposals that it should merge with the Libraries and Information Commission to form a single body to represent the interests of the two...
University libraries in the United Kingdom and United States have joined forces in a novel electronic publishing scheme that will offer peer-reviewed academic journals at a fraction of the price...
The Office of Science and Technology has backed a report on improving terms and conditions for non-permanent research staff with Pounds 150,000 for projects to improve career guidance. The report...
(Photograph) - Aberdeen University served up a taste of the past during its history department's "living history day" on war and rebellion in Scotland. Historical re-enactment groups, the Sealed Knot...
Baron Neill of Bladen of Briantspuddle in Dorset, 72, has the kind of background which gives him the confidence to put the Prime Minister right on his first day in a new job. His reputation as "...
Viscount Ridley will be retiring as chancellor of the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne in December. A special honorary degree congregation in his honour will confer honorary doctorates of civil law...
Nicky-Sinead Gardner, former director of educational services and university librarian at the University of Ulster and an expert on the use of information technology in higher education, will join...
Wednesday I found out that my mother had breast cancer by overhearing a conversation between a relative and a neighbour. I was nine. She had a mastectomy and I became used to seeing her prostheses (...
The biggest international gathering on higher education ever took place in Paris last week. David Jobbins reports on how participants saw their role Unesco's 182-member nations - and the United...