Sir Ron Dearing has called for a report on how more working class students can be attracted to higher education. The report, just completed by David Robertson, head of policy development at Liverpool...
A national core curriculum to check falling standards in the burgeoning business and management degree market is being developed by the Association of Business Schools. The Internet-based Biznet 2000...
Inspectors have found serious failings in college business and management courses including out-of-touch teaching and course material, writes Alan Thomson. A Further Education Funding Council...
Just over 30 institutions have received extra student places as a one-off increase for the next academic year. More than 60 universities and colleges bid for a share of the 2,000 additional numbers...
Michael Harloe is to be the new vice chancellor, University of Salford, and will take up the post on October 1 when Tom Husband retires. Professor Harloe is pro vice chancellor with responsibility...
Young lawyers and small law firms are locked in a row over pay which could see the minimum salary for solicitors scrapped. Legal firms consulted by the Law Society earlier this year favoured an end...
Moira Carr is to be the first Northern Irish president of lecturers' union Natfhe, committing herself to a united union voice on education. Ms Carr will become vice president of the union in May and...
THE CAMPAIGN for a pay review body for lecturers was boosted this week as the two largest unions set their sights on Dearing. The Association of University Teachers and lecturers' union Natfhe were...
A team of researchers at Nottingham University school of education is rebelling against the forthcoming national curriculum for initial teacher training - by presenting its own version of best...
Talks have reopened between lecturers and managers at Yeovil College raising hopes that a strike over new contracts can be avoided. Both sides have agreed to further talks brokered by the Arbitration...
A new centre of mathematical sciences planned for Cambridge University has received its first donation of Pounds 2.5 million from the Marit and Hans Rausing Charitable Foundation. The cost of the new...
John Randall is to be the new chief executive of the Quality Assurance Agency. He will leave the Law Society, where he is director of professional standards and development, with responsibility for...
Student voters could swing three key general election marginal seats to the Conservatives, although final-year students as a whole back Labour, according to a poll from market research company High...
A Labour government would transform the Council for Science and Technology to increase openness and give practising scientists better input into government policy. Adam Ingram, the shadow science...
Perhaps Edinburgh University academics had already decided who to vote for, but five minutes after the intended start of the Association of University Teachers' education question time, the four...