An external examiner has claimed that at one university, first-class marks were routinely given to students for work that merited only third-class degrees or even failures.Richard Royle, senior...
"Key concepts and intellectual ideas that students readily understood 10-15 years ago ... they struggle to understand today," Peter Dorey, reader in British politics at Cardiff University, told the...
Analysis spots collegial links between reviewers and top-ranked institutions. Zoe Corbyn writes
Science is to be the key to the UK's economic recovery, the Prime Minister has said.In a lecture given at the University of Oxford last week, Gordon Brown said he would shift the economy from its...
Institutions with 7,500 staff had best research assessment exercise scores, reports Zoe Corbyn
More than 6,000 new masters and PhD places in the arts and humanities will be created over the next five years.The Arts and Humanities Research Council has announced two new mechanisms for allocating...
Universities think listening to their students is very important - but they put more emphasis on viewing students as "consumers" than on seeing them as "partners in a learning community", according...
Martin Everett's seven-month limbo ends with his exit, but questions remain, writes Melanie Newman
SCIS founder faces fraud allegations in the UK and is wanted in Germany. Melanie Newman reports
John Denham, the Universities Secretary, was booed as he defended the Government's record on education at a volatile meeting with campaigners in Westminster last week.Responding to persistent...
David Eastwood on the challenge of allocating funding to support excellent research and world-class teaching
If people who teach journalists will not uphold standards in the use of English, we cannot expect others to do so, says Tim Luckhurst
Good news for post-92s but cash spread more thinly. Zoë Corbyn and Rebecca Attwood report
- University lecturers are doing more unpaid overtime than they did last year, according to the University and College Union. The UCU, which was marking Work Your Proper Hours Day on February, said...