Debate reignited by new league tables
Rebecca Attwood reports on latest rival methodologies and the concerns about tables' effects on institutions. Universities should boycott league tables, argued one educationist this week as the...
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Cash may be tied to merger moves - Wales minister
Welsh universities may be forced into mergers if they want a share of a multi million-pound pot set aside by the Welsh Assembly Government to develop higher education in the principality. The new...
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Student debt up...
Student debt has risen 167 per cent to £3.2 billion over the past decade, according to a survey of more than 1,000 students by uSwitch.com, a price comparison service. The average amount owed by...
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...finding pals is tops...
Students preparing to go to university in the autumn are more concerned about making friends than paying bills, according to a survey published this week. The survey of more than 8,000 students by...
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... bursaries a must
Students should get bursaries towards the cost of the degrees that are most useful to the economy, business leaders said this week. Ahead of the announcement of this year's A-level results, the CBI...
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Robots on course
Humanoid robots, robotic arms and a motion-capture suit are among the equipment available to students on a BSc (Hons) in robotics at Bedfordshire University thanks to a £250,000 investment. The...
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Degrees of employment
Figures published this week show graduates with the lowest degree classifications are about two and a half times more likely to be unemployed six months after graduating than those getting firsts....
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The bigger the bill, the greater the gripes
Those who invested heavily in their education, including postgraduate and foreign students, are lodging the most complaints. Rebecca Attwood reports An undergraduate expelled for a first offence of...
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Sun, sea, sand and sexing up clearing
Universities are embracing the latest technological trends in a bid to make themselves heard amid the annual clamour of clearing. This year has seen campaigns targeting social networking websites,...
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Technology and would-be undergraduates
Two thirds of would-be undergraduates say that the technology on offer will influence their choice of university. A report commissioned by IT company Logicalis also warned that many universities were...
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UK university show climaxes on India TV
A primetime Indian reality TV show reached its climax this week as the first winners emerged from the tens of thousands of teenagers who have battled it out to secure one of five scholarships to a...
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Bursaries for doing what...?
Unselfish rugby players, relatives of retired postal workers and bassoon players could be the benficiaries of some unusual offers, according to a new guide, writes Rebecca Attwood. The compilers of...
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Plaudit for Kerala
Scholars in southwestern India discovered one of the basic components of calculus hundreds of years ahead of Sir Isaac Newton, academics from Exeter and Manchester universities have claimed. The...
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Art of online dating
A Nottingham Trent University student turned the efforts of internet dating conmen into her masters fine art project, displaying the expensive gifts and romantic messages she received after posing as...
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Mergers favour banks
Mergers between banks and building societies help the financial institutions involved but not their customers, a study by the Centre for Competition Policy at the University of East Anglia has found...