Two-year degree courses could provide a way of luring more students from poorer backgrounds to university, Bill Rammell, the Higher Education Minister, told university heads this week. Mr Rammell...
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The London School of Tropical Medicine may have to postpone its tests for 1,600 students because of the AUT's boycott. Lydia Stockdale reports More than 1,000 students in 130 countries could have...
* The presidents of up to 20 student unions including those at Bristol, Southampton, University College London, Newcastle, Kent and King's College London have signed a petition condemning the...
Union leaders hope that the complexities of calculating how much pay to dock from boycotting academics may prove too much for managers after an administrative bungle by Bradford University meant that...
In a scenario that would not look out of place in The Da Vinci Code , a French professor has used secret codes to arrange meetings with students amid the protests in Paris, making him a potential...
V-c sits through attack by Singapore's ex-PM over treatment of foreign alumni Cambridge University has suffered an embarrassing attack its treatment of overseas students from Singapore's founding...
The race to lead the forthcoming merged lecturers' super-union was thrown open this week as the first grassroots union member declared his intention to stand in the election for general secretary....
A political deal in Strasbourg has at last revealed the likely budget of the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme. The European Parliament, the EU Council of Ministers and European Commission...
Universities with lakes and waterways populated with ducks and wildfowl and institutions with farms that keep poultry are on high alert after the arrival of bird flu in the UK. Estates and grounds...
Spin-off companies are not as successful as they could be because universities take too large a proportion of shares for themselves, a conference heard last week. Researchers are given shareholdings...
Some UK universities are still failing to control what is being done in their name when they offer their degree courses in collaboration with outside partners, quality watchdogs have said. In an...
The Oxford English Dictionary describes it as "an act of exposing one's buttocks" and cites its earliest published use as 1990, writes Tony Tysome. But researchers for the BBC television programme...
Harriet Swain surveys the upcoming meeting of the Royal Economic Society Remedial maths help for university economics students does nothing to boost their academic performance, research has suggested...
Areas near universities with high-rated departments attract substantial private-sector research and development investment, researchers have confirmed. But they also discovered the surprising fact...