Further education colleges are facing an identity crisis as more students opt for higher education courses in academic subjects rather than lower level vocational qualifications, research reveals....
The government is set to spend another £40 million to promote ailing modern apprenticeships, as new figures reveal that it is falling further behind its targets for take-up of the flagship programme...
The Romans gave the world its first real taste of globalisation, according to a new theory to be outlined this weekend. A reassessment of the trials and triumphs of the ancient empire-builders...
Intellectual battles should mean stimulating encounters with students rather than colleagues cutting one another in corridors It used to be quite common for people in English departments not to talk...
Monday I'm here in Moscow as an international observer at the Russian parliamentary elections. My hotel is the Rossiya, just off Red Square. My room overlooks the river, and beyond it is the power...
As the latest batch of gongs are conferred on the great and the good, former rector of the London Institute John McKenzie, who recently stood down as chairman of Leeds United Football Club, received...
As the Diary welcomes in the New Year there comes scientific proof of the wine tasters' adage that the best champagne has small bubbles and lots of them. Researchers at the University of Reims...
Those popular and successful types who were elected class president in medical school may not be so fortunate after all. A University of Toronto study found that they will die 2.4 years sooner than...
A model agency has launched a recruitment drive targeted at students. MOT Models is searching for hopefuls aged between 18 and 22, with a poster and flier campaign bearing the slogan "Are you model...
The government's policy for variable university fees is not relevant to the real problems of higher education in the UK. Vice-chancellors have persuaded government that they are seriously short of...
Rugby got us dancing in the streets, so why can't we revel in science? asks Peter Cotgreave If the Beagle 2 lander had worked as planned after reaching Mars last week, it would have had to calibrate...
Diversity, not corporate bureaucracy, is essential in university management, says Ian McNay Academics committed to developing the government's e-learning strategy have complained about being...
A “gang of four” super-elite UK universities is exerting an ever-tightening stranglehold on research, according to an exclusive analysis for The THES . Imperial College London tops the group with a...
Shakespeare’s comedies may have failed to amuse generations of schoolchildren, but it seems computers could be more open to appreciating the wit of the Bard. Software developed by US scholars can...
Vice-chancellors should support a flat-rate top-up fee along the lines suggested by Labour MPs Peter Bradley and Alan Whitehead, the chair of the Coalition of Modern Universities said this week. The...