The higher education bill is expected to address more aspects of higher education than just headline tuition fees issues. The bill will replace upfront fees with tuition fees that are repayable after...
Labour MPs Peter Bradley and Alan Whitehead have submitted a paper to the government urging it to convert the postgraduation fee remission to upfront, cash-in-hand maintenance grants. They want a...
Birmingham University students have attacked plans for variable fees. Jenny Elliott , 20, a third-year medical student from Sheffield, said: "It will lead to a two-tier education system. It will...
The team of scientists behind the Beagle 2 Mars probe will keep searching for the lost spacecraft well into February after the latest attempt to contact it failed on Wednesday. The first fly-by of...
Entries for this year's Aventis prizes for science books, which reward the best popular science writing for adults and children, should be submitted by February 6. Longlists are announced in March...
Monitoring and recording of work to improve environmental sustainability should become a condition of grant for Scottish universities, according to a motion to be put to the Scottish Parliament by...
Jim Skea, director of the Policy Studies Institute, has been awarded an OBE in the new year honours list in recognition of his work in sustainable development research, particularly in transport. He...
Cinema-goers worldwide are to be surveyed on their reactions to the latest blockbuster Lord of the Rings film, in the biggest project of its kind led by researchers at Aberystwyth University. An...
Researchers have found the first clear signs of a direct link between high levels of staff stress and the poor performance of their universities in research and teaching, writes Phil Baty. As part of...
The Association of University Teachers is trying to draw its 47,000 members into a doomed campaign of industrial action over a "misconception" about the status of the union's minority of academic-...
New lecturers could be £12,135 worse off over the first 13 years of their career under the proposed pay and careers framework, the Association of University Teachers claimed this week. Citing figures...
Cash for classroom-based teaching will rise 20 per cent next year, and funding chiefs have done a U-turn on plans to cut the money given to media studies after an outcry by leading industry figures....
He may have been dead for nearly 500 years, but Niccol Machiavelli may yet play a part in the forthcoming US presidential election campaign. Scholars are divided on the relevance of the Renaissance...
The European Union is "worryingly" short of higher education graduates, according to the European Commission. In a policy paper designed as the basis for a full-scale education report in March, the...
The UK is wasting money producing overeducated graduates who lack the skills that employers want, an education and management expert has claimed. The government would be better channelling the money...