Universities will be forced to sign up to the government's planned new teaching quality academy despite widespread opposition, writes Phil Baty. The Higher Education Funding Council for England was...
Academics at Nottingham Trent University are threatening to strike after being told to "focus their efforts on teaching" if they cannot pay their own research bills. In a memo sent to all staff last...
The £17 million cut to bioscience teaching funding is disastrous and risks the closure of several departments, academics and science bodies warned this week. Under the Higher Education Funding...
Medicine, modern languages and science in Scotland could suffer from the knock-on effects of England's white paper on higher education, an inquiry has heard. The Scottish Parliament's enterprise and...
MPs this week condemned the government and the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council for their lack of action in dealing with light pollution, writes Caroline Davis. They said astronomers...
Plans to replace the research assessment exercise ignore fundamental problems with the current funding model for universities, say academics and business leaders. Responses to Sir Gareth Roberts'...
Research assessment exercise funding should be replaced entirely by a system where project costs are paid in full by research councils and external funders, higher education and industry leaders have...
A college that withheld examiners' comments from a student during a dispute over his tuition has breached the terms of the Data Protection Act, the information commissioner has ruled. The Anglo-...
The Medical Research Council is trying to encourage research into brain disease by offering proof-of-concept grants worth a total of £4.8 million. Researchers gave the news a cautious welcome....
Scotland has set up a training system for student representatives to ensure that they can play a full part in its radical new quality assurance scheme that focuses on students' experience. Sparqs,...
Students are threatening to sue Leicester University for breach of contract after their mass communications department was restructured, writes Tony Tysome. About 30 second and third-year students...
Vice-chancellors across the Commonwealth have been urged to support proposals for the creation of a new baccalaureate that could act as a common entrance qualification for all of their institutions....
The London School of Economics is considering whether to waive higher tuition fees for deserving British students. Sir Howard Davies, who became director of the LSE last week, told The THES : "We do...
Proposals for a European Research Council won influential backing this week with a plea from 43 Nobel prizewinners. A group led by Erwin Neher, winner of the 1991 Nobel prize for medicine, appeared...
Strathclyde University law students have saved the day for a bride-to-be who was told her £400 deposit could not be refunded after her wedding dress was made to the wrong measurements. The students,...