Students are neglecting the most essential workplace skill demanded by employers - teamwork - according to a survey. Teamworking emerged as the lowest rated skill, according to a survey of more than...
Details of who is paying universities for the privilege of exploiting their research and technology have emerged for the first time from an interim report by Nottingham University Business School....
Turkish president Ahmet Necdet Sezer has called for sweeping democratic reforms of higher education in what is seen as a direct attack on the controlling higher education authority. At ceremony to...
ߣߣÊÓƵ's vice-chancellors say the federal government's plans for higher education will reduce university autonomy, adversely affect overseas student numbers and deter poor students from enrolling...
Colleges should be given the freedom to design their own vocational qualifications as part of a radical review of the nature and purpose of further education that is needed to meet the government's...
Some further education colleges plan to apply for taught-degree awarding powers and may bid for a university title under new rules proposed by the government, writes Tony Tysome. Large "mixed economy...
A greener environment with cleaner water could threaten one of the UK's greatest wildlife spectacles - the 2 million water birds that come to spend the winter on estuarine and non-estuarine coasts,...
Drama departments are under threat from government plans to divide higher education into a small number of elite research universities and a "large tail" of teaching institutions, the discipline's...
A whole class of art and design students has been mistakenly told they have been turned down by their first choice of university. The error was spotted only when their course tutor at Dunstable...
A group led by engineers at the University of Birmingham intends to do away with the "fog of war", the uncertainty and danger that have plagued the battlefield for centuries, and replace it with...
The best way to get a foot in a US advertising agency's door is to speak with an English accent, while UK firms prefer humanities graduates, according to new research, writes Natasha Gilbert. Chris...
A higher education institute designed to promote the idea of a unified Europe was officially opened last week by Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski, just before the weekend referendum in which...
French education minister Luc Ferry has been forced to postpone his flagship reforms that will give more autonomy to universities until at least autumn. Prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin last week...
The government has announced plans to "fast forward" reforms in further education, writes Tony Tysome. Lifelong learning minister Margaret Hodge said this week that the Learning and Skills Council...
Further education and sixth-form students have become so overloaded with exams that they may fail to develop the independent and creative thinking skills needed to succeed in higher education,...