Top-up fees are non-negotiable, the government said this week as it faced a growing backbench rebellion over higher education and student funding plans. A senior government source told The THES it...
Government plans to charge tuition fees of up to £3,000 a year are fairer to the poor than Conservative proposals to abolish fees altogether, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said this week. The IFS...
Student depression The human cost of the government's higher education policies Warmonger Ariel Sharon's violent policies are attacked in an incendiary new book by Jewish academic Baruch Kimmerling...
Discovering how much students knew about the world helped Roger Ottewill learn new ways to teach politics Lecturers frequently express surprise at how little students know about the world about them...
Pat Leon asks a winner of this year's National Teaching Fellowship Awards how he manages Name: Allan Owens Age: 46 Job: Senior lecturer in drama and theatre studies at Chester College of Higher...
The US Supreme Court this week sounded the death knell for affirmative action in university admissions, even as it upheld the University of Michigan's right to consider race as a factor in its...
Academics reacted with disappointment this week to the discovery that the long-awaited genetics white paper provided only a "small" boost for research. The white paper, published on Tuesday by the...
• Sir Brandon Gough, chair of banknote manufacturer De La Rue, has been named chancellor of the University of East Anglia. Sir Brandon chaired the Higher Education Funding Council for England from...
Higher education will inherit one of industry's great communicators in September when Norman Askew becomes chair of the new company that will oversee the merger of Manchester University and the...
Scientists in South Africa and other developing countries should spend less time chasing Nobel prizes and do more to help build sustainable economies, Commonwealth science policy leaders have been...
Pictures of bioscience subjects such as squid, algae and pine forests are now available free from the Learning and Teaching Support Network bioscience ImageBank. The subject centre has collected more...
Imperial College London has launched an online mathematics A-level tutor designed to bridge the gap between school and university study. Metric will offer strong students self-test exercises, online...
Inspirational and outstanding economics lecturers are potential candidates for three prizes offered by the Learning and Teaching Support Network economics subject centre. Winners will receive £250 in...
The Enterprise Group at Cranfield University is working with European university partners to build an online community for people over 40 who are interested in learning about starting and managing...
The University of Glamorgan is leading a two-year project to investigate Wales' potential to run on hydrogen. Dennis Hawkes of Glamorgan's School of Applied Science, and his wife, Freda, of the...