Higher education institutions that concentrate exclusively on teaching may not be worthy of the name university, the chair of the Commons education and skills select committee, Barry Sheerman, warned...
St Andrews University's students association has welcomed Prince William's highlighting of student hardship in an interview marking his 21st birthday, writes Olga Wojtas. The prince, who is finishing...
Further education colleges should play a central role in the government's forthcoming skills strategy - but only if they are willing to compete for training contracts with private providers -...
Further education in Northern Ireland has been given a £134 million funding boost. Some £120 million of the cash will be allocated to colleges according to student numbers, enrolment, duration of...
Keele University managers have defended a complex financial deal that union leaders claim will cost the institution £45 million. The managers denied that they failed to take professional advice on...
A key group of young people is being largely ignored as the government reshapes education and training, according to a study. Challenges faced by those aged 19 to 25 are at least as great as those of...
Proposals to ban chemicals that could cause birth defects and reproductive damage to animals may be based on inadequate science, a British professor will tell members of the European Parliament on...
Scotland must go it alone on research funding in the wake of the Roberts report if it does not want to see its research base decimated, a university principal has warned. Bernard King of the...
More than half the former teaching staff at Liverpool John Moores University's journalism department were critical of "a general eagerness to avoid failing any student" when they worked there. In...
Many UK universities are undercapitalised and near the limit of their ability to borrow, say economists at HSBC bank. Universities are threatened by the planned expansion of further education...
A social anthropologist at Queen's University, Belfast, has found that musical memories can help people who have suffered traumatic loss in Northern Ireland's Troubles. Volunteers in Omagh,...
Stevan Harnad Professor of cognitive science Department of electronics and computer science Southampton University. Unlike journalists or book authors, researchers receive no royalties or fees for...
By destroying the balance in pay bargaining, Imperial College is freeloading, argues Tom Wilson If you care about the future of our higher education system, you should care about Imperial College...
The UK must grab its chance to become home of a neutrino factory, argues Ken Long What is a neutrino? An academic question, perhaps, but one that bears on some of the most fundamental questions in...
The University of Glamorgan gave Maria James (pictured) the chance to follow a career she had dreamt of since childhood, writes Tim Greenhalgh. Ms James, 19, from Merthyr Tydfil, said: "I always...