Ucas Extra sparks rise in mid-year applications
More people are applying to university thanks in part to a service that matches candidates with available places before clearing begins. The number of applications up to March 24 is 3.6 per cent...
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£3.4bn NHS education budget threatened
A £3.4 billion annual budget that covers all health education bar undergraduate medical education is under threat. Workforce development confederations, which manage the multiprofessional education...
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Thames gets all-clear
Thames Valley University has received a clean bill of health from the standards watchdog. The Quality Assurance Agency, which identified Thames as failing in 1999, endorsed academic quality and...
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Enterprising Middlesex
Middlesex University won the Queen's award for enterprise this week, in recognition of its recruitment of a high number of overseas students. It boosted overseas student numbers by 43 per cent...
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Staffs scoops £450k
Staffordshire University has won £450,000 funding that will make the region a centre of excellence for advanced mobile-phone technologies. The regional development agency cash will fund research and...
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Arts centre first
The "world's first" Centre for Applied Arts Research has been launched at University College Northampton. The centre has been set up to offer practical arts-based collaborative projects that can be...
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'We don't have a deficit - the university won't allow that'
Contrary to the bleak national trend, admissions to study chemistry were up this year at the University of Exeter. But Tony Legon, head of the 4-rated department, said it was still a struggle to...
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Axe now hangs over chemistry at Kent
The chemistry degree programme at the University of Kent at Canterbury is the latest to face closure. This follows the news two weeks ago that King's College London may shut its acclaimed chemistry...
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UK aids search for mass graves
Scientists from two British universities are spearheading a search to locate some of the largest mass graves left behind following the Balkan conflicts. State-of-the-art equipment is being used by...
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Research council unveils relocation and rebuilding plans
The Medical Research Council is consulting on plans to move a large proportion of its research activity to Cambridge, writes Anna Fazackerley. The council has published a long-term investment...
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Research cash loss to cripple dancing
The flourishing development of British dance artistry and scholarship is in danger of being hobbled by the higher education white paper, the discipline's representative body has warned. Since the...
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Whistleblowers: Disgraced researcher rebuilds career in US
A scientist sacked from Cambridge's prestigious Babraham Institute over fraudulent research is working successfully in the US, The THES can reveal. Tor Savidge was dismissed from Babraham in 1997...
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English policy gives Scotland headache
In the run-up to the Scottish Parliamentary elections on May 1, the BBC commissioned a survey to gauge public opinion about 21 policies that future MSPs might pursue. The most unpopular proposal was...
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Esa asks students to make space more roomy
For any student who has experienced the cramped delights and organised chaos of camping, a new international design challenge should appeal. Space is always at a premium - how to pack five tons of...
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Rocky road for FE as heads go
Further education's two most prominent and influential organisations face significant challenges in the coming year as their chief executives stand down. John Harwood, chief executive of the Learning...