The government's commitment to a fundamental shift in the relationship between higher education and business was reinforced at a skills launch on Tuesday. Charles Clarke, secretary of state for...
More and more students are getting good degrees, according to figures released this week by the Higher Education Statistics Agency. Some 58 per cent obtained first or upper second-class honours in...
Students from poor families should pay the same tuition fees as those from rich families, the Parliamentary Universities Group heard this week. Steven Schwartz, vice-chancellor of Brunel University,...
Ten Sheffield students have been taken to hospital and 90 others immunised with the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine after an outbreak of mumps in the city. GPs in Sheffield have reported a huge...
The new UK Biosciences Federation is struggling to find sufficient money to support its long-term aim of becoming the definitive voice for biology. The federation, which is not due to launch...
A college lecturer was one of three people convicted this week for deception in the Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? trial. A jury concluded that Tecwen Whittock's strategic coughing during the...
Any attempt to relax the laws on the trade of artefacts must be resisted, says Colin Renfrew. Iraq is one of the most archaeologically significant countries in the world. The earliest urban...
Careers services are adapting to new challenges, but graduates and employers must be realistic, says Simon Hamm. Graduate recruitment is a game of trial and error. The anarchical system we operate in...
The government faced renewed opposition to forthcoming top-up fee legislation this week after failing to appease Labour Party opponents with details of a university access regulator, described as...
Academics fear that Iraq's cultural heritage is in danger as an influential group of American antiquities collectors manoeuvre for influence with the planned postwar military regime. International...
Paul Muldoon was shovelling snow when his publisher called. Winning the 2003 Pulitzer prize for poetry came "as a complete shock and surprise and is a terrific honour", said the Princeton University...
The new chief executive of the Association of Colleges is John Brennan, currently director of further education development. Mr Brennan joined the Department of Education and Science in 1968, after...
Unions representing more than 110,000 academics and 5 million students are "utterly opposed" to the government's plans for the biggest shake-up of higher education since the 1960s. Lecturers' union...
Universities keen to work with their local communities must be properly funded and receive national recognition, a pressure group has claimed in response to the white paper, writes Claire Sanders....
Improved research is key to closing the productivity gap with the US, chancellor Gordon Brown told MPs in his budget speech on Wednesday. He said that two-thirds of the gap was due to underfunded...