Freshers off to flying start
Newly recruited students at the University of Central Lancashire have been offered a "flying start" four-day residential induction course to ease them in to higher education. The special summer...
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Ulster pupils change track
All 50 pupils in an Ulster University access scheme are set to enter higher education, despite 49 of them initially saying that they could never see themselves going to university. Ulster launched...
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Attacks on vocational study are 'confused and out of date'
Vocational higher education leaders have hit back at captains of industry who claim university education has been dumbed down by falling entry standards, writes Tony Tysome. The University Vocational...
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Brush-off for Hockney idea
David Hockney's celebrated theory that the Old Masters used mirrors and lenses to construct their paintings has been challenged by a British optics expert. The suggestion that many of the Renaissance...
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QAA chief misled committee, says Edexcel
The chairman of the Quality Assurance Agency has misled a committee of MPs, according to the troubled exam board Edexcel. QAA chairman Christopher Kenyon told the House of Commons education select...
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Professor 'duped' into giving in notice
A former Birmingham University sociology professor claims he was hoodwinked by senior officials into handing in his notice. Frank Webster was chair of sociology when Birmingham announced plans to...
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Need for guide on internet learning
The creation of a national e-learning authority to ensure technologies used by universities, colleges and schools comply with agreed standards is a step closer following an initiative by UfI...
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Title-holder in good shape
The tough regimen endured by Gloucestershire before gaining university status has been like a 'boot camp', but it's a fitter, leaner institution that's emerged. Tony Tysome reports Managers of the UK...
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MPs attack government over its lack of intelligence in spin-off sphere
The government's approach to the commercialisation of public-sector science has been slated by MPs. The Treasury says that commercialising research is key to stimulating greater economic and social...
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Corporate universities set to muscle in on the old school
Corporate universities such as Motorola U and the BT Academy could soon compete with traditional public-sector universities for students wanting a vocational education, two Open University Business...
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Hostility leaves NHSU on shaky ground
"Bitter legacies" could cripple the government's manifesto commitment to the National Health Service University, according to analysis from the Nuffield Trust. From Conception to Birth: A Policy...
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Inquiry as 'shoddy' thesis wins PhD
The University of Wales is to investigate allegations that a PhD was granted at Lampeter University even though examiners viewed its thesis as "a shoddy piece of work" and suspected that sections of...
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Exploding HIV vial was not a risk
Health inspectors were called to Cambridge University after a vial containing an HIV virus protein exploded in a genetic-modification containment facility, the Health and Safety Executive has...
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Findings: When viruses ruled the earth
When the first cellular life forms stirred on the earth, viruses may have already been poised to infect them, writes Steve Farrar. A radical hypothesis that seeks to bring order to the previously...
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Findings: Groomed for quick hug
The deal is straightforward. In return for some careful grooming, a female baboon is allowed to cuddle another's infant until the mother asks for its return, writes Steve Farrar. The exchange rate...