The British Library's public catalogue is available online free of charge for the first time. Users will be able to browse the British Library through Copac, which gives access to library catalogues...
Students at Leicester University are facing up to the strain and stresses of exams with a facial. Business is blooming for beauty therapist Razina Suida, who has set up business in the university's...
Edward Roberts, a 28-year-old BA graphic design student who has just completed his second year at Coventry University, has asked us to make clear that he did not contribute in any way to the report...
Real-terms funding per student in higher education will have dropped by just over 2 per cent between 1996-97 and 2002-03. Figures from the Department for Education and Skills this week show that real...
The foundation degree is in danger of being stigmatised as a "dumbed-down second-class qualification", according to Ivor Crewe, chair of the National Foundation Degree Group. Professor Crewe, vice-...
Cambridge University has blamed "insufficient" government funding for an £11.6 million deficit, which it says is threatening its ability to deliver excellent teaching. Although the blow was softened...
Belfast students are target of blast bomb There has been outrage in Belfast over the attempted murder of students in a house adjoining a nationalist area in the south of the city. A blast bomb...
The future role of the cash-strapped Institute for Learning and Teaching is in doubt. A committee chaired by Sir Ron Cooke, vice-chancellor of York University, wants to create a logical division of...
Vice-chancellors could find themselves accosted by monkeys begging for peanuts during degree ceremonies as union members stage a series of stunts aimed at causing maximum embarrassment in the fight...
Industrial relations in universities face meltdown after trade unions and employers failed to progress plans for a new career ladder, a week after unions rejected a 2.5 per cent pay offer, writes...
Lawyers acting for a man with mental health problems who has complained about the conduct of research he took part in at Staffordshire University have expressed "significant concerns" about the...
When The THES reported that lecturers at the private European School of Economics in London were having to teach students without many basic facilities and were facing regular battles just to get...
Ten years on from the end of binary divide in higher education, Claire Sanders assesses the successes and failures of new universities in a united sector Ten years ago Liverpool Polytechnic declined...
UK universities could be forced to charge VAT on research contracts after a ruling last week in the European Court of Justice. The ECJ ruled that German legislation, which exempts scientific research...
The city of Venice is being held in limbo by two conflicting forces of nature, both consequences of climate change, writes Steve Farrar. An increase in the number of surges caused by higher sea...