Universities need to teach working-class students social and "life skills" or many will fail to earn as much as their middle-class peers when they graduate, a report has warned. Research commissioned...
Furious lecturers' leaders said they could no longer support government plans for widening participation and called higher education minister Margaret Hodge "a disgrace" at their annual council last...
Further education colleges are hampered by funding and quality-control constraints in their efforts to help deliver government targets for expanding higher education, college leaders said this week....
The Association of University Teachers must form a federation with other education trade unions to survive an uncertain future of diversification, mergers and local pay bargaining, a discussion paper...
Sixteen universities will face the old-style teaching inspections that vice-chancellors thought they had seen the back of, the Quality Assurance Agency has confirmed, writes Phil Baty. Funding chiefs...
Scientists from Yorkshire were in Bonn this week to bid to host the world's most powerful neutron-scattering facility. The £1 billion project would be a major centre for the study of physics,...
Students are getting a raw deal at university because money is being drained from teaching and research to support the government's widening participation (WP) drive. Research shows that the...
Worldwide, there is a worrying shortage of scientists but Canada has made huge strides in tackling the problem. The THES reports There are widespread assumptions that Canada is better suited to...
Worldwide, there is a worrying shortage of scientists but Canada has made huge strides in tackling the problem. The THES reports Science towers over Canada's enriched research landscape. But its...
Worldwide, there is a worrying shortage of scientists but Canada has made huge strides in tackling the problem. The THES reports US-born John Abela says his career path would have worked out very...
Worldwide, there is a worrying shortage of scientists but Canada has made huge strides in tackling the problem. The THES reports Ray Rajotte is happy to stay in Edmonton. While most successful...
Worldwide, there is a worrying shortage of scientists but Canada has made huge strides in tackling the problem. The THES reports Canadian universities are at the heart of a series of research...
Worldwide, there is a worrying shortage of scientists but Canada has made huge strides in tackling the problem. The THES reports There is an acknowledged worldwide shortage of scientists, especially...
Funding chiefs are monitoring reforms to student complaints procedures at the University of Central Lancashire after a blind student with one leg suffered unnecessary distress over the handling of...
Kilted bartenders, emulating Tom Cruise's bar-room skills in the film Cocktail , are the stars of the newly launched Strathclyde University student business start-up, Liquid Assets. The professional...