Jan Southern took an access course at the University of Northumbria before embarking on a degree in occupational therapy and graduating with a first. She left school aged 15 to work in a bank....
Sunday On location in rural Mexico to examine an educational project encouraging students to take control of their own learning. I am part of a team of external examiners working with Conafe (...
South Africa's former homeland universities are still struggling post-apartheid, says Hugh Macmillan South Africa's six black and rural universities are in crisis. The bantustans, or homelands, have...
During his acceptance speech for the Democratic Party nomination, United States vice-president Al Gore pledged to fight for tax-free college savings programmes and to make most college tuition tax-...
Bucharest University student union has threatened to open the new academic year with a strike unless the government raises its scholarships and hostel subsidies and offers a 50 per cent discount on...
* Recruitment - ensure that prospective students make well-informed choices, particularly those recruited through clearing. Make sure students are clear about the demands of the subject. Check that...
Tina South is a second-year midwifery student. She left school after taking her A levels and worked in a path-ology laboratory. Her husband's job took him to Newcastle, and he encouraged her to enrol...
The Scottish Highers marking fiasco has added to the usual clearing confusion Scottish universities have lost patience with the Scottish Qualification Authority's delays in revising pupils'...
Check out our guide to Clearing 2015 Despite efforts to guide potential students into courses that match both their abilities and their interests, many students are still undecided about what to...
Interesting choice of speaker at a conference designed to ensure the high quality of university learning, teaching and assessment. The "More means better!" conference at Leeds Metropolitan University...
Anglia Polytechnic University is increasingly desperate to shake off its origins, inconveniently celebrated in its name. An attempt to rename itself the University of Eastern England received short...
Ian Macdonald, chairman of the board of the Commonwealth of Learning, and speaker at a University of Abertay, Dundee conference for the heads of commonwealth universities in Africa, told them the one...
Deputy prime minister John "two Jags" Prescott had a view of alternative travel at the University of Southampton last week. Staff at the oceanography centre told him about developments in marine...
Sulky, monosyllabic and spotty, Kevin the teenager, the obnoxious creation of comic Harry Enfield, seems like an unlikely advocate of the government's "Don't Quit Now" campaign, which aims to...
The University of Liverpool has appointed: Richard Gillespie, professor of Iberian and Latin American studies at the University of Portsmouth, to the chair of politics; Martin Leuwer, professor of...