A love of Irish folk tales was the unlikely starting point for an Austrian academic's part in creating the first Welsh-German dictionary. The dictionary has been launched, along with a Welsh-French...
Dundee and St Andrews universities, once a single institution, are launching an ambitious partnership backed by more than Pounds 300,000 from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. Dundee...
(Photograph) - Building reputation: fashion design students at Birmingham Institute of Art and Design created innovative garments from building materials for a catwalk presentation at a construction...
A network of 50 projects to improve university provision for students with disabilities is to be coordinated by a National Disability Team, based in Coventry University's Centre for Research and...
The president of the EIS, John Patton, has called for the restoration of national negotiating rights for Scottish further education lecturers. The then employers' association withdrew from national...
The government gave its lifelong learning flagship, the University for Industry, a fair wind last week with an Pounds 84 million budget for its autumn launch. Higher education minister Baroness...
The Universities Superannuation Scheme has a surplus of 8 per cent - Pounds 1.44 billion. Of this, Pounds 201 million will go to improve member benefits and Pounds 561.3 million has gone to lower the...
Keele University could become the first university to bring its academic-related staff into the Universities Superannuation Scheme, under rule changes announced by the USS in March. A spokesman for...
The extent of mismanagement at the North East Wales Institute is revealed in the unpublished recommendations of an investigation by the Welsh funding council, obtained by The THES. The...
Governance and management at Bolton College is so weak that the college has been failing to meet its statutory responsibilities, according to an inspection report from the Further Education Funding...
Rising levels of student debt could damage one of Britain's oldest traditions - the student newspaper - according to leaders of the recently created Student Press Association. Chris Wright, Spa chair...
The Educational Institute of Scotland is preparing for local talks in the new universities following its members' acceptance of a revised contract for new staff. The EIS University Lecturers'...
Students are proving uninterested in creating the robots needed for Britain's future factories as numbers enrolling for manufacturing courses continue to fall. Two leading university-based groups in...
It was when Peter Lampl returned to England after 15 years in the United States and found that his old grammar school had gone private, his school friends were paying for their children's education...
TV heroine Xena is used to overcoming opponents, but can she survive academic scrutiny? In the latest issue of the Journal for Cultural and Religious Theory, David Adcock, a religious studies...