The Scottish post-school examination system, which has already undergone radical reforms, faces a further revolution within five years because of information technology. The prediction came from Ron...
The European Parliament wants each member state to spend at least 3 per cent of its gross domestic product on research - nearly double the current amount. Responding last week to the European...
British universities and colleges will be able to bid for grants from a E4.7 billion (Pounds 2.9 billion)budget, financed by the European Commission, writes Keith Nuthall. The money is earmarked for...
It was more like a movie premiere than the launch of a higher education recruitment campaign. Celebrities from the worlds of film, TV and fashion joined politicians and businessmen for a glitzy gala...
More than half of Northern Ireland graduates feel that their skills and talents are underused in the province's business and industry and that local employers do not help develop their skills,...
How does Cambridge University decide who to promote to one of the tiny number of esteemed personal professorships each year? Judging by a transcript of a taped formal feedback session given to a now-...
British chemical engineers are falling behind their US counterparts in carrying out leading-edge work, according to a new method of analysing citations of papers. And it seems the research assessment...
High-profile blunders and a wary public have led to calls for more guidance for professionals. Claire Sanders reports Professionals are under fire from the public and the government. The bodies that...
The General Dental Council is the statutory regulatory body of the UK dental profession. It is responsible for overseeing educational and professional standards. Dentists who fail to meet these can...
Monday After ten years of lecturing, spending a year as a Bar student was always going to be an odd experience. The course has certainly provided the insight into legal practice, life outside academe...
When Baroness Blackstone agreed to swap jobs for the morning with Joyce Taylor, chief executive of the Discovery Channel, to mark yesterday's Learning at Work Day, she was probably unaware of a song...
Thanks to the students' news-paper in Sheffield for drawing our attention to an interesting innovation by their counterparts in Cambridge. The Cambridge Student, recently started by the Cambridge...
Frank Pignatelli, chief executive of the Scottish University for Industry, has been outlining to the Scottish Parliament's enterprise and lifelong learning committee the difference between the SUfI...
How sweet. The Quality Support Centre announced this week it had changed its name. From now on it will be known as the more "neutral" Centre for Higher Education Research and Information. Neutral...
Steve Martin knows how important his new job as chief executive of the Welsh further and higher education funding councils is, and he thinks everyone else should know too. He is struck by how little...