More adults are taking up education and training, but new technologies have widened the divide between the "learning rich" and "learning poor". Three reports published in the run-up to next week's...
Staff at the University of Exeter are alarmed at the tactics the university plans to use to maximise its score in the next research assessment exercise. Under the proposals, some staff members would...
Almost 300 redundancies are expected at seven universities,with 200 of them at two London medical schools. The Association of University Teachers condemned the threat of compulsory redundancy at the...
Government plans to professionalise university teaching suffered a setback last week with a threat from higher education's largest lecturers' union to boycott the Institute of Learning and Teaching....
(Photograph) - Robert Senior of the University of Northumbria is one of the winners of this year's Royal Society of Arts student design awards thanks to his novel "phone-fob" alarm design. The alarm...
Academic authors are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds in revenues from the use of their work for teaching and research because the Copyright Licensing Agency cannot manage the complex system of...
A sex attacker serving life for subjecting a fellow Southampton University student to a terrifying ordeal failed in a High Court bid for the right to take an Open University degree. Lawyers for Larry...
Parents of students who study abroad on Erasmus programmes tend to be more highly qualified than the parents of other students, according to a European Commission report. The report aimed to...
Friday Only a masochist would choose to spend the night at the unlovely Hounslow civic centre. I had planned, after the polls closed, to thank my helpers, go home and watch the expected Tory victory...
Even union leaders need a break from industrial strife, it seems. As revealed by education secretary David Blunkett at the Association of University Teachers' Summer Council, AUT general secretary...
There is a simple solution to the difficulties faced by the blind and partially sighted at Nottingham University's new Jubilee Campus (page 3). Before it opened, education secretary David Blunkett...
Regular diary readers cannot have missed the fact that universities have been going football crazy in an attempt to woo students. It was, therefore, only a matter of time before rugby got in on the...
Students at Kent University displayed their radicalism last week, first by demonstrating outside the registry, then by occupying a senate building in a protest against changes to the exam timetable....
Adult Learners Week, which begins next week for the ninth time, will be largely the creation of one man. Alan Tuckett, director of the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education since 1988,...
David Fletcher, registrar and secretary of the University of Sheffield, has been appointed secretary of the Committee of University Chairmen. He will succeed Michael Shattock in January. David Porter...