The most contentious proposal is to abolish fees for Scottish students in Scotland, while Scots studying elsewhere in the United Kingdom will continue to pay fees. A Scottish student is one who was...
Security agents disrupted a rally by students from the Universite Nationale of the Democratic Republic of Congo outside the home of Olinga Koy, a former university teacher and a leading opposition...
More students are delaying applying to university, according to figures released today by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service. The number of potential students who applied by the...
(Photograph) - Pole position: Wladyslaw Bednarowski, 94, a former reader in logic at Aberdeen University, has endowed a trust to promote Polish and Scottish academic ties. Dr Bednarowski became a...
In vitro fertilisation pioneer Simon Fishel told the High Court this week that as part of a push to attract high-profile financial support to Nottingham University, he asked Richard Branson to back a...
An internationally acclaimed biomedical engineer and his personal assistant defrauded the University of Keele and a health authority of thousands of pounds earmarked for research projects, a court...
A bid by Chelsea College of Art and Design to move to Millbank, next to the Tate Gallery, has received a big boost with the gallery's trustees throwing their weight behind the plan. The site, the...
The European Space Agency's bid to land a probe on a comet has been plagued by management delays that threaten to derail the whole project. Officials have introduced a package of radical measures in...
Lecturers' union Nathfe has called on academics across the United Kingdom to "isolate" the University of Derby with a national boycott until it increases pay in line with an agreed deal. The union...
A catalogue of mismanagement by a husband-and-wife team at Hull University, involving the irregular inflation of overseas students' degree results and unaccountable decision-making, has attracted the...
One of Britain's biggest publishing bodies has produced a draft "licence to publish" that promises to result in many of its members handing over copyright on journal articles to their authors. The...
(Photograph) - In league: Sunderland University and Sunderland Association Football Club have signed an official partnership deal to promote learning both at home and away. Peter Fidler, left,...
Nineteen students have won a rebate of half their course fees after Bournemouth University admitted teaching and equipment problems. Students on the digital special effects masters degree complained...
David Caldwell, the new director of the Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals, has denied that the committee is a "creature of the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals". He has...
Adobe Systems has updated its Acrobat Reader application to allow users to unlock e-books delivered in Portable Document Format (PDF) and encrypted by PDF Merchant software. Details and download: www...