University museums and libraries are keeping hundreds of millions of pounds of valuable assets uninsured against theft, it emerged this week. The Pounds 3 million Cezanne stolen from the Ashmolean...
Dozens of further education colleges have failed to comply with new rules on including student governors on their boards, says the National Union of Students. The union, which holds its first student...
The Foreign Office is to investigate complaints that visa officials are blocking genuine overseas students' entry into the United Kingdom. The Association of Colleges has complained that entry...
The Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, has offered his "profound apologies" for a series of blunders in his handling of a student's complaint against Bath University. He admitted his department lacks the...
Higher education college heads have launched a sweeping review of their umbrella organisation following a similar exercise last year by vice-chancellors. The Standing Conference of Principals is...
(Photograph) - Alexander Li attends a college computing class for teachers, despite being only 11. He wrote to Anniesland College in Glasgow saying he had a PC but wanted to learn how to use an Apple...
More higher education students in Wales are choosing courses that relate directly to future employment, say new statistics. Figures published by the Welsh funding councils in further and higher...
Lecturers are demanding more than Pounds 3.3 billion extra for higher education in the government's next comprehensive spending review. In its submission to the review this week, lecturers' union...
(Photograph) - Pier review: civil engineering students from the University of Plymouth have been working with counterparts from the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain studying coastal erosion. Pictured...
Scottish finance minister Jack McConnell this week hinted at extra funds for higher education in the wake of the Cubie report but stressed that these would have to come from existing budgets. The...
The Scottish people do not overwhelmingly believe in the principle of free higher education, a leading education expert has revealed. The Scottish Liberal Democrat, Conservative and National parties...
Captains of industry have called for a radical overhaul of the research assessment exercise. The RAE's method of assessing and grading departments should be replaced with one that focuses instead on...
A group of Scottish universities that plans to use birthday cards to help widen access has won Pounds 500,000 from the Scottish Higher Education Funding Council. SHEFC has made wider participation a...
Cambridge University is defying a sector-wide concordat by persisting with a policy to force its non-permanent research staff to waive their rights to statutory redundancy payments. The use of waiver...
Thames Valley University may need more cash from the funding council for a major restructuring programme that will tap into the lucrative business market. Vice-chancellor Ken Barker has informally...