Social scientists could find it easier to get ideas direct to government through a network being set up by the Economic and Social Research Council. The initiative, which will cost the ESRC Pounds 2....
Universities will lose millions in unpaid tuition fees when new laws remove their most effective weapon in the battle to force students to pay, finance chiefs have warned. Experts are predicting...
(Photograph) - Noh way: the Noh studio at Royal Holloway, University of London, has been redeveloped at a cost of nearly Pounds 500,000, courtesy of businessman and performer Haruhisa Handa, vice-...
Academics worldwide have attacked plans by the School of Oriental and African Studies to accept a donation from the Iranian government. They say it raises questions about good governance and that...
Jonathan Osmond (Letters, THES, December 3) has misremembered Lucky Jim. The joke about desirable regions of London appears not once but twice in the novel. Just as there is a passage concluding "No...
Rome's Third University and Italy's equal opportunities commission are to offer prizes for graduation theses on human rights issues as part of a joint endeavour to celebrate the 50th anniversary of...
A new study will examine the effects of tuition fees on higher education, including the possibility that some universities could close while others become increasingly specialised. The National...
The chairman of the independent inquiry into Scottish student finance, Andrew Cubie, will resist his report being hijacked by political infighting. His inquiry was set up because of the rift between...
Further education colleges are stepping up the quantity and quality of research they do in response to the government's lifelong learning agenda, writes Alan Thomson. Well over 100 colleges, at least...
Northern Ireland's first minister for further and higher education has taken up office amid controversy over the share-out of executive posts. Ian Paisley's Democratic Unionists have accused the...
(Photograph) - Hush-a-bye baby: mum Eleanor Robertson and her 19-week-old son Lewis have volunteered to sleep in a laboratory at Durham University for three nights. Researchers are investigating the...
The FEFC also invoked its new powers at Sheffield College, imposing two FEFC-approved governors to rescue the country's second largest college from potential financial collapse. Whistleblowers, page 8
Juan Corradi, director of New York University's branch in Florence, has declined to comment on rumours that Chelsea Clinton is to spend six months studying there. NYU, Florence, is housed in the...
Quality chiefs have told Heriot-Watt University to address "shortcomings" in the quality control of its collaborative arrangements, including its prestigious link with the Edinburgh College of Art....
The Committee of Scottish Higher Education Principals has pledged to support any university fighting proposals to axe the distinctive MA title for undergraduate degrees. A Coshep spokesman said: "We...