Universities will be able to tell whether they are inadvertently discriminating against students from under-represented groups by using a service launched by the Universities and Colleges Admissions...
Almost 2,000 Pakistani students studying in the United Kingdom could face problems following last week's military coup. Self-funding students are experiencing difficulties in getting money out of the...
The Scottish Further Education Funding Council has unveiled radical plans for distributing funds. Colleges have been unhappy with the retrospective Scottish Office funding system that was based on...
Chaplains warn of abusive sect A former student at Birmingham University, Susannah was in her second year when she bumped into Sophie. "At the time I was feeling lonely and vulnerable. Through Sophie...
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Universities are accused of passing the costs of online learning on to staff and students in a study which has found that up to 90 per cent of academics use their own computers to work from home....
Liberal Democrats this week accused the education department of a "smoke and mirrors" approach to policy presentation that could have misled voters into thinking existing initiatives and money were...
Swindon is to have a campus offering degree and postgraduate programmes run by Bath University. It will be based in the town centre with a second site at Oakfield School, where teaching is due to...
Employers may back the introduction of two-year associate degrees amid claims that higher education churns out too many of the wrong sort of graduates. The national council of the National Training...
Some disabled people could be denied opportunities available in other parts of the country under the Learning to Succeed proposals, says Skill, the national bureau for students with disabilities, in...
(Photograph) - Debbie Baines, a physics and astrophysics student at Leeds University, with one of two state-of-the-art computer-controlled telescopes named in honour of oil merchant Scriven Bolton, a...
* A public policy centre for Wales opened last week at the University of Wales, Swansea. Under director Mike Sullivan, the centre brings together Swansea staff and healthcare managers from the...
Wellcome Trust director Michael Dexter has sought to assure employees at Daresbury Laboratory in Cheshire of the charity's impartiality over the location of the United Kingdom's new Pounds 200...
The Liberal Democrats' new education spokesman, Phil Willis, has called on top universities to account for the hundreds of millions in taxpayers' cash they receive for research. Mr Willis issued his...
The University of Hertfordshire is to relaunch itself as a singlecampus more selective university, combining a new building programme with higher student entrance requirements. Planning permission...