HEFCE is planning to revise its relationship with universities and colleges. It wants to look at accountability for public funds in cases where an institution is collaborating with another...
Thames Valley University has been judged one of the country's top providers of further education courses, writes Alan Thomson. Twenty-eight (71 per cent) of the 40 TVU further education courses...
Education secretary David Blunkett has rejected pleas by the Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals to delay his review of universities' procedures for handling complaints. Mr Blunkett is...
Vice-chancellors and higher education college heads are preparing for a showdown with the government and quality chiefs over plans for tougher rules on university titles and degree-awarding powers....
(Photograph) - School children across Wales are taking part in a hands-on Cardiff University research project. Each child is given a worm-watch kit to help them identify the 15 or so different...
Europe's science ministers meet in Brussels next week to decide the future of the continent's space programme. Issues under discussion include the planned Mars Express mission and the United Kingdom'...
Scotland is leading the United Kingdom with its blueprint for a national framework covering all qualifications, from those for people with learning difficulties to postgraduate degrees. The Scottish...
Engineers at University of Wales, Bangor, have joined forces with a new biomedical company in the United States to exploit an electronic method for rapidly detecting cancer cells. Developed by a team...
The National Institute of Health is proposing to launch a radical scheme for publishing biology research papers on the web. The NIH is consulting the scientific community on the proposal, which has...
Ask people to describe the study of geography and most will mention fieldwork. But there has been surprisingly little analysis of what fieldwork is and how it developed. "We often write about the...
Women students from across Northern Ireland have been debating their role in the province's future development at the National Union of Students-Union of Students in Ireland women's annual conference...
When Rodney Bickerstaffe was elected general secretary of Britain's biggest union, Unison, in November 1995, he turned down a Pounds 9,000 pay rise. "What you don't have, you don't miss," he said at...
A bill to set up a Franco-German university has been backed by the French national assembly's foreign affairs committee. The bill will be presented to the full assembly next week, but several...
(Photograph) - Perdita Phillips, artist in residence at Royal Holloway's department of geography, has created an exhibition inspired by geography fieldwork. Ms Phillips trained as an environmental...
The fraud squad have been called into crisis-hit Bilston Community College following suspected financial irregularities. West Midlands' Police this week confirmed: "We have been asked by the Further...