Toni Berg, 18, is taking A-levels at Cadbury Sixth Form College in Birmingham. She has visited Glasgow University and is due to sample the University of Kent at Canterbury soon. Her favourite so far...
Bournemouth University signed private contractors to run its canteen. Elaine Carlton reports on the results The centrepiece of the tour for any prospective student is not the library, lecture...
Peter Sandy looks at how fees and loans raise expectations of value-for money housing and services A lecturer friend complained about a student who not only had his mobile phone switched on during a...
Regional differences in funding may be affecting students' choices of where they study, argues Stephen Court LINKS between universities and their regions, including the "nation-regions" of Scotland,...
Monday Up early in a cold sweat. Today's the day Angel FM goes on air, broadcasting my students' work live to north London. They've had endless lessons in how not to commit libel, and strict...
Since the 1980s France has undergone a number of changes that have triggered a major identity crisis. On the one hand, unemployment and the inability of the state to deal with it; on the other, the...
Fixed-term contracts have been part of the university system for decades. Properly used they will always have a place. Unfortunately, universities are no longer the experts on fixed-term contracts....
Everything in the university garden is still rosy, says Ted Nield. Shame about the rest of the estate Some of the happiest moments of my undergraduate life that were not spent in the Victoria Arms...
Well-heeled executives are feeding the coffers of Britain's booming business schools. Francis Beckett investigates The rest of higher education may be feeling the pinch, but business schools are...
The government and the British Council have announced details of a one-year scholarship scheme to support students affected by the Asia currency crisis. Universities and colleges have been given...
Students who study a full year in Europe under the European Union's Erasmus/Socrates project will be spared tuition fees for that year, education minister Baroness Blackstone confirmed this week. She...
AMID Turkish anger at being rebuffed by the European Union, the country's university authority, YOK, is negotiating with United Kingdom universities to cut fees for Turkish students. Kemal Guruz, YOK...
Turkey's military this week called for legal restrictions to halt Turkish students studying in Islamic countries. The demand follows YOK's decision late last year to stop recognising degrees awarded...
The government will fund less than half of the start-up costs of its flagship University for Industry, ministers confirmed this week. And question marks remain over its long-term funding. Launching...
The Quality Assurance Agency will look into unconventional uses of the title "university" by the University for Industry and British Aerospace's "virtual university" as part of a review for the...