The government wants to reduce the dominance of business interests in college governance as part of measures to increase accountability in further education. Its consultation paper, Accountability in...
The government has secured a Pounds 160 million boost from the European Social Fund to support the University for Industry and other lifelong learning proposals. David Blunkett, secretary of state...
Strong teaching institutions have come out on top in the Welsh funding allocations for 1998-99, as the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales attempts to repair the damage done by last year's...
There will be no dramatic redistribution of Scottish higher education funds in the coming year. The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has already implemented its funding changes based on the...
The British system of attribution - whereby every pound a government department spends on the European Framework Programme for science is subtracted from its research and development budget - needs...
GLASNOST has arrived at the Council for Science and Technology after accusations of secrecy. Under new terms of reference, it will publish an annual report and all its advice. The number of...
scientific advice to the government is under the spotlight of the House of Commons' Science and Technology Committee. An inquiry announced this week will look at the uses and quality of advice from...
Universities stand to lose more than Pounds 130 million in fee income next academic year following the Asian markets crisis, a poll of institutions by Hobsons Publishing has revealed. Some 10 per...
(Photograph) - A student protester throws back a cannister of teargas which has just been thrown at him by Kenyan police during riots in Nairobi. The battles between the students, protesting against...
Imperial College's chemistry department and the centre for communication systems research at Surrey University have each pocketed Pounds 35,000 to improve infrastructure. They beat other university...
ABERDEEN University this week became the latest Scottish university to announce a bursary scheme to pay tuition fees for selected entrants, writes Olga Wojtas. Thirty bursaries will be awarded to...
Nigerian students opposed to the military regime of General Sani Abacha have vowed to continue their protests until power is handed to a democratically elected civilian government. Lagos was the...
The House of Lords has been taking evidence on European student exchange programmes. Discussion has focused on the imbalance between the number of European Union students coming to Britain and the...
Scientific enterprise has transformed life across the world in recent decades and is now doing so again. Research provides the knowledge base for information technology, biotechnology and the other...
Nick Chapman has been offered a job in his chosen career and he hasn't even finished his degree. This supplement is designed to give others the same opportunity and to help universities identify the...