The Department for Education and Skills made "no detailed assessments" of any alternative top-up fee levels before setting the £3,000 limit, according to a senior civil servant, writes Phil Baty....
As the fees market takes hold, universities and colleges must balance three aims: maximising additional fee income, expenditure on student support packages and investment in the quality of the...
Charles Hendry this week became the Shadow Minister for ÌÇÐÄVlog in a mini reshuffle prior to the general election, expected in May. Mr Hendry, who has been Conservative MP for Wealdon since...
Research in Wales will receive a £46.5 million boost over two years from 2006-07, the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding Council for Wales announced this week. The money, from the Science Research Investment...
The House of Commons Science and Technology Select Committee this week waded into the battle over the proposed move of the Medical Research Council's National Institute for Medical Research to a...
Cost-cutting plans to replace university librarians with computers and lower-grade library assistants have caused alarm across the sector in the UK and worldwide. Subject librarians and library...
Sixth-formers may have traditionally fretted about their love lives or their acne, but a radical new education project has plunged them into deeper waters - seeking a possible cure for cancer and...
The Liberal Democrats have issued a "hitlist" of university-dominated constituencies where the student vote alone could win them Parliamentary seats in the expected May general election. The party...
Universities are neglecting a multibillion-pound market on their doorstep while devoting increasing time and energy to attracting overseas students, a new report says. The Learning and Skills Council...
Graduate starting-salary rises are expected to hit a five-year high this year, with some employers offering top candidates up to £35,000. Firms represented by the Association of Graduate Recruiters...
Dissension between conservatives and liberals continues to rage on US campuses. Each side claims the other is preventing it from expressing its views. A conservative legislator in the Midwestern...
Strewth! "Strine" is disappearing from the mouths of Australians, and the TV programme Kath and Kim could be to blame, writes Geoff Maslen in Melbourne. Linguists at Sydney's Macquarie University...
The vice-chancellor, the chairman and a psychiatry professor at Gothenburg University have been charged with "intentional or negligent misconduct" by Sweden's justice ombudsman after failing to...
Moderate Muslim academics are to explore how their universities can be used to secure social and economic development in ways that could reconcile differences within their communities. They want to...
Ministers from the 40 states signed up to the Bologna Process will be urged to put social issues at the top of the agenda for Europe's higher education arena when they meet in Bergen in May. At the...