Nataliya Suchok, 18, from Kiev, Ukraine, applied to study a full-time BTec national diploma in health studies at North West Kent College in June, but her application was refused on July 13. The...
Most Oxford University colleges are receiving a worse rate of return on their investments than they would get by depositing their money in a high-street bank account, independent financial analysts...
Making money from consultancy - one of the few perks left to poorly paid academics - is under threat from reforms designed to account more clearly for university finances. But now King's College...
Admitting students to university on the basis of A-level results rather than predicted grades is an "idea whose time has come", according to the Government's top adviser on higher education. Sir Alan...
Nottingham University's links with China were criticised this week after it emerged that the university gave an honorary degree to a former Chinese education minister who is the subject of criminal...
We'll overhaul 14-19 education, minister tells party conference. Phil Baty reports Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, injected an element of bravado into his conference speech this week when he...
Naheed Arshad-Mather is a Muslim who demonstrated against the war in Iraq. She is also a self-proclaimed socialist and an activist in a trade union that fought vociferously against top-up fees. So it...
The binary divide between old and new universities persists in the higher education sector, official figures published this week confirm. The statistics highlight the uphill struggle facing research...
University spin-off activities could grind to a halt as attempts to resolve an ongoing dispute over tax reached an impasse this week. Encouraging technology transfer and university enterprise has...
Lecturers' leaders have criticised Durham University over plans to abandon the "model statute" that has protected academic freedom and ensured "justice and fairness" for staff for 16 years. The...
Social commentators frequently deplore the breakdown of family bonds, but researchers have found that the humble bacterium can always count on close relatives when the going gets tough. Evolutionary...
As the pace of compliance with the Bologna Process of convergence of higher education systems varies across Europe, Ján Figel, the incoming Education Commissioner, has called for more involvement by...
Five students and a lecturer from the National University and the University of Antioquia who were kidnapped by the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Farc) have been freed. The biologists were...
François d'Aubert, the French Research Minister, has announced an extra €1 billion (£683 million) for research in 2005, in line with his Government's commitment to raise research spending by €3...
Less than five weeks before the US presidential election, a campaign is pushing for the right of students to vote in the towns where they attend school. The Student Voting Rights Campaign is a...