Helen Douglas (pictured right with student Ruzanna) has been a landlady for Edinburgh University for 25 years and has no doubt why she does it: for the money. For the minimum rent established by the...
Leeds University is tackling problems arising from the explosion in the number of private rentals in the city by introducing higher education's first comprehensive housing strategy. It aims to tackle...
The National Union of Students took a historic turn to the left this week as socialist Kat Fletcher broke 20 years of Labour Party dominance to become the union's president. In a ballot so close that...
Brenda is a large woman whose desire to lose weight is thwarted by her appetite. She has long hair, bad skin and is shortsighted. Her parents are still alive, she lives for holidays and has a long-...
Most university departments with top 5* research ratings will find themselves relegated to second-division status under plans for the next research assessment exercise, it has been revealed. The...
Architecture students who take a year of paid work experience in the middle of their training will not have to make early repayments of their tuition fees, the government has confirmed. Alan Johnson...
Scientists in Aberdeen University's bone research group are leading a team of European experts in developing treatments for osteoporosis. The three-year E3 million (£2.1 million) Anabonos project,...
James Lusty, vice-chancellor of the University of Wales College, Newport, has been elected chairman of ÌÇÐÄVlog Wales, the body that represents Welsh vice-chancellors. He will take up the...
Two lawsuits filed by disgruntled individuals unable to get their work in the arXiv e-print archive - the principal forum for physics research - have been dismissed in the US. Courts in Georgia and...
The Association of Colleges has backed moves to limit increases in top-up fees from 2010. John Brennan, AoC chief executive, said this week that college heads believed allowing universities to charge...
The Scottish Executive hopes to widen participation in further and higher education with a £49 million programme that will give cash to young people who stay on at school or college. Jim Wallace,...
Academics at Cambridge University will have to ask the authorities for permission to make money from their ideas under new intellectual property proposals, it was claimed this week. Revised IP...
Research into how to deal with public health threats such as severe acute respiratory syndrome, terrorism and obesity is being dangerously neglected, some of the country's leading health experts...
The Treasury was accused this week of setting an unwelcome "constitutional precedent" by excluding government colleagues from plans to set up a £65 million partnership between Cambridge University...
Blue skies or blue chip - which way should research go? Claire Sanders reports University departments doing research vital to the future of the UK economy are under threat from the research...