Despite all the noise about top-up fees and changes to student funding, what has been lacking is hard evidence on their impact. New research commissioned by the Department for Education and Skills...
...invest in a student instead and get yourself a percentage of future earnings, says Miguel Palacios In the face of depleted public coffers and pressure to increase tuition fees, students and policy...
Putting pressure on PhD students to complete theses in four years is misguided, insists Anthony Smith The funding councils have proposed that unless 70 per cent of full-time students at any higher...
By following a few basic rules, anyone can deliver a decent conference paper. Susan Bassnett offers some useful tips. What makes a successful conference? Cynics would say that as long as there is one...
There has been a flurry of vacancies in economics departments as universities bolster their strength for the next RAE, from a heavyweight chair at Cambridge to PhD studentships at St Andrews. Steve...
A Labour backbencher is so incensed at a national newspaper's suggestion that she supports her own party's plans to introduce top-up fees that she is suing for libel. The move demonstrates the uphill...
Private businesses may soon be able to call themselves universities as the government moves to scrap the requirement that institutions must have a minimum of 4,000 students, it was predicted this...
Sir Keith O'Nions, chief scientific adviser at the Ministry of Defence, will launch into a different sort of battle in January when he takes over as director-general of the research councils. The...
A claim that cleaners, porters and plumbers could earn more than lecturers under the current pay offer has rocked the delicate final negotiations over higher education pay. The Association of...
Key evidence that has helped persuade policy-makers to fund basic biomedical research the world over cannot be relied on, a new study has found. Analysis of work by US researchers Julius Comroe and...
Leading academics warned this week that plans to introduce tough regulations governing the use of human remains could seriously damage research. The final report of the human remains working group,...
Scottish and Welsh universities are excluded from a flagship US-UK technology transfer initiative because an existing English scheme is being used to finance it. An agreement announced this week by...
Student debt has escalated in the past four years, hitting poor students hardest, according to a government survey published this week. Between 1998-99 and 2002-03, anticipated average debt on...
The rising cost of studying for a degree has been good news for the Open University, which has recruited a record number of students aged under 25 this year. No longer the refuge of middle-aged...
Scottish education minister Jim Wallace has told universities to make better use of their existing funds rather than looking for more government cash, writes Olga Wojtas. Universities Scotland called...