Scottish ministers believe England's proposals for top-up fees will lead to extra funds north of the border. It had been thought that top-up fees would have no bearing on Scottish funding since it...
A Reading college has been forced to scrap its computing degrees after becoming the first institution to fail a reinspection by higher education quality watchdogs under the current subject review...
Muddled thinking by academics has exposed "conscientious, hard-working and law-abiding" students to accusations of cheating, according to a plagiarism expert. Educational developer Peter Levin says...
Students at the University of Sussex have begun moves to break away from the National Union of Students after a close vote at their annual general meeting last week. The students will now hold a...
Postgraduates! Want to fail your viva? Then be defensive, get angry, throw questions back to examiners, show reluctance to engage in debate about your work or fail to pick up on examiners' cues to...
The amateur antiquarian whom many blame for the Piltdown man forgery has been exposed as a serial hoaxer whose creations fooled palaeontologists, archaeologists, geologists, naturalists and...
For the second time this year, Oxford University's last remaining women-only college, St Hilda's, will vote on whether to admit men. A statement by the college governing body says: "The governing...
Dame Judith Mayhew, provost of King's College, Cambridge, has rejected claims that bursar Roger Salmon was suspended last week because of the college's financial position. She told The THES that much...
Consultants are to investigate the strengths and weaknesses of the degree classifications system and the new student transcripts that might replace it. A "scoping group", set up to consider possible...
Northern Ireland is unlikely to regain its higher and further education minister despite elections next week. The Stormont Assembly will probably not be recalled in the short term, even after voters...
Students studying short courses will count towards the government's manifesto promise to get 50 per cent of young people into higher education by 2010, it emerged this week. The government is to...
The Learning and Skills Council should be "really tough" with the worst providers of training courses, the Adult Learning Inspectorate said this week. Launching Ali's annual report on training...
Results from the first national student satisfaction survey are unlikely to be available until summer 2005, almost two years later than promised by the government, amid continuing concerns about the...
Students have every right to call their universities to account, the chief executive of Universities UK said this week. Speaking at a "Students' complaints" conference, Baroness Warwick said: "Long...
Biological sciences are booming in UK universities, but the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council warned this week that research funding might be unable to keep up. According to...