Sir Alan Wilson, vice-chancellor of Leeds University, was this week appointed the first director-general for higher education, charged with driving forward the government's student access and...
IMPERIAL SUNSETS Hugh Thomas reflects on the nature of empires and the fact that they usually end at a time when no one expects it ALSO Philip Anderson finds Susan Greenfield's vision of the future...
Anglia Polytechnic University has announced that David Tidmarsh will take over from vice-chancellor Michael Malone-Lee when he retires next autumn. Professor Tidmarsh is pro vice-chancellor of the...
Statisticians this week delivered a damning verdict on scientific standards applied in performance monitoring of higher education and other public services. A working party of the Royal Statistical...
The number of new entrants to initial teacher training rose to 31,885 in 2001-02 from 30,765 in 2000-01. Figures released this week by the ÌÇÐÄVlog Statistics Agency show a rise in students...
Education secretary Charles Clarke gave his blessing to an online foundation degree in business and management this week. The degree has been launched jointly by Bournemouth and Leeds Metropolitan...
What is it that University College London graduates such as comedian Ricky Gervais, the members of pop group Coldplay and Alex Comfort, author of Joy of Sex , have that Oxford University graduates...
Union leaders have criticised "lavish and needless" spending at Liverpool Hope University College as it confirmed a deficit approaching £1 million. The college this week said it was due to confirm an...
Universities and colleges have objected to government proposals to set in advance the proportion of top grades a subject can receive for research. Proposals in Sir Gareth Roberts' review of research...
Plant scientists using the technology of genetic modification are being driven out of the UK by increasingly vicious protests. Anna Fazackerley talks to some of them Plant scientists are questioning...
The government has produced no evidence to back its plans to concentrate research -a move that would serve only to stunt regional economies and handicap UK higher education in the international arena...
Students may increasingly choose a university in much the same way as people opt for designer clothes with the right "label", a former government economics adviser has warned. Sir Alan Budd, former...
Welsh Assembly plans to cut student access and hardship funds have been condemned by politicians and student union leaders. The assembly's planned budget for the next financial year shows a spending...
A Cambridge academic whose pioneering leukemia drug Campath generates more than £500,000 a year for the university this week revealed how the institution approved disclosure of his research results...
Funding chiefs have abandoned plans to force universities to publish reports by their external examiners amid concerns that opening up the traditionally confidential peer-review system would plunge...