Merger 'benefits' pose threat to diversity
Valuable characteristics of small and specialist higher education colleges will be lost if such institutions are forced into mergers, a report warns. The 39 higher education institutions in the UK...
Search
-
-
Top-ups will pit costly science against the rest
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why The competition created by the white paper...
-
Prospect of English fees spreads fear of hardship
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Scotland The Scots are afraid of the impact that...
-
Vice-chancellors see a pay-your-way future as desirable, but students' opposition remains strong
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Bernadette Porter, rector of the University of...
-
Pay-your-way future: Exeter
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Exeter University vice-chancellor Steve Smith is...
-
Pay-your-way future: Nottingham
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why No one will be surprised to find Nottingham...
-
Pay-your-way future: Leeds Met
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Simon Lee, vice-chancellor of Leeds Metropolitan...
-
Pay-your-way future: Essex
With nearly every university set to introduce some form of top-up fees from 2006, THES reporters take a look at who is planning to charge what and why Essex University's students have lost patience...
-
Lack of specialist teachers 'stifles children's creativity'
A lack of specialist art education in primary schools is stunting the development of children's expressive and creative talents, researchers at Staffordshire University have found. The problem could...
-
Hazard taken out of house trends
Buying a house is the biggest financial gamble most people will ever make. A team of academics hopes to take some of the guesswork out of the process by making an advanced house price forecast...
-
Scientists add weight to anti-smoking campaign
Dimitris Kotzias, head of the European Commission's Joint Research Centre Environment Institute, is leading an initiative to investigate the quality of the air we breathe indoors, writes Martin Ince...
-
Euro research boss defends central lab
As the debate rages over the future of research funding in British universities, the European Commission's Joint Research Centre has come under attack from those who believe its budget could be...
-
New cloud study offers better flood warnings
Research announced this week by a group that includes scientists from the University of Birmingham could reduce the menace of floods to cities across Europe. Chris Kidd, senior lecturer in satellite...
-
Resignations hit watchdog
The future of UK higher education's champion of integrity, accountability and academic freedom was in doubt this week after members of its governing committee resigned - in a row over integrity,...
-
Specialist mediation aims to forestall court action
A specialist mediation service for university disputes to be launched next week intends to prise open the "unaccountable" world of academic decision-making, writes Phil Baty. The courts are in...