The Welsh Assembly has struck an agreement with Westminster to save students claiming new grants from losing up to £1,000 in benefits, writes Tony Tysome. The grant, introduced this year, entitles 43...
The Council of Deans of Nursing is consulting on plans to include allied health professionals. The council was set up in 1996 to represent nursing, midwifery and health visiting education. Eileen...
A review of training for social workers was announced this week by the General Social Care Council. From 2003, the council will register the workforce. It is also reviewing continuous professional...
Work experience outside term time is good for graduate employability, but mature and low-income students suffer from taking term-time jobs, according to a study by the Open University's Centre for...
British academic Norma Reid Birley this week resigned as vice-chancellor of the University of the Wi****ersrand in South Africa and is to leave her post with immediate effect. Council chair Justice...
Queen Margaret University College is to build a campus in Edinburgh's green belt, the first entirely new higher education campus development in Scotland for 30 years. QMUC has aimed for some time to...
More than 200 institutions have confirmed that they will take part in the International Student Awards, the British Council's awards scheme for international students who are making the most of their...
Martin Ince reports on the armed forces' drive to enlist more university services A major institution of higher education that decided to abandon undergraduate teaching would normally expect a tirade...
The European Commission has asked universities to do more to increase the number of female mathematics, science and technology graduates by 2010. In a communication listing five benchmarks for...
Indonesia's public prosecutor has dropped the charge of possessing military secrets against academic Lesley McCulloch despite opposition from the army. But her trial on a lesser visa violation charge...
Foreign students travelling to study in Paris next autumn will find a coordinated support system to help them through the maze of red tape, to look for accommodation and to discover the social and...
Russian universities are producing an "army of the unemployed", according to education minister Vladimir Fillipov. In an interview in the journal Itogi , he says that the number of graduates far...
Turkey's universities face certain change after the Islamic-rooted AK party's landslide victory in elections earlier this month. Party leader Tayyip Erdogan promised "sweeping reform" of the higher...
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers Fort Hare, the crucible of southern Africa's liberation struggle where Nelson Mandela, Oliver Tambo and Chris Hani...
A THES special report on the eve of a meeting of Africa's education ministers As the brain drain intensifies, an indefinite strike could paralyse the University of Zambia next January as academics...