Universities and colleges want to target a wider age range in their efforts to achieve government plans to expand higher education, writes Tony Tysome. They have told funding council leaders that...
Thousands of lecturers have been unable to take up posts at further education colleges because of the massive backlog in staff checks by the Criminal Records Bureau. According to the Association of...
The slump in the graduate job market could be reversed within three years, according to a survey of employers, writes Alison Utley. Almost half of the 900 firms in the annual CBI/Mercer survey of...
Loneliness rather than debt is the most likely cause of students dropping out of university soon after joining, according to new research. Researchers at Staffordshire University found that students...
Public funding cuts have cancelled out tuition fees on universities' bottom lines. Claire Sanders reports on UUK's latest findings. Tuition fees have not improved university finances, according to...
The Privy Council has been asked to rule on a mature student's claims that Swansea Institute failed to deliver his degree course adequately, and victimised him when he complained about the quality...
Lecturers' leaders attacked the government's "grudging and minimalist" approach to European laws for fixed-term and casual workers this week, leading calls by the Trades Union Congress for greater...
Claims that a unique killer strain of malaria once haunted England's marshlands have been challenged by a new study. For some years, experts believed that the mosquito-borne disease was responsible...
It seems that humankind's ancestors took coming down from the trees in their stride. Computer modelling has suggested that the earliest known hominid, Australopithecus afarensis , was as efficient...
Academics in new and old universities inhabit "different worlds" and should be assessed and funded accordingly, says a report out this week from recruitment specialists, Barkers. The current funding...
Unions this week called on the government to abolish tuition fees, restore student grants and fully fund a higher education expansion policy that will otherwise damage the student experience. Sally...
Universities in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania are setting up a database of applicants to try to eradicate the use of forged documents. Officials have detected 50 applicants who used forged certificates...
Universities in developing countries may enjoy a new wave of investment after a policy shift by the World Bank that acknowledges the key role of higher education in bringing about economic and social...
One in eight of Europe's 576 butterfly species is under threat according to research. The plight of butterflies and moths was discussed last weekend at the international symposium of the British...
Law academics fear that the Law Society and the Bar Council will introduce their own quality-assurance systems and prescribe course content for law degrees in an attempt to shore up standards. They...