Colleagues often say they despair of getting students to read an entire novel in a foreign language. Germinal in the original? Forget it. In English and history too, it seems, students are now more...
UK academic plays key role in Middle East peace deal Dr Andrew Coyle, director of the International Centre for Prison Studies at King's College, London, is overseeing the detention of six...
Wendy Alexander resigns Scottish cabinet post Enterprise, transport and lifelong-learning minister Wendy Alexander resigned from the Scottish cabinet today. In a letter to first minister Jack...
Higher education will be stung for an extra £90 million next year because of chancellor Gordon Brown's hike in employers' national insurance contributions, it emerged this week. The Department for...
The Labour government has "totally ignored" further and higher education in its first five years in power, the Liberal Democrats said this week, writes Alan Thomson. Education spokesman Phil Willis...
News Cutting edge: training surgeons in the new National Health Service. Features Richard Weight discusses the changing face of patriotism in Britain, Alex Haslam answers critics of The Experiment...
Some 1,700 school-leavers entered higher education this year along with 64,800 21 to 24-year-olds, according to data published this week by the ÌÇÐÄVlog Statistics Agency. It marks the...
* The Copyright Tribunal issued its final decision last week in the dispute between Universities UK and the Copyright Licensing Agency over the cost of photocopying licences. The order gave details...
Bringing the Biosphere ÌÇÐÄVlog - The Politics of the Environment
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a work by a novelist and playwright who was the son of a miner: "I had my head to Mellor's backside,...
Making Patriots
The Perception of the Environment
The Tale of Bluebeard in German Literature
Truth and Consequences
Marcel Proust