The Scottish Parliament's education committee has called for a freeze on Scotland's Higher Still developments until this year's package of courses has been delivered successfully. This is one of 56...
Nichol Stephen, the deputy education minister, has reiterated his view that the £10,000 income threshold at which graduates start repaying student loans and contributing to the endowment scheme...
Robert Chalmers, suspended last January as principal of Moray College pending the outcome of disciplinary proceedings, has retired on grounds of ill health.
The government this week announced 15 winners in the National Training Awards. They include Paul Champion, who worked in the engineering industry before earning a sports studies degree then a further...
A challenge to the world's scientists to crack an artificial brain puzzle was met by a group of young British physicists in just one hour. David MacKay and colleagues at the Cavendish Laboratory,...
An automated bee identification system has been created to help defend native species from foreign invaders. The technique, which uses a personal computer to analyse the images of 15 different...
A big-city lifestyle still proves a lure for students: universities in key metropolitan areas typically receive most applications. A study by marketing company Riley Research found that the...
The amount students owe in loan repayments is soaring, the Department for Education and Employment says. Its statistical bulletin shows that, provisionally, the total outstanding was nearly £4.6...
Astronomers at Jodrell Bank are confident of securing a £12.4 million upgrade, despite sweeping cuts being planned by the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. The proposal would increase...
Plans by research-led universities to break free of national pay structures and usher in market-led local deals will be opposed with "all possible measures" by the Association of University Teachers...
Hundreds of students have demanded compensation for falling academic standards at the University of Hertfordshire, raising the prospect of mass legal action. The university announced the closure of...
Ministers this week proposed new learning and skills initiatives but have offered no extra funding to support them. Baroness Blackstone, further and higher education minister, announced a system of "...
Can do kendo: Cheltenham and Gloucester college of higher education students Yuichiro Kishigami and Sotaro Honda who won the Mumeishi Threes international clubs competition at kendo - Japanese sword...
The University of Central England in Birmingham is to stop recruiting extra full-time students funded by the funding councils to avoid bad debt and bureaucracy. Over the next four years, it will...
The government has laid out its spending plans and targets for the new Learning and Skills Council, which takes control of post-16 education and training from April. The LSC's £5.5 billion grant for...