Students need trade unions, according to a survey of undergraduate working trends by the Trades Union Congress. Approximately 70 per cent of the 311 students who took part in the Students@work.2000...
A charge of "rampant egotism" was this week levelled at Britain's academics by the former chief executive of the Industrial Society and personnel director of the London Stock Exchange. Rhiannon...
Government and industry need to plough more into education, training, research and development, trade and industry secretary Stephen Byers said this week. But Mr Byers, who spoke at the Knowledge...
A new underclass could be created in Northern Ireland, Queen's University's vice-chancellor George Bain has warned. Professor Bain said that many people could be excluded as employment shifted to...
Danish students in Britain are paying full tuition fees because they are deemed to receive too much money from their own government. International student officers from British universities,...
Pressure mounted this week for a second Dearing-style independent review of higher education, as vice-chancellors and students set a collision course over top-up fees. Student union leaders who...
* Students owe universities thousands of pounds in emergency loans made to tide them over until their Student Loans Company cheques arrived last term. At Staffordshire University some 150 students...
* Three-quarters of colleges awarded staff a pay rise of 3 per cent or more last year, according to an Association of Colleges survey. It found that "almost" nine in ten colleges made a pay award for...
(Photograph) - * David Potter (above), chairman of Psion, has sold just over 1 per cent of his shares in the company for more than Pounds 65 million. He still owns 14 per cent. Dr Potter left...
* Frank Ellis, the Leeds University academic due to address an extreme right conference in the United States, has been denied leave to attend. Dr Ellis, a Russian and Slavonic studies lecturer, was...
* Most students taking vocational courses in Scotland's 47 further education colleges are 25 and over, according to figures from the Scottish Further Education Funding Council. The number of...
* The first group of support staff to submit a claim in this year's pay round has asked for a minimum Pounds 5 an hour and a shorter working week. The Transport and General Workers Union, which...
* A former mature student who blamed the University of North-umbria after she failed her degree has lost her claim for Pounds 20,000 in damages. Sue Finch, aged 46, who spent a year studying for a...
* Students have cleaned up their shabby, unwashed image, according to a Visa Cash survey, which claims that today's students do at least two loads of laundry a week. While 20 per cent of male...
* Women students at the University of Durham's only single-sex college, St Mary's, protested this week over management talks on making the college mixed. The university senate decided on Tuesday to...