Edinburgh University Students' Association has called for a full review of what constitutes plagiarism following university action against 117 students found guilty of "unacceptable collaboration"....
Mature students are turning away from full-time higher education, according to figures from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service out this week. Six days after the clearing process started...
The University of Parma's science faculty is offering Italy's first postgraduate diploma in detection. The two-year forensic science qualification, popularly referred to as "the Sherlock Holmes...
A study of students with different kinds of qualifications entering higher education casts doubt on the assumption that A levels are the "gold standard". Sarah Wilkinson, an education researcher at...
English Nature this week expressed "deep concern" that large-scale farming in the United Kingdom of genetically modified crops resistant to herbicide could create weeds that cannot be killed. The...
The government has confounded critics who feared the new General Teaching Council would be little more than a government lapdog by confirming the body's independent status. The Department for...
Scottish colleges are relishing the chance to prove their independent mettle. This summer is a watershed for Scottish further education, according to Bob Kay, chairman of the Association of Scottish...
Gillian Raab and Kirsteen Davidson of Napier University's applied statistics group were commissioned by the Scottish Office to investigate the distribution of further education courses, writes Olga...
Lecturers have warned university chiefs and the government that the gloves are about to come off in the fight over pay. The warning from the Association of University Teachers affirms members'...
Lecturers in Northern Irish colleges may strike over their 3 per cent pay offer after chief executives were awarded rises that were nearly five times greater. Lecturers' union Natfhe is to consult...
The once obscure world of British higher education is revealed with the opening of a new archive of detailing the machinations of yesteryear's vice chancellors, writes Alan Thomson. The Modern...
IT is coming of age in higher education. As Kam Patel writes, it is no longer just for email, it is the backbone of an electronic academic community Within just a few years, computers have quietly...
Sunday I am away for the next five weeks on a placement at The THES to find out more about how the media works and how academics can bridge the gap between the press and universities. It has been a...
Teachers must be happy to know that before they became the chief professional concern of Carol Adams, newly appointed chief executive of the General Teaching Council, it was the crown jewels....
Drink-tank The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals has learned a thing or two about targeted lobbying and is putting it into effect at this year's party conferences. Its fringe meeting at...