Universities are being encouraged to develop teaching and learning strategies "explicitly linked to the institution's corporate plan", under new guidelines published by the ÌÇÐÄVlog Funding...
Eyes may be on developments in the Liberal Democrats' transport policy following the election of Charles Kennedy as party leader. When Mr Kennedy was president of the Glasgow University students'...
What better credentials for heading troubled Thames Valley University than more than 40 years' experience in education, 30 years in management and three years in the army? Add to this the...
Matthew Evans, chairman of Faber and Faber and of the Library and Information Commission, has been appointed chairman of the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council, which will replace the LIC and...
Nigel Reeves, pro vice-chancellor for external affairs at Aston University, has received the Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany for his contribution to British-...
Bulgarian universities are to switch to a four-year first degree with a masters degree awarded after a fifth year of study. This replaces a five-year course ending with a diploma. The government is...
Oxford University and higher education's software negotiator Chest went shopping Europe-wide for the best deal on Microsoft software - and they found it close to home in London. Chest software team...
A Coventry University business initiative has helped two graduates launch an internet record label. Wendy Grossman reports One of the youngest British new media businesses owes its existence to a...
Dundee University has won more than Pounds 330,000 for an ambitious project to preserve Scotland's historic architectural drawings in digital form. It will scan thousands of drawings and photographs...
The Association of University Teachers Scotland is urging university applicants hit by its admissions boycott to demand why the government is not helping resolve the academic pay dispute. The AUTS...
BOSTON The appointment of philosopher Peter Singer to a prestigious seat at Princeton University has provoked national demands for his dismissal - from, among others, Steve Forbes, a multimillionaire...
Turkey Turkey's admissions system is centralised and highly competitive, writes Jennifer Currie. Every high school leaver is entitled to sit the standardised university entrance exam in June, which...
Kazakhstan has introduced a cost-cutting law that allots a blanket sum to education. University and college students will have to compete for grants and credits. Tuition is free but board, lodging...
United States education secretary Richard Riley has warned college and university leaders that the seriousness of the Y2K computer problem in higher education could prevent students from receiving...
Scotland's independent inquiry into student finance this week asked whether education should be free to all, "and if so, who is all?" writes Olga Wojtas. The committee, chaired by Andrew Cubie, was...