About 20,000 part-time university lecturers on hourly rates have won the right to fully paid annual leave, writes Alan Thomson. Lecturers' union Natfhe and the Association of University Teachers have...
The Quality Assurance Agency is "more lap-dog than watchdog" when it comes to policing student grievances, student leaders said this week. The National Postgraduate Committee said that the QAA would...
Postgraduate students in Northern Ireland will receive Pounds 1,000 less in basic support than their counterparts in England, Scotland and Wales this year. A total of 345 students are affected by the...
The grisly find of several human body parts in the town of St Andrews following student celebrations has prompted improvements in security arrangements at the university's medical school. A postman...
Problems at Thames Valley University are so severe that significant chunks of teaching could be hived off to neighbouring institutions, it emerged this week. The review team appointed by the Higher...
Physicists are at loggerheads over whether PhD students should be required to complete a four-year degree before starting research, an issue debated at a meeting of the Standing Committee of Physics...
Higher education needs a radically restructured funding system to promote and protect diversity in the sector, a national conference was told this week. Sir Stewart Sutherland, vice- chancellor of...
Oxford University will not throw open its doors to non-traditional students unless academic standards in secondary schools improve, the university has warned in response to widening access proposals...
College chiefs are considering ways of wriggling out of their new statutory obligations to give lecturers and other staff proper paid holiday entitlement and maximum weekly working hours. Under the...
The humble garden spider has inspired an international group of scientists aiming to develop the toughest materials yet. Spiders' silk is one of the toughest materials known to man, able to absorb...
As applications for places fall short, and NHS shortages reach crisis proportions, nursing education is undergoing its own Dearing-style review. Julia Hinde assess the state of health Nursing now...
Landlords who run dirty, untidy pubs may have their surroundings to blame for fights on their premises, new research suggests. Claire Lawrence, lecturer in psychology and security management at...
Southampton University's botanic garden faces an uncertain future as its role as a teaching resource diminishes. Although the one-hectare valley garden in the heart of the campus is still under the...
Seventeen nurse lecturers at Greenwich University will lose their jobs following the renegotiation of nurse-education contracts. A one-third cut to the value of the contract between the university...
The Open University is joining forces with the universities of Exeter and Plymouth to propose a radical new medical school in the south-west of England, writes Julia Hinde. Based in district general...