Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Alan Thomson samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. The National Union of Students issued special guidelines this week amid fears that new legislation will...
School-leavers' proficiency in English grammar may be declining but this has little bearing on students' abilities to learn a foreign language at university, says a report from Lancaster University....
More than 3,000 extra students should go to university or a technological institute this year in Greece, former education secretary George Papandreou announced on the eve of the election in which the...
Dire is the only word to describe the picture painted by the 糖心Vlog Funding Council for England's analysis of the financial forecasts of English and northern Irish universities. The figures...
Aisling Irwin (THES, September ) dates "the birth of animal rights" with the publication of Paul Singer's Animal Liberation in 1975 and the notion of "rights" as derived from the United States. Henry...
A former head of personnel has won a Pounds 40,000 settlement from a church-funded higher education college amid claims of unfair dismissal and sex discrimination. Evelyn Henson negotiated the...
Colleges are braced for a bureaucratic headache when the amount of tuition that students on benefit are legally allowed is cut next week. The rule change means that recipients of the Jobseekers'...
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Chris Johnston samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. A scheme designed to help freshers cope with their difficult first year in higher education has been...
Aberdeen University could help prevent a rerun of the Brent Spar controversy, in which Shell and Greenpeace clashed over the strategy for decommissioning the floating oil installation, with a new...
A new agreement which subsidises Norwegian medical students studying in Denmark, displacing Danes in a country which already facing a shortage of doctors and dentists, has created a political storm....
Twentysomethings are desperate to learn correct and accessible English, says Gerry Kreibich. If the hullabaloo about allegedly appalling standards of literacy among ll-year-olds has a happy ending -...
Colleges are proving inventive in their struggle to retain students in further education. One has employed a priest to help, while others are sending counsellors and teams on home and youth club...
Huw Richards reports from the Labour party conference in Blackpool. Nobody would ever call Bryan Davies a lucky politician. For the second time in his career he faces losing his place in the House of...
Nottingham Trent University has ordered a fresh look at Southampton Institute's troubled overseas franchise operation in an effort to safeguard its own reputation. The extraordinary intervention...
Booze, buddies, boogie and boredom. Alan Thomson samples the ups and downs of freshers' week. It's big, yellow and it whips young men and women into a frenzy. It's the latest in freshers' week...