(Photograph) - Happy returns: For the first time in centuries sheep graze on the green outside Durham cathedral. Above, Paul Stokes and Louise Gidney, of Durham University's archaeology department,...
The Government has promised to review its Asylum and Immigration Bill after vice chancellors raised fears that overseas students and universities would fall foul of legislation barring foreign...
Universities and colleges are to spell out how they have implemented student union reforms. Eric Forth, higher education minister, is checking that the principles of "choice, fairness, democracy,...
The National Union of Students has claimed a victory in securing concessions from two major banks bidding to run privatised loan schemes, writes Alan Thomson. NUS president elect Douglas Trainer said...
The Labour party has launched a Pounds 1.5 billion new deal for the young offering a guarantee of minimum qualifications for school-leavers and a choice of work or education for 18 to 25-year-olds....
The article by Dr Davies on Italian universities (THES, April 26) raises some well-taken points, which are being widely discussed in Italy. However it contains a very serious imprecision, which I...
University and college staff and students would have new channels for complaints under recommendations expected to be made this week by Lord Nolan's Committee on Standards in Public Life. Further and...
Sir Ron Dearing's recipe for a well-balanced and dynamic committee of inquiry into higher education appears to be flavour of the month among the academic community, writes Tony Tysome. Vice...
The absence of any Standing Conference of Principals members on Sir Ron Dearing's committee has raised an eyebrow or two. One commentator noted this week: "He's got off SCOP-free". But as Sir Ron...
Bob Oxtoby, with luck soon to be the 105th member of the Committee of Vice Chancellors and Principals when Bolton Institute gets upgraded, has a second identity as possibly the world's unluckiest...
Allan Stewart, pickaxe-wielding Conservative MP for Eastwood, has just published his autobiography, The Long March of the Market Men. He reveals that he was able to attend St Andrews University with...
Neil Buxton, vice chancellor of the University of Hertfordshire, was a little puzzled at the deficiencies of a letter addressed to him as "Director, University of Lancaster, Hatfield, Hertfordshire...
Meat-loving coffee drinkers are repeatedly told by epidemiologists that their gastronomy will be their doom as studies reveal that fruit, vegetables and water are best for a healthy life. With one...
Recent protests by Oxford Brookes University's Conservative Society against the naming of its student union building after the its chancellor Helena Kennedy QC, evoke a nostalgia for that long line...
Alumna to be proud of No 49 is at the centre of what may have been the most vitriolic exhange yet between a privatised company and its regulator. Clare Spottiswoode, director general of gas supply,...