Colleges claim FE students lose out on places
Universities should be "compelled" to form partnerships with local further education colleges to ensure that the latter's students get a fair chance to enrol on their degree courses, MPs have heard....
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Liverpool may drop subjects ranked below 4* in RAE
Departments without 'world-leading' work face closure, says memo. Melanie Newman reports
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MBA exchange programme standards queried
A top business school has had a ticking-off from the university quality watchdog.In an audit at the London Business School, the Quality Assurance Agency said it could place only "limited confidence"...
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Petition calls for sacking of lecturer named on leaked BNP members' list
Birmingham Conservatoire academic denies links to 'extreme groups'. Melanie Newman writes
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RCA to shoulder costs as student case casts light on ELQ cuts' impact
Undergraduate faced overseas fees for masters until rector's intervention. Rebecca Attwood reports
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Lifelong learning threatened by funding change
Universities are closing or reviewing the future of their lifelong learning departments, blaming the "progressive withdrawal" of government funding for adult education classes.This week, the...
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Daytime TV: Naked truths
Gary Day enjoys the evolution behind why humans have no fur, but finds a Yorkshire tale far-fetched
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Competition
Win a Flip Ultra camcorder worth £99.99
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Average citation rates by field 1998-2008
SOURCE: Thomson Reuters’ Essential Science Indicators database, 1 January 1998-31 October 2008
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Piercemuller in Parliament
"Students aren't what they used to be." That was the dramatic assertion made by our own Doctor Piercemuller when he recently addressed the House of Commons Innovation, Universities, Science and...
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It is all a matter of taste
Most education is vocational, and quite rightly so, says Alan Ryan
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Off Piste: Butt of our neuroses
The goat has symbolised lusty desires and Christ-like sacrifice for millennia, but for Helen Wilcox a stray mountain beast in her garden had a rich meaning of its own
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Leader: Where do the curious people go?
Academia long gave asylum to awkward geniuses. It is less welcoming now, and scholars and students both feel the loss
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From where I sit - Student forced to use his noodles
On my way to the faculty dining room, I bought a copy of local newspaper Xinmin Evening News from a roadside newsstand as I waited for the traffic lights to change from red to green.Then I saw one of...