Further education heads, union leaders and politicians have expressed alarm over figures that show that the number of lecturers leaving colleges to take jobs as schoolteachers has more than doubled...
Money worries in Scotland's remote island colleges have prompted a review of financial support by the Scottish Further Education Funding Council. SFEFC representatives were due to meet college...
An international businessman has given Britain's only bra-design degree course a £100,000 financial lift. De Montfort University is the only academic institution in the world to offer a degree in...
Increased restrictions on foreign students in the US may have boosted international student numbers in Canada by more than 15 per cent. The Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada has said...
Oxford University Press in India has withdrawn a US academic's book on the 18th-century Hindu ruler Shivaji after violent protests by far-right groups who claim that it cast "aspersions" on Shivaji...
The Australian National University is embroiled in a bitter dispute with an insurance company over reconstruction of its Mt Stromlo Observatory, which was almost destroyed by Canberra's bushfires in...
President Jacques Chirac's promise of a new national research programme and denials by prime minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin that research funding has decreased have failed to stem a revolt by French...
A month after the US release of the movie Mona Lisa Smile , the president of the all-female college in which the film is set has said it is a "distorted and demeaning portrayal" of the campus. Diana...
South African science is in decline, measured by its output of scientific publications over the past decade, a study has found. No country "has lost ground as much as South Africa", which has been...
Israel's Council for Higher Education has refused to grant a licence for Israel's first private medical school. The plan for a private school originated in a 1990s report by Amnon Pazy, former...
Next week MPs will make a crucial choice. If they choose wrongly, the consequences will be dire, argues Charles Clarke When I was appointed secretary of state, I made clear that investing in the...
Monday Wake at 7.30am. Terrible night. Feel awful. For someone who's writing a book about sleep, I should be doing better. Is it simply a case of poor sleep habits, or, more sinister, an underlying...
Preparing to deliver a speech on university funding last week, Tony Blair was preening himself as new Labour luvvie Wendy Piatt of the Institute of Public Policy Research opened the event. The prime...
The surprise in last week's communication from Charles Clarke, the education secretary, to David Young, the English funding boss, was not its contents but its brevity. The annual grant letter to the...
The Association of University Teachers saw its efforts at communication blocked by gremlins last week. Thousands of copies of an email from Matt Waddup, the assistant general secretary, about...