The government's national languages strategy is being undermined by a "free for all" in higher education that ignores national and regional needs, the government's languages advisory body warned this...
The government policy of expanding foundation degree places needs to be re-examined, as it is stifling the growth of honours degrees, says the vice-chancellor of Newcastle University. Christopher...
When Terry Cape enrolled to study the unique law degree at Northumbria University, he was attracted by the savings. "I knew I would save about £6,000 on the cost of a legal practice course," he said...
The traditional three-year law degree could be phased out under radical plans from the Law Society to restructure legal education. The society's new training framework, currently out for consultation...
British business should stop "whingeing" about the perceived shortcomings of universities and address the damaging decline in their own research and development activities, according to Richard...
The discovery that staff at Newcastle University sent and received more than 100 million emails in the past year - double the number for 2000 - has prompted moves to resolve the mounting information...
Welcome to the campus without walls. The advent of wearable, mobile computing has the potential to liberate students, researchers and academics from the physical confines of lecture theatres,...
A one-in-3-billion chance encounter with a group of US physicists provided the spark of inspiration for a sell-out tour by British comedian Dave Gorman. Mr Gorman happened upon the American Physical...
The UK's first electronic messages were full of complaints about unexpected delays, writes Steve Farrar. Yet the bouts of lethargy that would suddenly afflict the net when Peter Kirstein was trying...
Words such as "provider", "underpinning", "stakeholder" and "learner" may be banished from Learning and Skills Council documents as part of a jargon-busting crusade launched by new chief executive...
College funding chiefs have promised to cut the red tape crippling the sector by creating a new tier of regional management. Mark Haysom, the new chief executive of the Learning and Skills Council,...
A "gatekeeper" body to check government policies for excessive red tape is likely to be set up next year. The Department for Education and Skills' Better Regulation Review Group says in its interim...
Inhabitants of Belgium's frontier villages are losing patience with students from the University of Maastricht who are attracted to the area by cheap accommodation. Vroenhoven and Kanne - less than...
France's professional university institutes (IUPs) fear that European harmonisation plans threaten their courses and the degrees they award. In statements issued after an extraordinary general...
The majority of US undergraduates use the internet to do research and most say they know of classmates who use it to cheat, according to an annual survey of university students. The National Survey...