Leicester University students who are protesting over plans to restructure their department have joined forces with Birmingham University students who have been through a similar experience. Students...
Chess fans could find themselves out on the piece more often if they take up a boozy variant of the game, designed by an art student at Leeds University. Drinking Games is the brainchild of Susan...
A team of the world's top mathematicians is about to find out how good the UK is at the subject. The 13-strong group plans to descend on Britain in December as part of a project to assess British...
The Commons Science and Technology Committee was drawn into a public squabble with the Department of Trade and Industry last week over the committee's damning report on the Medical Research Council....
Universities may be acting illegally if they withhold exam results from students who owe them money, an education lawyer has warned after the Office of Fair Trading forced Kingston University to...
Many honours degree courses could be forcibly downgraded to foundation degree status if they failed to meet rigorous inspection demands under Liberal Democrat plans for higher education. Lib Dem...
Nearly 80,000 student places would have to be slashed to cover a multimillion pound deficit under Conservative Party plans for funding higher education, according to a new economic analysis, writes...
Many UK universities are being overambitious about how much revenue they will be able to generate through business links and innovation activities, says Richard Lambert, who is running the government...
London needs to concentrate on just three of its 40 higher education institutions to turn around its poor innovation record, according to Sir Derek Roberts, provost and president of University...
Students are neglecting the most essential workplace skill demanded by employers - teamwork - according to a survey. Teamworking emerged as the lowest rated skill, according to a survey of more than...
Details of who is paying universities for the privilege of exploiting their research and technology have emerged for the first time from an interim report by Nottingham University Business School....
Turkish president Ahmet Necdet Sezer has called for sweeping democratic reforms of higher education in what is seen as a direct attack on the controlling higher education authority. At ceremony to...
Australia's vice-chancellors say the federal government's plans for higher education will reduce university autonomy, adversely affect overseas student numbers and deter poor students from enrolling...
Colleges should be given the freedom to design their own vocational qualifications as part of a radical review of the nature and purpose of further education that is needed to meet the government's...
Some further education colleges plan to apply for taught-degree awarding powers and may bid for a university title under new rules proposed by the government, writes Tony Tysome. Large "mixed economy...