Media speculation about Pete Townshend's encounter with child pornography centred on the question: Was he really doing research into the issue or was he just another sick punter? I have always found...
Key points Universities must draw up an access agreement to improve access for disadvantaged students before they are able to increase tuition fees This agreement will be supervised by an access...
Undergraduates 16,610 Postgraduates 5,840 Proportion from low social classes 21% Hefce teaching income £51m Hefce research income £22m Income from Hefce 36% Russell Group member Liverpool University...
Key points Expansion of vocational degrees Streamlining of accountability burden Some further education colleges to receive direct funding from Hefce Further education colleges and universities are...
Les Jervis, associate dean of science at Plymouth University, set out to be a research scientist, but teaching and administration came to overshadow his research. Dr Jervis opposes any policy that...
The National Union of Students executive has been accused of racism by its black students committee after an African student was barred from an executive meeting. The black students committee has...
Scotland's higher education institutions have won an extra £10 million from the government to improve access for students with disabilities. And the Scottish Executive and the Scottish Further...
Last week's soapbox piece by Mike Emmerich, Gerry Stoker and Dan Corry should have read: 'So to avoid further disadvantaging poorer students, the greater the emphasis on top-up fees, the larger and...
Bite-sized learning is upon us, and academics must accept some of the blame, says Tom Hickey It is time for educators to end their complicity in the degradation of the academic process in the UK....
Mature students are patronised by colleges, dismissed by Hodge and passed over by the NUS, says Alan Coleman The government's plans for student funding and widening participation appear to have...
Universities across Europe fear that a new directive from the European Union could stop them exploiting their intellectual property, seriously undermining research, innovation and funding....
England's jealousy of Scotland's funding for higher education is justified - but not that much, according to the findings of an independent survey. Scotland is generally perceived to have 10 per cent...
The Bush administration this week marked Martin Luther King Day with a promise to increase spending on grants to historically black and Hispanic universities by 5 per cent. The announcement came just...
Ruth Woodfield explains why Sussex University is restructuring its art courses to increase contact time with tutors. Many arts students will have clocked up far fewer contact hours with teachers than...
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name: Kemal Ahmet Age : 46 Job: Sub-dean (quality assurance), faculty of creative arts and technologies, University of...