Criminologist Bill Thompson plans to file a lawsuit against the police after they raided his home and office as part of an investigation into child pornography. The investigation has apparently been...
Travellers who have marvelled at the pyramids, gasped at the Grand Canyon and raved about the Great Barrier Reef should add S****horpe, Skegness and North Berwick to their must-see list, according to...
The popular perception of sixth-form colleges as highly selective institutions that focus on preparing star pupils to enter top universities has been challenged by the findings of new research,...
Catwalk critics, among them footwear designer Jimmy Choo, were out in force at the London College of Fashion graduate show last week. Mr Choo, a former student at the college, said: 'All have their...
Fat-cat vice-chancellors may have finally got their comeuppance, thanks to a software glitch that has left their pension provider unable to process their six-figure salaries. In the latest of a list...
Six local education authorities are to pilot the online Student Support Direct scheme. The £30 million scheme, which was developed by the Student Loans Company, will allow students to apply for a...
Health courses are to have a streamlined quality assurance system for the first time after an evaluation of prototype reviews by the Quality Assurance Agency and the Department of Health. Reviews of...
The management school at the centre of a landmark whistleblowing case after it sacked a lecturer who complained about his director has been found to have unfairly dismissed another member of staff...
Potential should determine university entry, a study says. Alison Goddard reports Students who do badly at A level should still get university places if their predicted grades are good enough,...
The London School of Economics plans to create a business school to cash in on its international reputation and go head-to-head with the London Business School. Implementation of the proposals will...
A European Commission research consortium that was behind plans for a pan-European virtual university has been ordered to pay £250,000 to its former director. Peter Goodall, founder and former...
Public companies selling e-learning are "edging closer to profitability", according to the Observatory on Borderless Higher Education, a service set up by Universities UK and the Association of...
In the third of our series on what the government must address in its upcoming strategy paper, Caroline Davis looks at research funding - an issue that threatens to divide pre and post-1992...
Afghanistan's higher education minister has warned of an "explosive" situation if would-be university students are unable to find places when the academic year begins in March. More than 24,000...
Scots-born researcher Lesley McCulloch, soon to be released from prison in Aceh, Indonesia, plans to return to Australia to begin a three-year research project on the political economy of the...