A warrant has been issued for the arrest of a man alleged to have been exploiting overseas students hoping to study in the UK. Jabulani Dube is believed to have left Britain after the immigration...
More than 100,000 students will be hit as staff prepare to shut down London universities in a dispute over pay and the failure to recognise the cost of living in the capital. As The THES went to...
Some 120 jobs have now been axed at South Bank University in a bid to save £5 million. Some 95 staff have taken voluntary redundancy, 21 have not had their contracts renewed and the rest have retired...
Lecturers' leaders have called for the expulsion of a senior British National Party official from Greenwich University. Natfhe, the lecturers' union, said that the presence of Lawrence Rustem, head...
Scottish higher and further education, vocational training and community education must all be brought together under a single national strategy rather than being treated as separate sectors. This is...
Blacks and Asians are twice as likely as white graduates to be unemployed six months after leaving university, a conference heard this week. The latest research, by the Association of Graduate...
The ruling senate at Queen's University has backed a controversial plan to close its classics department despite intervention by Nobel laureate poet Seamus Heaney. A majority vote by the senate last...
Bradford University academics have called for a referendum on whether their institution should merge with a neighbouring further education college, writes Alison Utley. An extraordinary meeting of...
Unions could unseat Manchester merger Trade unions at Manchester University and the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology warned this week that failure to involve them in final...
The Welsh have taken a step towards the creation of a single federal "super university" for the principality. New proposals for mergers and strategic alliances were this week submitted by...
The first technology-transfer training programme aimed directly at university staff was launched this week. Praxis, the UK University Technology Transfer Programme, has been designed by enterprise...
Evidence of widespread arsenic contamination of groundwater has been found in parts of Vietnam that had been assessed by the British Geological Survey. News of the discovery follows the launch of a...
Birmingham University may stop hosting personal websites for its staff after complaints that one was strongly anti-Israel. A report in The Jewish Chronicle said that the board of deputies had asked...
Modern languages in Scotland's universities are in a catastrophic state because of underfunding, Gordon Millan, chair of the University Council of Modern Languages Scotland, is to warn. Professor...
David Jobbins looks at the UK's rise to the top of the OECD degree league The overseas student market is big business for universities across the OECD. In 1998 alone, it accounted for up to $30...