Bright sixth-formers could be offered university courses alongside traditional A and AS levels following the success of a pilot scheme in the north of England. The Open University said an experiment...
Kent University is planning a cross-Channel university while extending its partnerships with local colleges, incoming vice-chancellor David Melville said this week. Professor Melville, who takes over...
A government initiative to raise money to improve city transport could cost university staff across the country millions of pounds, Nottingham University chiefs have warned. Local authorities have...
To cover the cost of a degree, more young people are taking paid work. Student stocktakers, sperm donors and models tell Cherry Canovan of the highs and lows of work and study. Students are...
Bath ad sparks race row Bath University could be in trouble with the Commission for Racial Equality for including discriminatory conditions in an advertisement for a job vacancy. The CRE confirmed...
Diana Walford , director of the Public Health Laboratory Service, has been elected principal of Mansfield College , Oxford, after David Marquand, retires in October 2002. The composer and conductor...
As dean of the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, Laura D'Andrea Tyson was the first woman to head a major American business school. This week, she was named the first...
Wednesday A second day of tutorials with International Red Cross managers in Nairobi. We look at their assignments: cultural diversity within the Red Cross, humanitarian advocacy in the information...
Kate Storey , a principal investigator who runs a research group in the Wellcome Trust Biocentre at the University of Dundee, has received a five-year senior non-clinical fellowship worth £900,000...
Tuition fees should be doubled... if students were not doing part-time jobs they would only be watching television... higher education is a middle-class tax perk... Strange that there was no whisper...
Willy Russell's Rita would not have a hope. A BBC trailer for Open University programmes contrasts OU television of the 1970s, complete with wide-collared lecturer and pointing baton, with its new...
The number of extra places available this year will make clearing a breeze for many students. However, a laid-back approach is unwise for anyone wanting to study for the University of Plymouth's BSc...
The bottoms and elbows of future captains of industry are to be well looked after, thanks to Lord Sainsbury of Preston Candover. He donated £125,000 to the Said Business School in Oxford, to be spent...
Dorothy Zinberg was exhilarated by the sense of academic possibilities in Turkey's new Sabanci University Fantasies are cheap; making them real is quite another story. Having spent my professional...
Talks later this month between conservationists and Club Mediterranée may seal the fate of the last colony of one of the world's rarest birds. The holiday village company wants to develop an area...