Scotland is set to lead the UK with a pioneering one-stop careers advice shop for people of all ages. Wendy Alexander, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, today unveiled plans...
Birmingham University is negotiating to complete a merger with the former Westhill College of Higher Education. The two institutions had already entered into a strategic alliance and set up a joint...
Universities and colleges have won an 11th-hour exemption from statutory registration to regulate immigration advisers. Student advice services, however, will still have to conform to a strict code...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council seems determined to plough on with teaching and research funding reforms despite widespread calls for a moratorium while a strategic review of the sector...
Academics, students and Liberal Democrats claim the Conservative Party's plan to "privatise" universities would mean graduates paying 13 per cent interest on their student loan debts. The Tory...
A senior consultant responsible for admissions at Imperial College Medical School, London, has resigned because of tuition fees, cutbacks and bureaucracy. Sarah Burnett, a consultant radiologist at...
Student support designed to aid access and cut dropout highlights a system failure, say critics. Claire Sanders reports in the second in our series on student poverty. "Some cases of student hardship...
A key member of your staff has problems at home that are affecting her work. You try to resolve the issue but fail, relations break down and she accuses you of bullying. All hell breaks loose, and an...
The Welsh Assembly will provide higher education with a £3.2 million boost this year. The announcement by the assembly's lifelong learning minister, Jane Davidson, followed calls from the assembly...
External consultants have been brought in at Liverpool John Moores University's estates and facilities department after an internal inquiry into staff claims of mismanagement. The THES reported in...
Peter Lamont, research associate in Edinburgh University's Koestler parapsychology unit, gives a practical demonstration of 'The magic of India' during the Edinburgh International Science Festival....
Queen Margaret University College is battling to salvage its ambitious plans for a new campus after the local health trust quit negotiations over the site. QMUC, which the Lothian Primary Care NHS...
Sunday Having managed (somehow) to complete my thesis on the Spanish revolutionary syndicalist movement pre-1930s on time, I have waited the customary five months or so for the viva. Now I am making...
Strathclyde University is facing an international marketing quandary. It wants to become better known in China. However, principal Andrew Hamnett revealed that a transliteration of Strathclyde...
Perhaps they did not possess the necessary communication skills or maybe they were simply too busy attending to the small details of their work, but when a group of researchers contacted a cohort of...