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...
Dundee University's secretary, Bob Seaton - who has served under five principals and six chairmen of court since his appointment in 1973 - was praised and called "the supreme example of the best type...
What do they know that we do not? Election officials from Lothian Region have made a visit to Heriot-Watt University's campus, apparently with a view to booking space. The date that they had in mind...
The University of Wales has awarded honorary degrees to: fashion designer Mary Quant; Jordi Pujol , president of the autonomous government of Catalonia; Sir Brian Smith , vice-chancellor of the...
A pioneer in the epidemiology of infectious diseases could scarcely want for a more testing arena than the United Kingdom, the land of BSE, vCJD and now foot-and-mouth disease. And in Roy Anderson,...
The Royal Academy of Music has appointed its first professors: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood , vice-principal and director of studies; Sebastian Bell , head of woodwind; John Wallace , head of brass; and...
North of Kuwait City towards the Iraqi border, the road rises over the Mutlaa Ridge, a sandstone scarp that provides the only relief in the flat desert landscape. Here, the final, bloody and one-...