(Photograph) - Reports of the death of 'real' drawing and painting skills are grossly exaggerated, according to Dundee University's Duncan of Jordanstone College. Its degree show demonstrates a shift...
Further education leaders have warned that colleges are turning down funding incentives to grow because they fear they may be penalised by sudden policy changes. Constant "tinkering" with funding...
(Photograph) - The public understanding of science will be a central issue tackled by the government's forthcoming science white paper. Scientists will be encouraged to take up the public debate on...
Universities and colleges will have free access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents from September, saving individual institutions more than Pounds 1,000 per year. Etoc lists the...
The new Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf of Barnes, has criticised a new legal practice course set up by Nottingham Law School, the BPP Law School and the Oxford Institute of Legal Practice for eight...
Lorraine Roseanna Price, a 44-year-old single mother and mature student whose body was found on Sunday morning at Lancaster University's Furness College, had recently completed a degree and was ready...
Oxford University scientist Sunetra Gupta has received an undisclosed sum of money, her legal costs and a full apology from Roy Anderson. Professor Anderson admitted making a false allegation about...
College lecturers have accepted their annual pay offer for the first time in six years. Lecturers' union Natfhe's national executive has accepted this year's 3.3 per cent deal by 13 to eight, after...
The tradition of open discussion by Cambridge academics on all matters of university policy and topics of concern is under threat. The university council wants to cut the length of individual...
Lancaster University is to investigate the learning needs of its staff as part of the Department for Education and Employment's campaign to promote the benefits of lifelong learning in the workplace...
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, is promoting wider access with a Pounds 10 million award to further education colleges. Mr McLeish announced the "completely...
There was not an elbow patch in sight at the Royal College of Art's postgraduate fashion show last week, the annual occasion when academia's better dressed members get to mix comfortably with the...
Radical reforms in post-16 education and training may be delayed or have to be rushed through without being thoroughly thought out, politicians have warned. The Learning and Skills Bill, which has...
A black student who claims he was unfairly removed from his degree course after blowing the whistle on racism and mismanagement at the London Institute has had an appeal against his exclusion upheld...
The Association of University Teachers says it has lost faith in the Universities and Colleges Employers Association because it has unilaterally imposed this year's 3 per cent pay offer with no "...