Scottish educationists have warmly welcomed the decision to axe fourth-year tuition fees for students coming to Scotland from elsewhere in the UK, recommended by the Quigley committee, writes Olga...
The Scottish Executive's response to Cubie is to be probed in Northern Ireland's radical review of student support. The Department of Higher and Further Education, Training and Employment has issued...
Lecturers at the University of Lincolnshire and Humberside may give up their seats at this year's graduation ceremonies in protest against the university's decision to charge guests Pounds 10 a head...
(Photograph) - Made-up: two graduates from London won this year's Academy Award for best film make-up for their work on Mike Leigh's film Topsy Turvy, about Gilbert and Sullivan. Christine Blundell,...
University staff have a wide range of terms for colleagues they think are at a "career plateau". These include "dead wood", "research inactive", "technologically inept", "hit the buffers" and "as...
Henry McLeish, Scotland's minister for enterprise and lifelong learning, has announced a 9 per cent cash increase to further education colleges for the coming year, writes Olga Wojtas. Mr McLeish...
Sunday My first day as part of an official delegation to Palestine organised by the Friends of Birzeit University. Arrive at Ben Gurion airport, official entry point to Palestine, and announce my...
National Union of Students officers were concerned this week that crucial debates at the annual conference in Blackpool could be lost because of clashes with Tuesday's fixture between Manchester...
It is never easy for a public figure when he passes on the baton. So no wonder Andrew Pakes was feeling sensitive when, having watched Owain James elected as his successor to the presidency of the...
The last-minute decision by the Political Honours Scrutiny Committee to award Tory party treasurer Michael Ashcroft a strings-attached peerage may have been inspired by Anglia Polytechnic University...
Few people are more deserving of a break than Andrew Cubie, following his gruelling five-month stint chairing the Scottish student finance inquiry. So there was loud applause at a Queen Margaret...
Sir John Kingman, 60, Bristol University's long-standing vice-chancellor, is said to have quietly campaigned for a statistics commission during his tenure as president of the Royal Statistical...
New members of the House of Lords were announced last week. Kay Andrews, director of Education Extra (Labour), became a baroness. Becoming barons were Julian Hunt, professor of climate modelling,...
The Open University has awarded honorary degrees to: Talbot D'Alemberte, professor of law at Florida State University (Dr); Sydney Silverstone, former tutor-counsellor at the university (MA); Charles...
Vladimir Putin's election as Russian president promises to be a boon for analysts as they dissect his chances of hauling Russia into the 21st century. The taciturn former KGB spy has given little...