The Higher Education Funding Council for England will continue in its present role, its quinquennial review has concluded. The review looked at the possibility of abolishing HEFCE, privatising some...
The Association of University Teachers will meet The Universities and Colleges Employers Association today for the first time to discuss next year's pay claim. The union has threatened to call its...
The extent to which the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts should inspire people who have left formal education is the most contentious aspect of the early responses to the...
* A website for women interested in careers in science and technology was launched by the Department of Trade and Industry' s Promoting Women in SET unit. It is at www.set4women.gov.uk
Three university engineering departments this week pocketed Pounds 50,000 each as winners of the secretary of state (Department of Trade and Industry) University/Industry Partnership Prizes....
College leaders have agreed to set up a commission to examine ways to encourage more black teachers into further education. The Association of Colleges, the Further Education Funding Council and...
Bury North MP David Chaytor has launched a private members' bill calling for loans for part-time students, parity in the rate of institutional funding for part-time students and paid educational...
A number of educational bodies will have to comply with openness rules after being brought within the jurisdiction of the parliamentary ombudsman. An additional 158 non-departmental bodies will now...
David Gauntlett's website aboutcritical theory and the media, www.theory.org.uk, has been attracting up to 700 visitors a day since its launch in January.
Portuguese student unions are planning a national day of protest next week at government proposals for higher education funding. Students will also call on the government to adopt a clear line on...
Shops and the main markets in the Zambian capital closed during violent clashes between university students and police. Police prevented students from handing a protest letter to the president...
Former polytechnics are often outflanking their old university counterparts as a new subject-based "hidden binary structure" emerges, a British Council conference on employability will hear today....
A new Pounds 1.4 million interactive television network linking Imperial College School of Medicine with 12 hospital sites around London is cutting the time student doctors spend travelling. The new...
Quality chiefs have called for unprecedented powers to remove universities' rights to award degrees. The controversial proposal by the Quality Assurance Agency, which underpins its plans to establish...
Three Welsh higher education institutions have had to be protected from damaging funding cuts with special "safety net" grants, the Welsh Funding Council announced this week. The sector's 13 higher...