Colleges may avoid recruiting non-traditional students for fear of being castigated over poor retention and achievement rates, David Gibson said this week. He called for a public debate. He told the...
* Applicants for University for Industry courses will probably be routed through the University and Colleges Admissions Service. "UCAS is actively pursuing a system that will allow UfI entry," a UCAS...
* The government's review of the future of training and enterprise councils has been delayed until the new year because of an overwhelming response to its consultation exercise. A spokesman for the...
* Academics at the London School of Economics have been asked to look again at proposals to increase fees for United Kingdom postgraduates. The school's standing committee has asked the academic...
* Leading arts and social science staff have written to minister Baroness Blackstone calling for an arts and humanities research council for the UK. The Standing Conference of Arts and Social...
* Scotland's largest teaching union, the Educational Institute of Scotland, has halted its proposed boycott of post-16 Higher Still examination reforms. Scottish education minister Helen Liddell held...
* Satisfied customers are Scottish higher education's most powerful marketing tool in attracting overseas students, according to research findings. A Scottish Council for Research in Education report...
* Ten years of work will culminate next month with the publication of a new classification of the world's flowering plants and trees based on DNA rather than appearance. Mark Chase, head of the...
* An Edinburgh University research team has called for an annual "state of the nation" report on lifelong learning in Scotland. Tom Schuller and Caroline Bamford of Edinburgh's centre for continuing...
* An academic at Queen's University Belfast this week returned a framed painting of the university to vice-chancellor George Bain in protest against restructuring plans that could make 100 academics...
* Security staff were called in last Sunday to end a four-day student protest at Queen's University, Belfast. They evicted students who occupied the main administration block of the campus to demand...
* The vast majority of people would oppose plans to increase the proportion of tuition fee paid by undergraduates, says a NOP poll. The survey showed that seven out of ten people backed continued...
European research chiefs visiting London's University College this week were warned that success in Framework programmes risked bringing universities closer to bankruptcy. Opening the two-day UCL...
Effective and innovative knowledge management is critical to the future success of UK business, the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry told academics and business people this week. Speaking at...
Mr Mandelson was expected to spell out to business leaders and scientists the advantages of undertaking research in the UK, and how UK-based research could serve as a springboard to global...