The Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals will hold a one-day conference on university league tables on June 29. It will look at their relevance to students, university management, academic...
Rose Bruford College of Speech and Drama was occupied this week by 100 students demanding an independent inquiry into the "crisis" there. There have been rumours of cuts and a row over three teachers...
STAFF are being axed across higher education as debt levels continue to rise, an annual financial guide to the sector has revealed. A detailed financial analysis of 158 higher education institutions...
THE government is worried about high drop-out rates on some further education courses, further and higher education minister Baroness Blackstone told the Association of Colleges conference held to...
PEERS are to challenge the government head-on by moving to reject Commons amendments to the Teaching and Higher Education Bill when it returns to the Lords on Tuesday. If successful this will send...
THE Open University has come under fire from quality watchdogs over the way it manages its overseas partnerships. Each faculty at the OU has so much freedom to develop its own links with institutions...
SCOTTISH education minister Brian Wilson yesterday unveiled plans for a distinctive Scottish University for Industry, backed by Pounds 1.3 million from the government. The national development agency...
The NERC has indicated that it will reward more collaborative and risk-taking environmental research in the future. Julia Hinde reports The Natural Environment Research Council's first comprehensive...
Roger Needham is the man in charge of Microsoft's Cambridge is the man in charge of Microsoft's Cambridge millions. Tony Durham asks how he will spend them Microsoft is not the first computing...
Updated guidelines for science and technology policy published by China's new Ministry of Science and Technology will direct scientific research in universities and research institutes over the next...
The drive to increase the number of women researching in science, engineering and technology could soon be given an extra boost as a Labour MP, herself a former scientist, seeks a Commons debate on...
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council have launched the second phase of the bioinformatics initiative. Key priorities...
A call for proposals will be issued this summer by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council to establish research networks to identify and investigate speculative emerging areas of...
The Institute of Incorporated Engineers has begun a search for the 1998 Young Woman Engineer of the year. The winner will get Pounds 1,000 and a silver rose bowl; the runner-up, Pounds 600. An...
Research will be the focus of exhibits in the revamped 141-year-old Lakeside building at the Kew Royal Botanic Gardens in London. Curator of the Centre for Economic Botany Hew Prendergast says the...