The University for Industry is set to launch its learndirect e-learning network before it is ready, college heads have warned. UfI chiefs announced this week that the network would be "open for...
Chief inspector Chris Woodhead has questioned the wisdom of expanding further and higher education and has called for degree courses to be made "more demanding". The outspoken head of inspection...
Collaborative bids that widen access to higher education will win the extra student places and funds available for 2001, funding chiefs announced this week. However, they acknowledged that only a...
The government was accused by trade unionists this week of attacking essential safeguards of academic freedom and of "censoring" pioneering thinking, writes Phil Baty. Moving a motion on higher...
Tough new rules on unscrupulous immigration advisers could cripple student advice services and damage recruitment, the overseas students council has warned. The United Kingdom Council for Overseas...
(Photograph) - David Buckley and Malcolm McVicar at the University of Central Lancashire's Alston Observatory, where they signed an agreement to take part in the Southern African Large Telescope (...
Almost two-thirds of scrutiny committee meetings of the Northern Ireland Assembly are held behind closed doors. Liz Fawcett, of the University of Ulster, has warned that the record of openness and...
Captains of industry have criticised government proposals to improve modern apprenticeships as "seriously flawed". In its response to the plans, the Confederation of British Industry warned that...
Teenage girls' career choices have become more ambitious since the 1980s, according to new research by the University of Greenwich. The study, which analysed 50 boys and 50 girls aged 14-16, found...
* A government scheme to use professional footballers as male role models in after-school centres at premiership clubs around the country could backfire, according to a Newcastle University education...
Colleges being inspected by the Quality Assurance Agency are penalised unfairly for their lack of resources, according to a report from the Further Education Development Agency. The agency is...
Scotland's student leaders are continuing to demand the full implementation of the Cubie committee's recommendations for student support. Responding to the Scottish Executive's consultation paper,...
Disabled academic Robert Giddings was "inexcusably" bullied and harassed throughout his career at Bournemouth University. But he is not entitled to compensation, and there was no discrimination...
The damage inflicted on British universities by the "suffocating bureaucracy of government assessment" was a matter of escalating concern, the vice-chancellor of Cambridge University, Sir Alec Broers...
Quality watchdogs have criticised the University of East London for its "disturbing" neglect of staff development and training. Limited resources have led the university to focus on other priorities...