Professionals eager to join the doctorate ranks
Professional doctorates have mushroomed since they started seven years ago, a nationwide survey of universities has revealed. Researchers from Brighton University found that between 1998 and 1999...
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Medics go on alert for stress spotting
Dundee University's medical students are logging how alert and optimistic they feel in a pioneering study that aims to cut their risk of divorce, suicide and alcoholism in later life. Nick Halpin of...
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Whitehall split over Hinxton bid
A row has broken out between the Department of Trade and Industry and the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions over the recent rejection of the Wellcome Trust's planning...
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Jenny Osborn-Jones outlines her experiences as a disabled student
(Photograph) - Jenny Osborn-Jones, aged 22, is in the fourth year of a degree in health studies at the University of Central Lancashire. In a wheelchair since infancy, she chose the university for...
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QAA finds cavities in Welsh dental school's practices
Wales's only medical and dental school is failing to safeguard standards and cannot guarantee the quality of its own awards, quality watchdogs have warned. The University of Wales College of Medicine...
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More students live at home
The number of new students who plan to live at home while attending university or college has risen to 22.6 per cent this year compared with 20.8 per cent last year, according to figures published...
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Hot questions of shelf life
REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Over the past decade, we have heard more and more about blocks of ice the size of countries breaking adrift from the Antarctic...
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Is NUS serving the me generation?
As another university decides to disaffiliate, Harriet Swain asks if this is the beginning of the end for the National Union of Students. This time last year students at the University of Manchester...
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Meltdown at Melton
Melton Mowbray College accepted fees from a suspected illegal immigrant despite clear warnings from entry clearance officials that she might have obtained her student visa by deception. Melton...
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Commercial propositions
REPORTS FROM THE BRITISH ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE Is genetic modification of crops the hope for the future or a sure-fire route to bankruptcy? The issue was debated at this week's...
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Quality plan stalls as QAA faces dissent
The framework for the new university quality assurance regime for British universities is in disarray, with university chiefs, the funding councils and the quality watchdog at loggerheads. The...
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QAA moots student report cards
The QAA published a consultation paper this week, building on the Dearing recommendation that universities develop a universal student "progress file". The files would "form an important element of...
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Call for national inquiry on lecturers' pay
Lecturers attacked the government at the Trades Union Congress this week for ducking responsibility for higher education pay and conditions. Alan John, president of university and college lecturers'...
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Blair tells Silicon Fen: 'You are world beaters'
Prime minister Tony Blair this week said there is "no reason" why Silicon Fen, the academic and industrial concentration of IT and electronics expertise and business in Cambridgeshire, cannot beat...
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Cambridge shines in Sunday Times league
Cambridge University is best for both teaching and research and has the stiffest entry requirements among British universities, according to a league table compiled by the The Sunday Times to be...