The UK pharmaceutical and chemical industries have given a "resounding no" to a revolving loan fund suggested by Dearing to help plug the Pounds 500 million university infrastructure funding gap. A...
Billionaire US software magnate Bill Gates warned this week that the Government's plans for a computer-based National Grid for Learning would be fruitless unless teachers were given proper training...
Humanities call for cash THE proposed Arts and Humanities Research Council would need extra money if it is to work, say university deans. The Council of University Deans of Arts and Humanities has...
Royal Society of Edinburgh offers help The Royal Society of Edinburgh has made a bid to house the Scottish higher education forum proposed by the Garrick committee, the Scots version of Dearing. The...
British scientists will be watching with bated breath this week for the launch of one of the most ambitious space missions since planetary exploration began. The Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, an...
The universities of Leicester and Warwick are preparing a bid for a joint undergraduate medical school. The new school would be able to accept an initial intake of 300 - 175 based at Leicester and...
Twenty-five higher education institutions have signed up to a new two-year programme aimed at greening Britain's universities and colleges. The HE21 project, run by the environmental charity Forum...
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council's annual report has revealed that in the last ten years, student numbers have risen by more than 60 per cent, while public funding has fallen by 16 per...
The National Lottery Charities Board has given Pounds 379,513 to Skill, the national bureau for students with disabilities to help it develop services. Skill is the main voluntary organisation in the...
THE Scottish Office has released an advance payment of Pounds .5 million to higher education institutions in a bid to ease the ongoing student grants fiasco. And the National Union of Students...
A startling warning that teenagers' ability in basic reading, writing and mathematics are at a crisis level in Northern Ireland has been heard at a conference on under-achievement. Belfast Institute...
(Photograph) - Liverpool John Moores University's new engineering and science centre has been nominated for a Royal Institute of British Architecture award. The RIBA jury says the building is an '...
STUDENT mobility across Europe is hampered by the lack of agreement on entry requirements and fee-charging in higher education, Edith Cresson, European commissioner for education, training and youth...
LIBERAL Democrats are to recast their post-compulsory education policy, with strong indications that the model provided by Helena Kennedy QC's report on further education will be more influential...
CONSERVATIVES are set to attack the government for its planned abolition of student maintenance grants when legislation on higher education funding is introduced in the Commons next session. The move...