Scottish higher education institutions are preparing to battle against funding cuts, armed with a report which shows higher education as a key player in the Scottish economy, writes Olga Wojtas. Iain...
(Photograph) - Sister act: A celebration of women being played out at Bolton Institute of Higher Education last week as part of a voyage of creative discovery for six female access students. The...
Remains dating back to the third century have been unearthed by builders working at the Caerleon campus of Gwent College of Higher Education. Caerleon, the Roman town of Isca, was home to 10,000...
Leading fish researchers are trying to calm panic over the news that a Scottish company may take part in trials on genetically engineered super-salmon. A number of environmental groups are alarmed...
A Cambridge scientist has used her loaf to bake bread just as the ancients did. Her recipe has included bits of old bread lying in museums, state-of-the-art imaging techniques and a talent for home...
A team of scientists developing a device for monitoring oil pollution has won the top prize in a new environmental award scheme. The instrument makes use of the latest advances in opto-electronics...
Domestic waste water is a complex and delicate subject, particularly the various items which find their way into sewers and are technically known as "gross sanitary solids". These include sanitary...
White male professors at Northern Arizona University have brought a lawsuit claiming they are the victims of sex equality run amok. George Rudenbusch, an associate professor of philosophy, claims he...
Security was stepped up at Nigerian universities this week as students staged a two-day boycott of lectures in protest at the executions of novelist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight pro-Ogoni campaigners. In...
The inability of universities to keep track of individual students is becoming a problem for the Student Loans Company, a National Audit Office report reveals. The report, The Operations of the...
The Government's proposals for a new semi-privatised student loans scheme were roundly condemned from all sides and across the political spectrum this week. Members of the Conservative Higher...
(Photograph) - French education minister Francois Bayrou renewed his promise of an emergency plan to redress funding inequalities between universities after the cabinet met on Wednesday to review...
As a dead cow and its calf draw the crowds at the Turner Prize show, John Davies talks to this year's crop of art students to discover the sentiments behind the sensational. As crowds flock to the...
Rabbi Dan Cohn-Sherbok has a proposal for a divided faith. For decades Israeli society has been under threat from the Arab world. The danger of attack is part of daily life in the Holy Land. Yet the...
Simon Targett reports on the growing popularity among students of an activity normally associated with battering brains rather than expanding them. It was a second round knockout. The Irish...