A prominent physics professor has called on the visitor of Sussex University to reinstate him to senate after vice chancellor Gordon Conway cut short his term of office. Norman Dombey, pictured right...
The sacked head of a Buckinghamshire adult education centre is to seek reinstatement at an industrial tribunal. Iris Brooksbank claims she was victimised by her employers after offering student...
A dissident Iraqi academic was prevented from delivering a devastating critique of universities under the Saddam Hussein regime because the Foreign Office failed to issue a visa in time for him to...
Firm principles of openness and accountability for the running of universities, colleges and training councils are to be set out by the Nolan Committee on Standards in Public Life. The committee,...
Lord Henley, the new education and employment minister, has rejected calls for enhanced loans for medical and dental students. Labour and Liberal Democrat peers said that those studying to be doctors...
The Privy Council has granted degree-awarding powers to Buckinghamshire College, currently a college of Brunel University. The college aims for full university status by 1999.
Senior law lecturer, Amir Majid, has settled his race discrimination case against London Guildhall University for Pounds 15,000 compensation and a two-year paid sabbatical. In May an industrial...
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Research councils are proposing to meet the costs associated with maternity leave for contract researchers according to a consultation document to be issued to institutions by the research councils...
Vice chancellors were expected to meet the Secretary of State for Education and Employment yesterday (Thursday) to discuss the thorny issue of giving colleges of higher education the title of "...
(Photograph) - World View: A new exhibition The Earth and the Heavens opened earlier this month at the King's Library (within the British Museum, Great Russell Street London WC1) and runs until...
Liverpool's long-term unemployed are being asked to take the plunge into a unique Training for Work course - by starting each session with a jacuzzi. Merseyside Training and Enterprise "positive...
Middlesex University has joined the growing number of former polytechnics to create a court as a forum for wider community involvement in the university. It will meet annually and be made up of MPs,...
National negotiations on further education pay expected to take place today are set to hit a new low because of threats by the leader of the employer's side, Graham Baskerville, principal of...
English universities have been told to resubmit part of their applications for next year's cash allocations following a funding council inquiry. The resubmissions are for returns in the quality...