Bath University, one of the pioneers of British sports scholarships in the 1970s, is to set up a dedicated rugby scheme in partnership with the city's club. The first scholar, second-year mechanical...
Alumnus to be proud of no 28 is Sir John Daniel, vice chancellor of the Open University and possessor of a fine collection of degrees including an Oxford BA and a University of Paris doctorate. But...
The Royal Society of Edinburgh has this week been replying to the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution's inquiry into environmental standards. It stresses the importance of continued research...
There was an extra touch of chemistry during Scotland's rugby performances at its Five Nations matches in Ireland last weekend. Scotland's team included Craig Joiner, a third-year chemical...
The sight of Professor Floud with smoke metaphorically pouring from his ears also caused a stir at a recent LGU graduation ceremony. His attack on the Government went down rather well, except with...
NatWest was not the only City of London institution inconvenienced when its tower block caught fire spectacularly last week. London Guildhall University had chosen that day for a photoshoot on the...
English delegates were impressed by the Glasgow Caledonian students who were found around the campus during the conference, claiming that they appeared particularly mature and studious. More cynical...
The Higher Education Quality Council apparently expected fewer than the 150 delegates who turned up for its annual SCOTCAT conference in Glasgow Caledonian University. Signs on the lavatory doors...
Key questions about the role of the proposed new higher education quality agency and the nature of quality in universities and colleges are to be addressed before the body is set up, it emerged this...
Rising violence and a disintegrating criminal justice system signal the need for a new discipline aimed at treating offenders rather than at just judging and then punishing them, psychiatrists say...
University heads are working with ministers to "expose" the weaknesses of the Private Finance Initiative in higher education, it was claimed this week. Eric Forth, the higher education minister, has...
King's College London and the United Medical and Dental Schools are looking to clinch the biggest deal so far under the Government's Private Finance Initiative worth Pounds 125 million. The two...
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Was the disastrous capital allocation for universities in the last Budget a sin of omission rather than commission, to be blamed on the straightforward ignorance of Gillian Shephard, Education and...
The Liberal Democrats' main policy decision-making body has given the go-ahead to a new further and higher education document that deliberately leaves the door open to the possibility of top-up fees...