Language learning needs a coherent national strategy that could include standards of achieve-ment for all graduates, according to the Association for Language Learning. The ALL announced last week...
The head of the English funding council said this week that he wants to tackle the uneven distribution of funding for teaching in universities. Brian Fender, chief executive of the Higher Education...
Universities and higher education colleges would play a greater role in quality monitoring under plans unveiled this week by the joint planning group for a single quality agency, writes Tony Tysome....
Many academics believe standards in broad subject areas are not comparable across higher education and that the concept of a minimum "threshold standard" has little meaning, says a report this week....
Dyslexia seems rampant in Cardiff. First an unfortunate Cardiff Institute of Higher Education rugby player was described as a "scum-half" in the programme for the British Universities Sports...
(Photograph) - Window of opportunity: Members of the public are to choose one of six designs by students at the University of Wolverhampton's School of Art and Design for a stained-glass window at...
One of the fascinations of Welsh universities is the extent of their bilingualism, leading to unfamiliar terminology for familiar functions. As you might expect the Welsh language has its own...
The punsters have been out in force after Queen's University Belfast decided to team up with Irwin's Bakery to promote lifelong learning via its Armagh campus. The university insists locals are being...
But it is not just the human way with words that entertains us. The Political Studies Association in Glasgow was at the mercy of a berserk computer spellchecker. PSA executive member Jeremy Jennings...
A teeny hint to London Guildhall University as it hunts for spare funds down the back of the sofa. Forget about the silk ties and ballpoint pens that most universities sell to raise cash. The...
Confronting Glasgow's thugs and criminals is nothing compared to dealing with Edinburgh University's medical faculty. Edinburgh medical physiologist Geoffrey Walsh and Martin Lakie of Birmingham...
Also tackling Scottish crime is Alumnus To Be Proud Of No: 45, Terence Russell, sheriff of Kilmarnock. He is unquestionably Scotland's most exciting lawyer. He last week contrived the definitive bad...
The thinking behind western science that has made its dramatic successes possible has also led to blind spots and should be replaced by a new global science offering radically different approaches...
Lord Nolan's Committee on Standards in Public Life has denied it is set to call for an end to payments for quango members, including those on the boards of further and higher education funding...
Water supplies in England and Wales are set to become more polluted as a long-term result of the continuing drought, a hydrogeologist predicted this week. A third of our drinking water comes from...