Although it may look more like a slice of cake or the world's most elaborate pizza topping, this is in fact a paint sample from the dado rail in the coffee lounge of St Pancras Chambers.
The “artificial” barriers between universities and further education should be swept away in a bid to a create a “revolution” in post-16 education and training, Vince Cable has told the Liberal Democrat party conference.
One of Britain’s best-known physicists has attacked government plans to severely cut the science budget as “ludicrous”, warning of a devastating impact on the UK economy.
A coalition government agreement to abolish tuition fees in England and replace them with a system closer to a graduate tax is near and simply needs edging “over the line”, Simon Hughes, the Liberal Democrats’ deputy leader, has said.
Europe’s first major academic school of government, which opens today at the University of Oxford, has been bankrolled by one of the largest philanthropic gifts received by the institution in its 900-year history.
Postdoctoral research scientists should look elsewhere for fruitful careers as the financially stretched academy increasingly cannot accommodate them, delegates at the British Science Festival heard this week.
The British public believes the government should preserve funding for universities despite its efforts to slash the nation’s budget deficit, according to a national opinion poll.
The government is ignoring the “lessons of history” by planning huge cuts to the higher education budget, the leader of the UK’s main lecturers’ union will warn today.
Charges for university tuition should be increased to sustain investment in higher education and could be announced by next summer, David Willetts said today.
