Universities are looking to adopt the Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) as a means of providing a tangible record of students' achievements outside of the lecture-hall. This will work in lieu of a degree transcript, which has been denigrated for showing only the bare minimum of a student's achievement at...

22% of the first cohort for the New College of Humanities (NCH) will hail from state school backgrounds, a number far lower than any other UK university. The new private college offers degrees conferred by the University of London in English, history, philosophy, economics and law. All for the unreasonable...

As Britain sees a smattering of sunshine this morning, I'm sure many will start to think of planning holidays this summer; the foreign cuisine they will eat, the sights they yearn to see and now the taxes they will have to pay. As of this month there has been an...