By . UK employers are reporting an increase in the number of graduate vacancies this year. According to a summer report published today by the Association of Graduate Recruiters, there is a 17 per cent increase in the overall number of graduate vacancies, when comparing 2014 with the last recruitment season. More...
By . Discrepancy exists even allowing for academic record or social background. Ethnic minority university applicants are less likely to receive an offer than their white British or mixed-ethnicity counterparts, even when controlling for their academic record, social background, gender and school type, a new study has found. More...
By . Universities have proposed wide-ranging changes to modern languages A levels as “serious deficiencies” mean they are seen as “dull and uninspiring”. More...
By . University applications from school pupils eligible for free school meals have hit a record high, according to the admissions body Ucas. More...
By . BIS committee also criticises plans to sell loan book. MPs have recommended that the government undertakes “an urgent review of the sustainability of the student loan system” and have criticised plans to sell loans. More...
By . Vince Cable has reportedly announced plans to scrap a planned sale of student loans, raising questions over the uncapping of student numbers. More...
By . The new American president of Imperial College London has chosen to disclose her £421,000 pay package before she even starts in the job. More...
By . Four UK universities are teaming up with the BBC to produce massive open online courses about the First World War. The pilot project, part of the BBC’s World War One series of programming which marks the centenary of the start of the conflict, will pair short, three-week online courses on the FutureLearn Mooc platform with multimedia content from the BBC’s archive. More...
By . Too many black and minority ethnic computer science graduates are failing to get jobs after they graduate, a report has claimed. “While most computer science graduates go on to well-paid, professional jobs, too many find themselves unemployed,” the Labour-backed report, Digital Skills for Tomorrow’s World, says. More...
By . Primary and secondary education can learn from higher education when it comes to adopting innovative technologies, it has been claimed. According to the Measuring Innovation in Education: A New Perspective, Educational Research and Innovation report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, “innovation intensity” is greatest in higher education, and well above the rate in primary and secondary education. More...
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