Latest international news
Three share Nobel award for chemistry Two Americans and a Japanese scientist have won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for molecular research used in making medicines. William S. Knowles and Ryoji Noyori...
Search
-
-
From today's UK papers
The Guardian Many of those involved in modern social policy will tonight pay tribute to Richard Titmuss, Britain's first professor of social administration. The Times&...
-
Latest international news
Nobel prize physicists named American physicists Eric A. Cornell (JILA and National Institute of Standards and Technology), Wolfgang Ketterle (MIT) and Carl E. Wieman (JILA and University of Colorado...
-
Latest UK news
Tories back university expansion Shadow higher education spokesman Alistair Burt told delegates at the Conservative Party conference in Blackpool that there was no going back on university expansion...
-
From today's UK papers
Today's main story The 100th Nobel prize for medicine has been awarded to Sir Paul Nurse, the director general of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, his British colleague Dr Timothy Hunt, the head of...
-
Latest UK news
Cell scientists win Nobel Scientist Sir Paul Nurse, director of the Imperial Cancer Research Fund, was today awarded the Nobel prize for medicine. He shares it with his colleague Timothy Hunt and...
-
From today's UK papers
The Independent Oxford University scientists have discovered methods to detect breast cancer that will lead to earlier and more accurate diagnoses. Financial Times US business students remained level...
-
Latest international news
Rio hospital cancels operations Surgical operations at Rio de Janeiro's Clementino Fraga Filho university hospital have been reduced from more than 50 per day to just six in a state of emergency...
-
E-flagship is scaled down
The e-university has slipped further behind schedule and conceded its launch next year will be small-scale. The delay comes after the e-university - announced by then education secretary David...
-
Ucas stands by tariff system
The Universities and Colleges Admissions Service has defended its new tariff points system for entry qualifications in the face of a boycott by many Russell Group universities. The tariff sweeps up...
-
Students to foot bill for curbs on bad landlords
Glasgow students are having to pick up the tab for a scheme intended to protect them from dodgy landlords. Under a programme introduced following Scotland's Houses in Multiple Occupation Order 2000,...
-
£130m needed to bridge pay divide
Institutions are doing little to give female lecturers pay parity with men. Tony Tysome reports Universities have done nothing to close an £81 million gap between the pay of male and female academics...
-
Whistleblowers: Glasgow resists court
Glasgow University is refusing to reveal the names of the referees it relied on when it declined to award a professorship to renowned transplant surgeon Rahul Jindal, despite two court orders that...
-
Whistleblowers: AUT attacks new Hefce chief's record
Union leaders attacked Sir Howard Newby's record on equal opportunities this week as he prepared to take up his post as chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England. The...
-
Analysis: 'We want to set our own destiny'
Competition has forced ULH out of its Hull home. Alison Utley reports on its reincarnation and the gap left by its departure. The launch on Monday of the University of Lincoln is the outcome of some...