As abstruse 18th-century lyrics go, William Blake's "Jerusalem" has staying power. A teacup of controversy was stirred last week when the musical director of Cheadle Parish Church, Martyn Barrow,...
A single lecturers' union is appealing, says Tom Wilson, but there is a lot more to it than a simple merger. Ask almost any member of the Association of University Teachers and the National...
The government will not achieve its ambition to widen access until it overhauls the student-support system, writes Lindsey Fidler. Since 1997, anybody involved in higher education has had it drummed...
A group of glaciologists has escaped the British weather for somewhere... colder. In the fourth article on what researchers do in the summer, Bryn Hubbard reports from the Arctic island of...
Much needs to be done to make mobility between different European Union countries a reality for researchers, according to a study undertaken for the European Commission. The report, released by the...
The development of gene therapies may bring relief to those with cystic fibrosis or Aids and can also give rise to a little wine tasting. Gene therapy has the potential to treat many...
The decision to leave the running of the scientific inquiry into foot-and-mouth disease to the Royal Society was welcomed this week despite widespread criticism of the government for ruling out a...
US scientists fear that President George Bush's decision to limit publicly funded human embryonic stem-cell research to existing cell lines could put universities at the mercy of private suppliers....
University admissions off to busiest start ever A quarter of a million higher education places were confirmed within the first few hours after students received their A level...
British Council abandons Zimbabwe The British Council confirmed it has closed its offices in central Harare, which shut temporarily for security reasons earlier this year. Staff are working from the...
Guardian The writer Gore Vidal yesterday compared the executed Oklahoma bomber Timothy Mcveigh to Paul Revere, the hero of American independence. Times It is time to abandon the AS-level mess and...
Robert Sugden travels the 'third way' with a faithful yet uneasy guide. Anthony Giddens has been one of the most prominent participants in recent debates about the future of social democracy; his...
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from a novel about gang warfare: "Hale knew they meant to murder him before he had been in Brighton three...
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