Medical schools and the National Health Service are drifting apart and need to re-examine how they work together, says the latest in a long line of reports on their relationship. University Clinical...
A fifth of students are thought to be suffering from severe eating disorders that threaten their mental and physical wellbeing. Deanne Jade, principal of the National Centre for Eating Disorders, has...
Some see the University of Wisconsin system as a template for UK higher education. Alison Utley reports that Manchester is looking at the system, which Philip Fine describes below. The vice-...
Senior managers at Middlesex University knew the outcome of a staff grievance claim months before the hearings were complete, The THES has learned. Their decision to throw out a bullying claim by...
Arthur Peacocke , a physical biochemist at the University of Oxford and an Anglican priest, has been awarded the £700,000 Templeton prize for progress in religion. The University of Dundee will award...
Monday 08.30, Natural History Museum: 22 million specimens, 30 curators. Unlock scaffold bridge connecting old and new buildings, check atrium lift is operational - a glass panoramic thing protected...
Staff at Birkbeck College, London, were warned to behave nicely at last weekend's graduation ceremony. A missive from Josie Charleton, director of external relations, recommended staff "find a...
With all the misery faced by farmers over the outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, spare a thought for students at the Cheltenham and Gloucester College of Higher Education. The foot-and-mouth...
Varsity , the University of Cambridge's student newspaper, has clarified its report of the national shutdown day two weeks ago. It had said that protesters were chanting "let's go beat up the Germans...
A survey of the recent Seattle earthquake by United States journal Annals of Improbable Research produced a response from Angela Close, an archaeologist at the University of Washington, who was...
The University of Sheffield has appointed to its committee of university chairmen: Ron Haylock , chairman of council at the University of Nottingham and chairman of the committee; Karen Morgan ,...
Harvard University's next president, Lawrence Summers, is characterised by friends as driven and energetic. Even his tennis game, they say, is aggressive. The nephew of two Nobel prize winners in...
Language use and teaching in the countries of the former Soviet Union and its satellites are politically charged. "Educators worldwide believe in the importance of the native language for concept...
Lioba Simon-Schuhmacher is disturbed by Spain's unwelcoming attitude towards foreign academics. Spaniards with degrees obtained in their home country are to be found teaching at almost every European...
Oslo Norwegian minister of education and research Trond Giske has tabled a bill to set up 14 universities and university colleges, bringing the total to 18. Applications for university status are...