How many v-cs are black? When the Macpherson report on the murder of the black teenager Stephen Lawrence was published earlier this year, it warned that people are held back in British society not...
The answer is none, and as a black academic you are half as likely as a white colleague to become a professor. Helen Hague reports Are British universities institutionally racist? There is a lot of...
For animals, being gay is as natural as the birds and the bees, says biologist Bruce Bagemihl. He tells Tim Cornwell how scientists have both suppressed and oppressed homosexual animals If only they...
John Davies lists programmes worth catching this week (times pm unless stated). Pick of the week After his How to be Home Secretary earlier this year, ace political interviewer Michael Cockerell now...
In the Lib Dem leadership race, education spokesman and MP for Bath Don Foster has become a hot tip. He tells Alan Thomson about Labour, language and lifelong learning Don Foster, the Liberal...
Having proclaimed liberal democracy triumphant and history over, Francis Fukuyama now finds that family breakdown is down to the pill and women going out to work. Harriet Swain talks to a...
Vladimir Zaitzev, director of the National Library in St Petersburg, was among a group of 18 Russian artists and intellectuals awarded a new Alexander Pushkin medal for achievements in culture and...
German university rectors say they are "deeply concerned" at finance minister Hans Eichel's plan to cut next year's education and research budget by more than e560 million (Pounds 360 million).
The University of Pisa is offering undergraduates e623 (Pounds 400) a month for "tutoring" activities, which include advising first-year colleagues on choosing courses and finding their way about the...
Week 1 This has been the year of the brain. The shortlist for the Rhone-Poulenc Prize for science writing features books which are either about the mind, or feature remarkable ones. We have already...
The University of Vienna is to introduce Celtic studies to its humanities department in October. It will be the first programme of its kind in Austria, although the subject is recognised as an...
Swansea Institute is to remain independent and seek to join the federal University of Wales. It is therefore not seeking a merger with another institution, as reported in The THES on May 21. We...
Efforts to raise the status of university teaching received a "serious setback" this week, with the announcement that pedagogical research would not be separately assessed in the next research...
Exeter University this week refused to reprieve its threatened centre for women's studies despite vice-chancellor Sir Geoffrey Holland receiving a 1,000- signature petition against its closure,...
One of Europe's leading institutes of legal research is facing "gradual decline" unless it can raise more funds, a report warns. A review committee examining the work of the Institute of Advanced...