The 40 per cent reduction in public spending on universities over the next four years will help contribute to the biggest fall in education spending over such a period since the 1950s, a respected...
The first set of figures on university applications for 2012 entry, when the fee cap rises to £9,000, shows a 9 per cent fall compared to the same time last year.
Researchers should not feel obliged to pursue research favoured by prestigious journals, David Willetts has said.
The chair of the council of the University of Wales has stepped down after the education minister called for him to consider his position.
One in five higher education institutions in England is seeking to lower its fee levels to less than £7,500 to bid for additional student places, the Office for Fair Access has said.
The research councils might never recoup the money they have spent on the troubled Shared Services Centre, the National Audit Office has warned in a critical report.
Independent 'citizen scientists' have always existed, says Darrel Ince, and our networked age of fast computing and open access is helping them to flourish - to the greater good of research
Academics from physicists to experts on Scandinavian culture are crafting stand-up comedy routines based on their work. But this is no joke. Matthew Reisz finds that a crowd's laughter is not the...
After so much ado, why not a metabiography of the Bard that explores all his guises? asks Willy Maley
Rivalry with Ivy Leaguers and for-profits is harming the 'squeezed middle', discovers Charles Middleton
Of all the major religions, which in more innocent days were called world religions, Judaism is the most idiosyncratic. Is it a religion, a culture, an ethnicity or a mix? Leora Batnitzky asserts...
Ever since Vera Zasulich shot the governor of St Petersburg in 1878, it has been clear that women could be at least as effective terrorists as men. Since terrorist groups, until recently, have often...
Jon Turney is unconvinced by a theory about how caterpillars grow wings and other transformations
If you've ever wondered why you're addicted to Dan Brown thrillers, passionate about Proust, or obsessed with Pride and Prejudice, Keith Oatley's Such Stuff as Dreams aims to provide an answer.Oatley...
This is an English translation of a book that was first published in Italian four years ago, and that aroused considerable controversy in the author's native Italy.The reasons for the controversy are...