People wanting to keep track of their elected representatives after last week's election now have a helping hand. Students at the University of Cambridge's computer lab have set up a website offering...
A research "laboratory" to investigate bilingualism has opened in Wales. The centre for research on bilingualism in theory and practice at Bangor University will conduct research into how languages...
Leaders of the Scottish tourist industry met to discuss plans for a new degree. The experts met in Inverness to discuss the BA in tourism and hospitality practice planned at the UHI Millennium...
Primary school principals and teachers from Hong Kong visited a British university to study methods to improve the treatment of students with special educational needs. The teachers took part in a...
Scientists hope research into how hammerhead sharks sniff out their prey will influence design for chemical sensors for counter-terrorism, underwater exploration and medicine. Jonathan Cox, a...
Each week, Dr Margot Feelbetter poses a dilemma and offers advice for readers to respond to online. This week: A sociological sermonI don't usually comment on articles in Times Higher Education, but...
King's College LondonJeremy HorderA professor whose academic career blossomed after he decided not to join his father's second-hand car business has been appointed Edmund-Davies chair in criminal law...
Herminio Martins offers a threefold plan to bring order to the 'structural irresponsibility' of academic book reviewing - so dangerous in the present climate
The decline of modern languages in the UK threatens our place in the European conversation, writes Anthony Bushell
Top European Institutions in Molecular BiologyData provided by Thomson Reuters from its Essential Science Indicators database, January 1999-December 2009Euro rankWorld...
More than 250 leading scientists have denounced the escalation of political assaults on climatologists. In an open letter to the journal Science, 255 members of the US National Academy of Sciences...
More incoming MPs are graduates but few have worked in higher education. John Morgan reports
University says it had 'obligation' to boost rolls as it tries to fend off penalty. Melanie Newman writes
Politicians have been urged to draw on the expertise of academic historians to avoid policies guided by "bad history".The History and Policy group, which brings historical insights to bear on current...
Turmoil at LCC heightens fear over 'efficiencies' at the University of the Arts. Rebecca Attwood reports