Universities would be forced to merge under radical plans to restructure higher education in Wales.Speaking to the Welsh Assembly government yesterday, Leighton Andrews, the education minister, set...
A strict list of rules for scientists to follow when working with animals has been launched in the journal PLoS Biology
Is it enough to demand an original contribution to knowledge or should doctoral candidates also have to show that they have “material suitable for publication” ? asks Tara Brabazon
The Royal Society should offer a brokering service to put politicians in touch with experts at the cutting edge of science, according to Lord Krebs.The former chair of the UK’s Food Standards Agency...
Irene Macías deplores many Britons’ pitiful foreign language skills and employers’ apparent ignorance about its growing importance
WASHINGTON – The situation outlined by Miles J. Postema, vice-president and general counsel of Ferris State University, sounded like a lawsuit waiting to happen. By Scott Jaschik, for Inside Higher Ed
Although Barack Obama’s administration already has major achievements to its credit in healthcare reform and arms reduction, his approval ratings have declined dramatically. An expert on American...
Fundamental academic values, such as free and open debate, are at risk, a leading UK vice-chancellor said this week.Nigel Thrift, vice-chancellor of the University of Warwick, told a conference in...
The 10,000 extra student places for next year have been allocated by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, with newer teaching-focused universities the main beneficiaries.The distribution...
Fifty lecturers and learning-support staff have been recognised for teaching excellence.From a vet whose decision to retrain in computing science helped her transform veterinary education to an...
Fred Inglis strives to hold his nerve in the midst of a dizzying, recondite tour of the apocalypse
Helen Fenwick on a useful review of the ailing state of UK civil liberties, from common law to kettling
Cornelie B., born in 1890, was first arrested for prostitution in 1907. After numerous encounters with the police and internments in various institutions, her last recorded interview with the...
Christopher Hill (1912-2003) was an astonishingly prolific historian and for a time the dominant figure in the recent historiography of the "English Revolution" of the 17th century, a concept he did...
The Antipodean shenanigans of an identity fraudster who impersonated an aristocrat were a gift for historian Kirsten McKenzie, writes Matthew Reisz