Our most likely modern experience of live-in servants is with the nanny, subject of countless horror stories at dinner parties. Working and living in someone else's home puts both employee and...
There is a story that in 1930 the great mathematician John von Neumann emerged from a seminar delivered by Kurt Gödel saying: "It's all over." Gödel had just proved the two theorems about the logical...
When General Charles Gordon was sent to evacuate Egyptian troops from Sudan in the face of a revolt in 1884, he decided instead to march to Khartoum and go on the offensive.Since the British...
Online lectures are no substitute for face-to-face contact, argues UCU. Melanie Newman reports
Review recommends behaviour change at all levels of the institute. Melanie Newman writes
The academy has long fretted over the use of government buzzwords and business jargon when discussing the rarefied world of higher education.But it seems they can now stop worrying about the effect...
Up to 100 jobs are to be axed at Aberystwyth University following a major restructuring of its biology department.The university's Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences is in...
V-cs may copy London South Bank and opt for local pay deals. Melanie Newman reports
Rick Trainor tells staff 'wise heads' fear sector may suffer reductions of up to 30%, writes John Morgan
Universities' London-based ventures cause unions to caution about conditions. John Morgan reports
Welsh universities are facing a cut in recurrent funding of more than 3 per cent next year.In a letter to universities, the Higher Education Funding Council for Wales confirms that recurrent grant...
Joint research service launched to support work in 'islands' and challenge elite. Zoë Corbyn writes
Science funding'Not possible' to reverse cutsAdam Afriyie, the Conservative Shadow Science Minister, has sought to clarify his comments that major science budget cuts are "inevitable" whichever party...
A robot that can be programmed to exhibit the symptoms of a range of medical conditions is being used to help train pharmacists at the University of Bath. The SimMan 3G robot, named "Simon", is life-...
Some of the UK's best amateur boxers met at The Robert Gordon University earlier this month when the institution played host to the British and Irish Universities and Hospitals Boxing Association...