Chris Brink, vice-chancellor, Newcastle University According to Chris Brink, some academics are "lumpers", putting things together, and some academics are "splitters", taking things apart. "I'm a...
Australian academics are helping a woman discover why she cannot remember faces. The team at Queensland, Macquarie and La Trobe universities were approached by the woman, who cannot recognise people...
Campaigns are under way at more than 100 US universities pressing them to end their investment in war-torn Sudan. The campaign group Sudan Disinvestment Taskforce said that 54 universities had...
Obese girls are only half as likely to go to university as their thinner peers, a new study has found. The research from the University of Texas at Austin found that obese girls were even less likely...
After nearly eight decades, Harvard University is returning a set of 18 bells to a Russian monastery. The bells, which came from Danilovsky monastery outside Moscow, were purchased from the Soviet...
Smoking is associated with early menopause, a new study from Norwegian researchers has found. The team at Oslo University and the Norwegian Institute of Public Health said current smokers had a...
Drivers carrying passengers are 60 per cent more likely to have an accident requiring hospital treatment, Australian researchers have found. A team at Sydney University said passengers could distract...
A professor who referred to some of the victims of the World Trade Center terrorist attacks as "little Eichmanns" has been sacked for academic misconduct. Ward Churchill, professor of ethnic studies...
US senators have voted to create a price index that will identify universities with the biggest rises in tuition fees. An amendment to the Higher Education Act 1965 proposes forming a higher...
A US university is considering whether to accept funding from tobacco companies. The University of California is attempting to find a compromise between academic freedom to accept research funding...
The Council of Ministers plans to fund an EU technology institute. Keith Nuthall and Christopher Jones report When the idea of creating a European Institute of Technology (EIT) was tabled by the...
Dominic Sandbrook bemoans the prejudice facing academics who want to write for a wider audience Six years ago, as a nervous young lecturer at a big provincial university, I went to inform my head of...
I have just read two documents written in 1991, the year of the Major Government's White Paper on Higher Education. The authors, from very different points on the political spectrum, both vehemently...
We must seek out those who really need help gaining qualifications, argues Jim Hillage For too long, the Government has been subsidising training and skills development that would have happened...
Glasgow University this week is facing an influx of self-described Tarts, a group of female fans of the actor Gerard Butler, who starred as King Leonidas in the film 300 . The Tarts are on a tour of...