Students with the highly infectious liver disease hepatitis B may soon be allowed to train as doctors after a review by the Government and universities, The Times Higher can reveal. At the moment...
A "most dreadful" sea monster that was sighted off the coast of Greenland in the 18th century may have been an excited whale with an impressive erection, researchers have revealed, writes Anna...
DONS' DINS The slimming down of the academic lunch
A High Court judge has ruled that animal-rights campaigners can challenge the legality of animal experiments at Cambridge University. On Tuesday, Mr Justice Stanley Burnton gave the British Union for...
The House of Lords' European Union committee has urged the Government to draw up a clear national strategy to make the most of EU education programmes. The EU programme for 2006 to 2013, with a E13.6...
Oxford University has won a contract to help scientists at the Natural Environment Research Council to exploit their research. Isis Enterprise, part of Isis Innovation, Oxford University's technology...
The national pay bargaining system for academics has, in effect, collapsed into a local free-for-all, members of the Association of University Teachers will hear next week. The fragmentation of...
This week's Times Higher boasts a bumper crop of jobs as universities jostle for market position and prepare for the next research assessment exercise. Six higher education institutions have taken...
Feminist fighter: Andrea Dworkin, who died this week, was both revered and disparaged for her radical feminism. She wrote a number of thought-provoking, controversial and spirited book reviews for...
Criticism of the funding council is rife but not everyone is ready to see it go, Anthea Lipsett discovers "Everyone is disenchanted with the research assessment exercise and the funding council,"...
Allegations of anti-Semitism in higher education were brought to the fore this week as three Jewish officers resigned from the National Union of Students and leaders of the faith branded a proposed...
Graduates shouldered an average debt of £13,501 last year - a rise of £1,432 compared with students who left university the year before, writes Paul Hill. Barclays' Annual Graduate Survey found that...
As the party manifestos roll out, Paul Hill analyses the promises and evasions Every political party had the chance to rehearse and refine its higher education policies during last year's debate...
Party political leaders hope that television viewers concentrate on their words and their carefully choreographed delivery as they present their election manifestos. But Geoff Beattie, professor of...
The Conservative Party this week accused Tony Blair of having a secret agenda to raise the cap on top-up fees during the next Parliament. The accusation follows revelations in The Times Higher a...