Washington, 05 Nov 2004 Press release, November 4, 2004 A collection of 1,490 coral reef images has become the basis for a new Internet- based library for the Millennium Coral Reef Project. It was...
Historians fear crank calls over freedom act Fears are growing that a flood of requests from cranks and obsessives seeking information will prevent civil servants from dealing with normal...
Oxford and Cambridge universities are the only challengers to US domination of the leading places in the first global ranking of universities to sample the views of academics across the world....
Researchers from two of the top ten universities in today's global ranking may be drawn into a legal battle over the flying habits of homing pigeons. The Times Higher reported in February that Oxford...
Terry Babcock-Lumish splits her time between politics and academe, saying that research must inform policy Terry Babcock-Lumish will be disappointed that John Kerry has lost the US presidential...
* Mike Cook , professor and associate dean at St Bartholomew in the School of Nursing and Midwifery at City University, has been appointed to the new post of dean of Anglia Polytechnic University's...
Study reveals disparity in how universities calculate degree classes. Phil Baty reports Students at some universities can obtain first-class degrees with average marks of little more than 50 per cent...
Graduates' performance across every element of their degree courses would be revealed under proposals to replace the traditional degree classifications of first, second and third-class honours,...
The hunt is on for what could be the UK's first dedicated plagiarism researcher as part of a joint project by two UK universities to find out how culture impacts on the decision of overseas students...
Postgraduate supplement The first major overview of postgraduates in a decade PLUS Derrida deconstructed by writers including Richard Rorty, Simon Critchley and Simon Blackburn
The Science Minister, Lord Sainsbury, admitted this week that the Government had not yet succeeded in tackling the culture of short-term contracts in academia. Members of the House of Commons Science...
Tuition fees, widening participation and the debate over research funding have turned the UK into a laboratory for overseas professionals to learn about managing higher education. Four experienced...
The chance to unravel the complexity of managing universities drew Kimberly Stepan to sign up for an MBA in London even though she works at a top US university. For the past three years, Ms...
More than 2,000 technical and administrative staff at London universities may take industrial action over what they claim is a whitewash by employers over rising living costs in the capital. Members...
Ronald Milne, the acting director of library services at the Oxford University and the man responsible for trying to juggle increasingly expensive journal subscriptions and a shrinking budget, is "...