When David Clary takes over as president of Magdalen College, Oxford, he plans to focus on access and finance Oxford University colleges risk Laura Spence-style admissions rows every year, David...
* The Arts and Humanities Research Board and the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council have appointed a director for their first collaborative initiative, Designing for the 21st Century...
Academics are losing control over student admissions as a series of universities look set to transfer responsibility for recruitment to central administrators, The Times Higher can reveal. In a...
Students are to be offered less choice at Anglia Polytechnic University from 2006 as the number of course options will be cut from 2,000 to 500. David Tidmarsh, the vice-chancellor, said the move...
A Nobel prizewinning scientist has clashed with one of Britain's leading experts on the paranormal in a row over the purported talents of a Russian schoolgirl who claims she uses X-ray vision to...
Wheels of fortune Lisa Jardine assesses technology's impact on history Coming soon The Poppleton Awards for Notorious Teachingand Scholarship
New guidelines about how universities should deal with a meningitis outbreak have been issued amid warnings that first-year students are most at risk. Universities UK said that 2,000 cases of...
Welsh vice-chancellors have warned that top-up fees may be inevitable in Wales to stop academics fleeing universities for better funded English institutions. Higher Education Wales, which represents...
Sir Brian Fender, chairman of commercialisation company BTG and former chief executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England, is leading an initiative to formalise the knowledge-...
The City of Edinburgh's battle against disease and illness over the past 100 years is the subject of a book launched at Edinburgh University this week. Public Health: Past, Present and Future was...
Snogging on the back seat of the local cinema is just one of the cherished memories being recorded by Christy Evans as part of a University of Central Lancashire community arts project. Now Ms Evans...
A national system allowing students, academics and employers to measure and compare degree performance should be in place by the end of the decade, Charles Clarke, the Education Secretary, has said....
A researcher accused of "playing into the hands" of paedophiles with a PhD thesis describing positive experiences of sex between children and adults is a former teacher who was struck off the...
Jeremy Deller, the artist who won this year's Turner prize, paid tribute to his former Sussex University tutor, David Mellor, this week, writes Caroline Davis. "David was the reason I came to Sussex...
Two Oxford University student journalists who were suspended after they hacked into the university's computer system to expose security flaws have had their punishments reduced on appeal, writes Phil...