John Thurburn is working with the Met Office to improve forecasting in this highly unpredictable area As scientists gathered in Exeter this week for a climate change summit, Exeter University...
* City University, London, has appointed Peter Kunzlik professor and director of the Institute of Law. He will succeed Martin Dockray in March. Professor Kunzlik is currently dean of Nottingham...
Proof that Bristol University systematically favours candidates from disadvantaged backgrounds over privileged pupils has been uncovered by The Times Higher . Admissions tutors have been told to...
Scientists responded with disdain this week as the Royal Institution confirmed that its flagship Christmas Lectures would be screened on Five - the television channel made famous by its staple diet...
Researchers fed up with the British winter may soon have their heads turned by a smiling US academic with access to billions of dollars of research cash, writes Anna Fazackerley. Robert Dynes,...
The return of polytechnic-style colleges was proposed by the Conservatives this week, more than a decade after then-Education Secretary Ken Clarke abolished them under a Tory government. On Thursday...
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Janet Paraskeva is not a name usually mentioned in higher education circles. But vice-chancellors would do well to sit up and take note, writes Claire Sanders. Later this month the Law Society, of...
The Law Society is proposing a radical reorganisation of legal education that could see the end of popular - and, for universities, highly lucrative - law courses. The future of the obligatory...
The value of university spin-off companies floated on the stock market has outstripped, in just one year, the Government's entire spend on "knowledge transfer" activities. Companies based on the...
The UK's new agency for promoting best practice among academics faces potential embarrassment after inviting an Australian academic accused of bullying to speak at its inaugural conference. Craig...
Cherie Booth, the Prime Minister's wife, may be dragged into an escalating industrial dispute at Liverpool John Moores University. The LJMU branch of lecturers' union Natfhe last week unanimously...
Manchester University this week unveiled plans to offer scholarships worth up to £5,000 a year to well-qualified students from low-income families applying next year for degree course places. The...
The creation of Cumbria University came a step closer this week with the appointment of Sir Martin Harris, the director of the Office for Fair Access, to oversee the next stage of development. Sir...
Scotland has won a 5 per cent increase in cash awarded under the Science Research Investment Fund, amounting to £103 million, or 12.2 per cent of the available UK money. Edinburgh University has won...