One of the world's leading cancer researchers, 91-year-old Sir Richard Doll, has said he would be willing to go to prison for breaking one of the many new laws that academics believe are stifling...
The national academic pay system began to crumble this week as leading universities forged ahead with plans to set their own pay levels - despite the strike by the largest academic union. The...
Andrew Wakefield is back in the news after being accused of concealing a potential conflict of interest in his 1998 study purporting to link the measles, mumps and rubella vaccine to autism and bowel...
* Graham Winch , professor of business analysis in the University of Plymouth's Business School, has been made president-elect of the Systems Dynamics Society. He will serve as society president for...
Phil Baty tours the AUT picket lines to look at the effect of the strike action over pay and conditions "Is there a strike?" asked Rigas Oikonomou, a Greek masters' student at the London School of...
Ministers look set to rule out national bursaries or fee waivers for maths undergraduates despite warnings that too few students are studying the subject at uni-versity, The Times Higher has learnt....
Oxford University will be forced to "go private" and charge students Pounds 15,000-plus for courses when the cap on tuition fees is reviewed at the end of the decade, an MP claimed this week. David...
One of the most potent anti-malarial chemicals known to science has been found in the Amazon rainforest, unnoticed by the indigenous people who often fall victim to the disease. University...
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The perennial debate over the way universities receive government research funds was reignited this week amid warnings that the sector is once again "galloping away to disaster". A report on the...
The government's seven research councils have told Treasury officials how their research is likely to develop over the next ten years in response to the long-term science review announced by the...
Firms are far more likely to be innovators if they have links with universities, the most comprehensive survey of innovation in the UK to date has found. Only one in five firms without university...
One in three students drops out of degree courses at further education colleges, quality watchdogs have found. Overworked staff, badly stocked libraries and high student dropout rates are among the...
The introduction of top-up fees threatens to widen the funding gap for teaching between further and higher education to "indefensible" levels, college heads have claimed. They also argue that...
An academic at St Andrews University has been appointed to the diplomatic corps of the Kingdom of Redonda, a tiny uninhabitable island northwest of Montserrat in the Caribbean, which was discovered...