The THES sent reporter Tony Tysome to Birmingham University to judge whether he thought the applied golf management degree was a Mickey Mouse course. This is how he found it. The materials science...
Applied golf management studies, Birmingham University Former bank manager Jonathan Wright is not the sort of man to take unnecessary risks, so when he decided to take a place on Birmingham's golf...
Surf science and technology, Plymouth University Marine studies lecturer Malcolm Findlay is fed up with politicians who take cheap shots at the degree he helped to create when they have not looked...
Brian Roper has been appointed vice-chancellor of London Metropolitan University, which was created by the merger of the University of North London and London Guildhall University in 2002. Mr Roper,...
Imperial College London will offer annual £1,500 bursaries to 20 student volunteers supporting pupils in local primary and secondary schools. The students will help teach subjects such as science,...
Science minister Lord Sainsbury has agreed to subject himself to regular grillings by the influential Commons' science and technology committee. The committee announced the launch of a "science...
University hospitals have set up a body to represent themselves. The Association of UK University Hospitals will take over from the UK University Hospitals Forum, which has 37 members, and will hold...
Sir Alec Jeffreys, DNA genetic fingerprinting pioneer, is to be given an international accolade. Professor Jeffreys, who is the Royal Society Wolfson professor in the department of genetics at...
Over 150 scientists from 24 countries have signed a letter to Tony Blair in support of colleagues who complained that the GM debate had been mishandled. Signatories, including James Watson, co-...
Five learned societies were this week locked in a High Court dispute with the government over whether they should pay rent on the historic London home they have occupied for over a century. With the...
Academic union leaders and university employers clashed again over pay scales and job evaluation schemes this week, threatening to scupper hopes of bringing the two sides back to the negotiating...
The Association of University Teachers Scotland has called on Scottish university principals to demonstrate their commitment to national pay negotiations by helping to bring the employers back to the...
Men appear to have reached their limit when it comes to housework, with women shouldering more than 70 per cent of household and caring responsibilities, writes Olga Wojtas. Ulster University...
Scotland's higher education minister Jim Wallace tells Olga Wojtas that Scots universities have the edge over their southern counterparts If top-up fees bite the dust in the House of Commons next...
Further education heads, union leaders and politicians have expressed alarm over figures that show that the number of lecturers leaving colleges to take jobs as schoolteachers has more than doubled...