Students will use computers in exams within ten years because of the changes technology is bringing to assessment in universities, a leading educational technologist has predicted. Tim O'Shea, vice-...
Moves in the European Parliament that could have outlawed experiments on cloned human embryo cells in the UK have been defeated. The Human Tissues Directive was passed by MEPs on Tuesday. Opponents...
The world's largest computing grid is to be formed in the UK, backed by Pounds 16 million from the Particle Physics and Astronomy Research Council. A prototype grid has been running across ten UK...
The founding director of the Centre for Commonwealth Education at the University of Cambridge is Christopher Colclough, who heads the international monitoring team for Education for All. Professor...
New figures from the Learning and Skills Council show increases in the number of students in further education. Between 2001-02 and 2002-03 there was a 1 per cent increase in the number of further...
British scientists will be hoping to catch some of the primordial stuff of our solar system as the new year begins when the space probe Stardust flies through the comet Wild 2. Tony McDonnell and...
Media studies is so tainted by its reputation as the archetypal "Mickey Mouse" subject it should consider rebranding itself under another name, according to one of the field's leading academics,...
Pay talks ended in acrimony this week with the Association of University Teachers declaring a formal dispute and promising "damaging" industrial action early next year. The AUT confirmed it would be...
They are the programmes that make you weep, wail and gnash your teeth, possibly on the remote control. Nearly 1,700 votes were cast in The THES 's poll to find the TV show that you think is the most...
A bidding war among universities seeking to host one of more than 70 Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning will begin in the new year amid claims that the policy is dangerously divisive....
Scottish higher education needs up to £350 million more if it is to remain one of the major hopes for Scotland's economic regeneration, according to principals. Universities Scotland's draft...
As the nation prepares to stuff itself with monster portions of turkey next week, palaeontologists will set about proving an intriguing proposition - that the turkey is really a dinosaur. Members of...
Students at Leeds University are being offered the chance to ponder the meaning of life under the institution's plans to offer spirituality modules across its entire undergraduate curriculum. The...
The secretive world of the alchemist has been revealed by the first scientific analysis of a 16th-century laboratory. Dozens of pieces of equipment used in the quest for the philosopher's stone are...
Lust has for too long been unfairly maligned. Far from being a sin, it should be celebrated as a virtue, argues Simon Blackburn When, 18 months ago, I was asked to give a public lecture on one of the...