One way to ensure cash for higher education is for each generation to invest in the next, argues Rob Marris Whether top-up fees will have the positive effect on university funding suggested in the...
Britain's best-known female scientist has hit back at her critics after a Nobel laureate attacked her latest book in this week's THES . Philip Anderson begins his review of Oxford professor Susan...
Funding chiefs look set to sidestep the government's controversial proposals for further concentration of research as set out in January's higher education white paper. The move represents a near-...
Nobel laureate Desmond Tutu is about to take up his first academic appointment. The former general secretary of the South African Council of Churches, who was awarded the peace prize in 1984 for his...
High levels of a fungal toxin have been found in organic maize products sold in British shops, prompting top scientists to question the safety of this increasingly popular approach to agriculture....
MPs and charities are calling on the government to ringfence cancer research funding amid fears that millions of pounds that could help find a cure is being spent on red tape. The Department of...
Senior academics at Leeds University have voted in favour of national bargaining, undermining threats by the elite Russell Group, of which Leeds is a member, to set its own pay. The university's...
CRUNCH TIME Unions and employers lock horns in the final meeting on pay ALSO Madeleine Albright talks about her academic and political past in international relations and gives her views on America's...
Bristol University was fighting an outbreak of bacterial meningitis this week after three first years and a second year contracted the disease. All four were admitted to hospital and in a stable...
Sussex University has received a £1.5 million windfall after the Court of Appeal ruled in its favour over a tax case dating back to 1973. Sussex had submitted a claim to recover VAT on overheads...
In last week's THES ("Contract sparks row over IP rights", page 8) we said that Richard Lambert was carrying out a review of Cambridge business links for the Treasury. In fact, his remit is to review...
Thames Valley University is to merge with Reading College to create the UK's most advanced hybrid further and higher education institution. The merged institution, which bills itself as a "vocational...
Academics are demanding changes to draft legislation that could remove them from the ethics committees that decide which medical experiments are carried out in the UK. All National Health Service...
Amartya Sen, master of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a Nobel laureate in economics, this week denounced the Samuel Huntingdon classification of the world into largely religiously defined...
A tracer study of the prestigious Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship plan has found that the overwhelming majority of award holders, 85-90 per cent, return to their home countries as the scheme...