The Higher Education Funding Council for Wales is likely to resist following England's move towards greater concentration of research funding, its senior officials have said. Instead, it may continue...
Most academics are committed to both teaching and research activities and the synergy between the two informs their work, a conference heard this week. Chris Webster, professor of urban planning at...
Red tape delays cancer cures, researchers say The search for cures for cancer and other diseases is being strangled by red tape from Brussels and Westminster, scientists from Cancer Research UK said...
Politicians' jibes about the contrast between highly paid plumbers and unemployable graduates have led to a boom in applications for plumbing courses. Colleges were flooded with inquiries after media...
Academics will sacrifice the chance of a decent pay rise if they fail to back the government over top-up fees, higher education minister Alan Johnson said this week. In his first major interview, Mr...
Astronomer royal Sir Martin Rees established his name in the firmament of outspoken UK academics when he became the first scientist to address the Labour Party Conference in Brighton three years ago...
Dave Berger, senior counsellor at the University of Hull, has been elected to serve as chair elect for 2003-04 (following on as chair for two years from 2004-06) of the Association for University and...
The labour movement resoundingly rejected the government's plans to introduce university top-up fees and to concentrate research funding this week. In a clear sign of the rough ride ahead for the...
Think-tank chief Matthew Taylor has been recruited to give momentum to the Blair government as the new No. 10 policy adviser, as Labour begins trawling for ideas for its next election manifesto....
Scotland risks losing research teams and overseas students if English universities end up with proportionally better funding after the white paper proposals, Andrew Cubie has warned. Dr Cubie, whose...
Academics too often take the view that the strategic goals of their university are nothing to do with them and work instead to their own agendas, vice-chancellors were told this week. Universities UK...
HE Trends 2003 Student numbers, government funding and projections, and degree classes. Plus, coverage of the OECD Education at a Glance 2003 report - how does the UK compare? Also Ian Wilmut reviews...
As UUK meets this week, Claire Sanders looks at 'non-aligned' institutions. The power of "non-aligned" universities, those that sit firmly outside bodies such as the Coalition of Modern Universities...
Top-up fees are a tool for social justice insists new higher education minister Alan Johnson, who left school at 15. In his first major interview, he tells Alan Thomson how they will crowbar working-...
This year's THES /Oxford University Press science writing prize was won by Richard Hayward, paediatric neurosurgery consultant at Great Ormond Street Hospital in London. His winning entry appears in...