One of Britain's leading law professors has been reprimanded for "misconduct" by an inquiry into alleged discrimination at the Hong Kong university where he is on secondment from Warwick University....
The Scottish Higher Education Funding Council has just held its 100th council meeting but chairman Chris Masters hopes it will not survive to see its bicentenary. The Scottish Executive has promised...
The National Union of Students this week lurched to the left with a return to its historic support for universal grants paid for through progressive taxation. Delegates to the NUS annual conference...
Vice-chancellors are suppressing free speech and curtailing academic freedom in the debate over war in Iraq, lecturers' leaders claim, writes Phil Baty. A proposed motion to the Association of...
Welsh universities and colleges will receive a real-terms increase of less than 1 per cent next year, threatening to cast them further adrift from their English and Scottish counterparts. The 0.85...
Swansea University academics have threatened action over plans to transfer them to Swansea Institute as part of the push to "reconfigure" Welsh higher education, writes Tony Tysome. The university...
Education secretary Charles Clarke this week opened a £4 million complex of laboratories at the University of Greenwich, Medway. The facilities include laboratories for sports science, materials...
Russian-language students and graduates from University College London's School of Slavonic and Eastern European Studies are demanding that plans to change the status of two lecturers should be...
A consortium led by Leicester Medical School is hoping to help reshape the National Health Service after winning £250,000 to train the next generation of health education managers. Project leader...
Freedom Evolves
This week's competition, in which you have to identify a book from its opening sentence, is from the progenitor of the "stream of consciousness" novel: "I wish either my father or my mother, or...
To Reach the Clouds
Beyond the Rubicon
Reckoning with Risk
England's Elizabeth