Under UK legislation, children reaching adulthood will, by the end of the decade, be able to ask the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority if they were born through donor conception or are...
John Davies browses through the broadcasting week (all times pm unless stated). Pick of the week "Losing Faith in Science" is the subtitle of Wednesday's The Commission (8.00 R4), in which Vivian...
Before we walked the earth, our planet was subject to abrupt short-lived climate swings. Richard Alley believes that this pattern could begin again. Climate changes, and humans adapt. Through the...
The rector of the Universidad de C"rdoba has become Argentina's education minister after the resignation of Juan Jose Llach. Hugo Oscar Juri said he would puruse his predecessor's reforms. Llach...
Canadian foreign minister Lloyd Axworthy is leaving politics after years in elected office to take up an academic job as director of the new Liu Centre of International Affairs in British Columbia...
South America's first telescope designed to respond to instructions from internet users will be placed in one of the world's optimal sites, near the Argentine town of San Raphael in Mendoza.
Two people died and several were injured in riots in White Nile state, Sudan, when students demonstrated against military conscription. Banks were burnt, the television station attacked and...
The firing of Indiana University's basketball coach has provided fresh evidence that university athletics in the United States has an almost religious status. Bob Knight was sacked after allegedly...
Staff at Northumbria University are to be balloted for industrial action over the threat of about 140 job cuts. A spokesman for lecturers' union Natfhe said there were fears of compulsory...
An article in The THES (September 22, page 18) by Paul Surtees on the lack of female firsts at Cambridge University should have referred to students with high grades at S levels gaining first-class...
January Finish writing a political biography of Nobel prizewinner Dario Fo and decide to translate his play Mum's Marijuana Is the Best. It has never been performed in English before. This is my...
(Photograph) - Royal smiles: staff, students and graduates from Queen Margaret University College process down Edinburgh's Royal Mile to St Giles Cathedral for a celebratory service marking the...
Differential tuition fees were ruled out for the foreseeable future by the higher education minister, Tessa Blackstone, speaking at the Labour Party conference this week. She also hinted that...
Vice-chancellors are getting down to the fine details in their fundamental review of funding for universities, writes Alan Thomson. Draft models of a number of options are almost complete, but...
* More people have been accepted by universities this year, but fears that institutions may not be able to fill places remain. The latest figures show that, as of Wednesday, there were 332,400...