A survey of 220 students at Newcastle University has uncovered widespread opposition to the semesterised academic year. The survey organisers, the students' Courier newspaper, argue that students...
Scotland's only Roman Catholic education college merged yesterday with Glasgow University to create a new faculty of education. Mergers are often seen as an attempt by an ailing institution to seek...
The National Health Service is introducing clinical governance as part of its drive to improve patient care. Julia Hinde reports on what this change will mean for academics This week, some 16 months...
Students are suffering from a climate of "chaos" at the University of East London's communications studies department, according to an "unofficial" newsletter. The anonymous author last month set up...
A senior lecturer was unfairly sacked for complaining about inaccuracies in his colleague's books, a tribunal was due to hear this week. As Whistleblowers revealed last November, Rob Slack, a senior...
A cheap, hand-held device that gives almost instant readings for pollution levels in rivers has been designed by scientists at the University of the West of England. Researchers in the university's...
Dakar Cheik Anta Diop University has been closed indefinitely on the orders of Senegal education minister Andre Sonko after demonstrations in support of demands for extra refectories, halls of...
Bonn Germany is to set up a "Forum for Education" to work out a blueprint for important reforms in schools, higher education and research. It will present its conclusions at the end of 2001. The...
A PhD student at a London hospital is developing a vaccine that she hopes will cut the risk of chicken pox in developing countries and may slash the cases of shingles here and abroad. Uzma Hasan, a...
Monday. Six days to go. Thirteen senior police officers from five northern constabularies and six academics will be meeting for a day of consultation on ethical leadership in the police service....
Fostering ambitions Lib Dem education spokesman Don Foster is stepping down from the Commons education subcommittee after three years to "think about the future of the party". Could this be connected...
Sir John Arbuthnot, 60, principal of Strathclyde University, is to retire at the end of next year after ten years' service. Roderick Floud, vice-chancellor of London Guildhall University, and Howard...
Ronald Barnett, dean of professional development at the Institute of Education, University of London, has been awarded a DLitt (Ed) by the University of London in recognition of his contribution to...
Turkey's universities are an important political barometer - in the 1970s they were the scene of some of the worst clashes between left and right in a period of social unrest that claimed the lives...
The pace of life has quickened up so much that Sheldon Rothblatt asks how academics will cope next century The ultimate Don's Diary belongs to Joseph Romilly, an Anglican clergyman and registrary of...