The United States government has said that last week's decision by the University of California to abolish race-based admissions may cost the university - one of America's largest and most...
The "frenzied" transfer of top academics in the build-up to the research assessment exercise could backfire on universities, the Higher Education Funding Council for England has warned. Panels will...
(Photograph) - Spirit of the Dock: A passer-by admires Maggie Gregory's sculpture, part of a joint University of East London and London Docklands Development Corporation exhibition called 'Sculpture...
Child prodigy Adam Dent is to return to Oxford after the Director of Public Prosecutions decided he will face no charges arising from claims against him by a female student. Chemistry student Mr Dent...
Imperial College is reversing London's medical brain drain with the appointment of Christopher Edwards, dean of Edinburgh University's faculty of medicine, as principal of its new medical school. The...
Bristol University research into suicide and attempted suicide supports the importance of social policy measures in improving mental health. Researchers in the department of social medicine examined...
There are a good many serious threats to academic freedom in this country, but the tyranny of "theory" is not one of them. If "theory" is about anything it is about opening up spaces for those who...
May I insert one or two conceptual points into the debate on intelligence testing (THES, July 7, 14 ) before it takes off again on predictable lines? Establishing what is intelligence is a conceptual...
The page in The THES allotted to research is, I am sure, generally appreciated by readers. However, I must object to the form of presentation of the article on "skin" (July 7) which was...
The visitor's decision was that the candidate had simply failed to make the grade. On June 30 1995 Mr Justice McPherson, sitting as a visitor to the Inns of Court, dismissed Cecilia Hulse's appeal....
The threat of compulsory redundancies at the University of Derby has resulted in a warning from lecturers' union Natfhe that it will take legal action to protect its members there. The union claims...
The astronomy community is reeling after the announcement of another review of the Royal observatories, which will bring the number of reviews this year to three and continue a chain of studies that...
Retiring Conservative MP George Walden's disillusionment with party politics began during his spell as minister for higher education. Mr Walden, who this week announced his decision not to stand...
An estate agent's dream: hundreds of people have been turning up to view Westerlands, Glasgow University's playing fields which have just been put up for sale. The interest, however, is not so much...