The renowned scientist Richard Dawkins has religion in his sights, and he pulls no punches in his TV series Richard Dawkins again attacks religion as a major cause of pain and suffering in a new two-...
* Richard Hays has joined Keele University as professor of medical education and head of the medical school. He was previously chair of medical education and foundation dean at James Cook University...
First 'no confidence' vote by quality watchdog goes to private institution led by QAA sceptic. Phil Baty reports Quality watchdogs have privately delivered their first vote of "no confidence" in the...
As South Korea reeled from proof that renowned stem-cell scientist Hwang Woo-Suk faked his major scientific claims, British scientists said that the UK could now lead the world on stem cells. A panel...
Gerry McKenna, the former vice-chancellor of Ulster University, was scheduled to appear in court this week to face a charge of driving under the influence of excess alcohol. It is understood that...
It is the stuff of every frustrated academic's fantasies - but computing professor Richard Bornat is counting the cost of firing off a no-holds-barred e-mail to all his colleagues in which he...
WHO ARE BRITAIN'S RICHEST ACADEMICS? We reveal those who made a mint out of spin-oof, in the first of a three-part series. Plus: Hizb ut-Tahrir on defending freedom of speech
Middlesex University has decided to phase out history because of poor student demand, as part of an effort to save £10 million a year. As The Times Higher reported last month, the department runs a...
Students who annoy their neighbours by playing loud music could be evicted from their homes under proposals in the Government's "respect" agenda to clamp down on antisocial behaviour. The Home Office...
Museums, galleries, libraries and archives will be eligible for government research funding from April, it was announced this week. The National Portrait Gallery and the Tate are among those with "...
Edinburgh University will be the first Scottish institution to take part in the official national student satisfaction survey. In last year's first National Student Survey, 170,000 final-year...
Universities have found collaboration with industry simpler, quicker and easier thanks to a set of model contracts, according to a survey by the Association for University Research and Industry Links...
A survey by the Research Information Network has found that investment of £30 million over six years has brought a change in provision of access to research resources in university libraries. During...
Robert Hazell, director of the Constitution Unit in the department of political science at the University College London, was awarded a CBE for services to constitutional reform.
Oxford and Cambridge universities are to follow in the footsteps of the great industrialists of the past by building homes for their workers. The famous model communities of Bourneville, New Earswick...