The UK's biggest physics group will be led by Ian Halliday, who expects peer pressure to raise standards Ian Halliday, who stood down in March as chief executive of the Particle Physics and Astronomy...
*The Council of Gresham College has appointed Michael Mainelli , executive chairman and founder of Z/Yen Limited as the Mercers' School memorial professor of commerce from August 1 for a three-year...
The Treasury is privately planning to claw back a significant proportion of the science funding that it committed in its much-vaunted ten-year review of science last summer, The Times Higher has...
Funding council chiefs will next week play down talk of subjects in crisis while leaving the door ajar for limited Government intervention to protect "strategically important" subjects. Seven months...
Poem about Frances Howard's marriage to Robert Carr A page, a knight, a viscount and an Erle All foure weare wedded to one lustfull girle A match well made, for shee was likewise foure A wife, a...
Hundreds of libellous poems about murder, corruption and thunderous farting in Parliament have been brought into the open for the first time in 400 years by an academic at Exeter University, writes...
The film, the fiction and the fact 'Not escapist fantasies, but works of art with unique relevance for our times' - Arthur C. Clarke on The War of the Worlds and the new Penguin Wells
Moves to implement the most dramatic reform of lecturers' pay and careers for decades faced potential collapse at more than 80 post-1992 universities and colleges this week as lecturers' union Natfhe...
Cutting university bureaucracy could save enough money to pay for "one or two" extra academics in every institution in the UK, the head of Britain's red-tape watchdog said this week. The Higher...
The men and women who work as support staff to keep Britain's universities running are harassed, overworked and among the lowest paid public sector employees in the country, according to a survey,...
A senior manager at the BBC has accused the London School of Economics of a "conflict of interest" over its links with a Greek business magnate. Bill Hayton, who manages the BBC World Service's 12...
Students will join pigeons, lions and a 19th-century naval hero as residents of one of London's most famous spots next year under plans to turn offices in Trafalgar Square into halls of residence,...
Talks to end the 14-month industrial dispute at London Metropolitan University collapsed this month when Brian Roper, the vice-chancellor, insisted on nine "non-negotiable" principles to take to the...
Some 2,000 staff and students have joined a campaign to stop University College London contracting out its refectory serv ices to Scolarest, the catering firm that gained notoriety for serving food...
Opposition party leaders in the Welsh Assembly have struck a deal with the ruling Labour Government over proposals to introduce top-up fees in Wales from 2007. Under the agreement, which had yet to...