Celia Hoyles, the Government's maths adviser, is keen to inspire more students to do maths and go on to teach it Celia Hoyles does not like the term "czar" to describe her appointment last week as...
* Paul Kerswill , sociolinguist and former senior lecturer at Reading University, has been appointed to a chair in the department of linguistics at Lancaster University. * The Royal Society of...
Report says territorial women, as well as men, keep young female scientists down. Martyn Bull reports. Top female scientists may be partly to blame for the lack of women in senior science jobs...
A £4.1 million UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology launched this week places the UK at the forefront of initiatives to ensure equality for women in science and...
As police in Cambridge search for a mystery graffiti artist with a penchant for chemical imagery, the chief executive of the Royal Society of Chemistry said this week that he would like to spray-...
Thousands of lecturers in new universities could be allowed to draw part of their pension early while continuing to work part time under government proposals for reform of the system. David Miliband...
The Government will increase its spending on higher education by £2 billion between 2004 and 2008, according to official figures. The Department for Education and Skills released information on its...
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Norwich City has become the first football club to receive an honorary degree. The honorary doctorate of civil law from East Anglia University was conferred on the club at half-time in the Canaries'...
Dozens of lecturers may lose their jobs at Brunel University if the institution is to improve its research standing, academics were warned this week. The university is hoping that staff who are less...
The Scottish Executive is expected to drop controversial proposals to classify new universities separately from pre-92 institutions. The executive is expected to unveil its bill next week to merge...
A new website to give prospective students advice about the cost of university study, course options and what undergraduate life is like was launched by Kim Howells, the new Higher Education Minister...
Students are being offered the chance to win a term's rent by a London bookshop. Foyles, which has a shop in Charing Cross Road, will pay £1,500 to the student who has answered three questions about...
London Metropolitan University could lose millions in research funds, threatening jobs, as the union boycott over new staff contracts becomes increasingly bitter. The union is intensifying action...
Kingston University has been served with a court injunction ordering it to stop harassing one of its disabled students. The order made by Kingston upon Thames County Court on September 14, says the...