UK companies still lag behind their international competitors in research and development spending, according to the latest figures from the Department of Trade and Industry. And there are signs that...
Giant belches from the deep could have claimed the lives of many unfortunate mariners. Scientists have found that a single bubble of methane erupting from the sea-bed could swallow a ship and send it...
The proposals to change the way teaching is funded at English universities will cost science £22 million, according to pressure group Save British Science. The plans, developed by the Higher...
Britain must act to avert the crisis facing Islamic and Middle Eastern studies, politicians were told this week, writes Alison Goddard. Minority interests vital to the nation are inadvertently being...
Men go to university to play hard whereas women go to study hard, so it's not surprising that males are now being outshone on campus as well as at school. Alison Goddard reports on the latest...
Nicole Harris, 26 Job advertised, THES, January 24 2003 JISC Programme Manager The Joint Information Systems Committee, based at King's College London, was seeking a programme manager for its...
You may know your subject inside out, but to teach well you must engage with the student, argues Alan Mortiboys. You can get into a lot of trouble by using the word "emotions" in some academic...
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage. Name : Paul May Age : 39 Job : Senior lecturer, Bristol University School of Chemistry. Qualifications : BSc Chemistry (...
Funding council officials were accused of gambling with the international reputation of British higher education this week by confirming plans to force all higher education institutions to "wash...
Exeter University has been ordered to pay almost £63,000 to a PhD student who abandoned his research into assisted suicides after a dispute with his departmental ethics committee over the...
The former head of Nasa is locked in a battle with the trustees of Boston University over his appointment as its president, writes Steve Farrar. Daniel Goldin, who was Nasa administrator for nine...
The problem with too much reflection on your practice is that it can make you worse, not better, at what you do "We live, I regret to say, in an age of surfaces." That, at least, was the opinion of...
Week one I board a plane to San José to join the German research vessel FS Sonne . With me will be 19 geophysicists and biologists from 11 countries. I depart the UK with high hopes. Unfortunately...
Spotted in the online version of Varsity , Cambridge University's student newspaper: "For sale: hot air balloon basket. Excellent condition. Disabled access. One previous, highly intelligent owner."...
His name was Varma, Sushant Varma, but not any more: it's Bond, James Bond. Race campaigner Dr Varma - or Dr Bond as he now wishes to be known - has changed his name by deed poll to that of the...