Housewives and manual workers may be better at popular quiz shows than academics, according to a recent study. Whether it's Who Wants to be a Millionaire ? or The Weakest Link , non-academics are at...
Supposedly unpopular academic departments facing the axe or drastic reorganisation at Durham University have recruited very strongly for next year, according to predictions based on likely A-level...
The new national Health Protection Agency has pledged to step up research in a bid to tackle new waves of infectious disease such as the recent Sars epidemic. The agency, formed in April, brings...
Cambridge University academics may seek a ballot to break the deadlock over changes to intellectual property ownership, despite new proposals put forward by one of Britain's leading IP academics and...
"Self-healing" computers could be the answer for hard-pressed IT support staff, according to Ulster University computing expert Roy Sterritt. Mr Sterritt of UU's School of Computing and Mathematics...
Good-practice guidelines for institutions running research degree programmes should be established as the minimum standard required by quality watchdogs, the National Postgraduate Committee has...
Employers rate groupwork skills highly, yet students do not see the point. But why are they so hostile and how can tutors foster the idea that teamwork benefits everyone? asks Peter Levin Come on,...
What is your experience of teaching? Pat Leon asks teachers how they manage Name: Rosa Michaelson Age: 47 Job: Fellow in business computing, accountancy and business finance, University of Dundee....
Five A levels is too many, says Cambridge Cambridge University dampened the celebrations of thousands of A-level students yesterday by urging them not to amass too many A grades. (The Times) Bumper...
The government is seeking new members for its main science, engineering and technology advisory body. Science minister Lord Sainsbury, making the announcement, said interested individuals from...
King's College London made history this week by announcing that it has generated and kept alive the first human embryonic stem (hES) cells in the UK. Researchers at the college's neuroscience...
Vietnam's reigning beauty queen has been kidnapped in an apparent bid to prevent her taking up a place at Luton University next month, writes Phil Baty. Eighteen-year old Miss Vietnam, Pham Thi Mai...
Three academics at University College Cork are considering legal action after they turned up to work to find that the management had changed the locks on their office doors and hired a removals firm...
The vice-chancellor of Oxford University has confirmed that Andrew Wilkie - the academic at the centre of a row for refusing to consider an Israeli doctoral candidate for a place in his laboratory -...
Chester College and King Alfred's College, Winchester, have won approval from the Privy Council for taught-degree-awarding powers. Both institutions hope to meet new criteria for the title of...