Brussels, 03 Jul 2003 A second meeting of the EU funded DNA metabolism cluster will take place on 23 September in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The DNA metabolism cluster is an informal network of five...
Use simple journalistic principles to spread the word about complex topics, says Ian Hargreaves How can we do a better job of informing the public about science? This is a question that has become an...
Psychiatrists say universities need screening procedures to identify trainee doctors with mental-health disorders amid fears that many hide problems that pose risks to patients, writes Anna...
Cut-price foundation degrees are being considered as the government struggles to salvage the key plank of its higher education expansion policy in the face of mounting criticism. The government's...
An Oxford University professor who rejected an Israeli student who wanted to study with him because the professor disagreed with Israeli policies is no stranger to thorny ethical issues. Since 1996,...
• Bradford University vice-chancellor Chris Taylor has been elected president of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers. • Sally Neocosmos, chief executive officer of the Higher Education Staff...
Members of Manchester University's "parliament" are threatening to scupper the university's £285 million merger with the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology in protest...
It was a case of now you see them, now you don't, when Bristol University posted then promptly removed about 100 degree results, warning students that an administrative blunder meant their degree...
John Hood, the next vice-chancellor of Oxford University, has said universities must be free to set their own fees but they should do so "responsibly" and with matching access initiatives. In an...
The centenary celebrations for the Rhodes Trust, which included Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton and Tony Blair, were overshadowed this week by complaints from Rhodes scholars that the trust was...
State of history The first in a series of subject reviews Cult figure The appeal of The Wicker Man Walter Benjamin Terry Eagleton reviews his Selected Writings Books focus: Travel
Vice-chancellors want to make it harder for academics to climb the career ladder, trade unions claimed this week. Ahead of next week's crunch talks on new pay structures, lecturers' union Natfhe and...
Official warning of another A-level fiasco The education secretary, Charles Clarke, has been warned that the government could face a repeat of last year’s A-level debacle after a parliamentary select...
Patrick Smith questions the validity of learning outcomes and calls for a more student-sensitive assessment regime. He crane-lifts what appears to be the body of a naked female from the pile hole....
Pat Leon asks a winner at this year's National Teaching Fellowships how she manages. Name: Imogen Taylor Age: Mid-50s, but I started late in academia. I've been at Sussex University for two years....