Universities keen to work with their local communities must be properly funded and receive national recognition, a pressure group has claimed in response to the white paper, writes Claire Sanders....
Improved research is key to closing the productivity gap with the US, chancellor Gordon Brown told MPs in his budget speech on Wednesday. He said that two-thirds of the gap was due to underfunded...
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The Office for Fair Access will be the first statutory regulator to oversee any part of the UK higher education system. Yet analysis of the proposals in the Offa document reveals a curiously light-...
Students from 98 nationalities have been writing about their experiences of living and learning in the UK for a new British Council awards scheme supported by The THES. More than 1,700 overseas...
Race and gender have a strong influence on people's perceptions of how fairly they are paid, economists at Warwick University have concluded. In a paper to be presented to the Royal Economic Society'...
Getting intimate with bacterial attractions could help clean contaminated groundwater for drinking, writes Natasha Gilbert. According to US researchers, efforts to put bacteria to work in polluted...
The discovery of a gene responsible for maintaining balance in mice could lead to a therapy to restore loss of balance to the elderly and to astronauts who have experienced zero gravity, writes...
Research into cancer treatments and cures is to be made easier by the creation of a virtual UK tumour bank that was announced this week. The initiative has been developed by the National Cancer...
The Wellcome Trust will take a back seat in funding UK science for the foreseeable future, according to its former director, Mike Dexter, who left in March. Dr Dexter told The THES that the UK...
Mature students and those from certain ethnic groups should choose courses with work experience to overcome prejudice from employers, a conference heard this week. Stephen McNair, head of education...
Commonwealth students could soon find it easier to transfer their studies to other member states if a Commonwealth Secretariat initiative proves successful. The secretariat wants to see a more...
Many business schools are sacrificing academic independence as they pursue research agendas driven by private industry, according to Gibson Burrell, new head of the University of Leicester's...
Graduate apprenticeships have finally received a kite mark from the University Vocational Awards Council and sector skills councils, more than two years after the idea was first mooted. The...
Nurses need better mathematical skills if they are to fulfil roles in a modern health service, a report from the Learning and Teaching Support Network says. Universities should develop a framework...